Environment
Establish litter picking days across the District in partnership with the Rangers.
- Provide more recycle bins around schools and youth clubs.
- Promote "friends of" schemes in parks and rural settings working on clean ups and traditional crafts such as stone walling.
ENCAMS is the organisation which runs the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, and manages a number of local environmental quality
programmes such as the Blue Flag for beaches and Eco-Schools.
In early 2002 ENCAMS commissioned Marketing Works, a market research agency,to carry out face-to-face focus groups and interviews with 13 to 16 year-old children. The research objective was to understand their littering behaviour and try to see if there were common attitudes that emerged, particularly in relation to the following:
• their opinions of litter;
• why they litter and how often;
• their perception of the effectiveness of current
anti-litter measures at school;
• their reactions to a range of litter-related stimuli;
• their general views on anti-litter measures.
Below is their report.
Environment Group News
Bulb Planting at Dalton Park
25/11/06 by Stuart Ellis and Stephen Gibney Shotton Hall School
On the 25th of September 2006 a wide variety of people took part in a bulb-planting event at Dalton Park.
Young people from various organisations, e.g. the youth Forum and East Durham Partnership, all gathered to plant yellow daffodil bulbs on a hill to the left of the shopping centre itself.
We asked Karen, aged 15 how hard the event was, her reply was;
“It wasn’t hard, it was actually quite fun”
Many people said that they enjoyed getting dirty and planting the ‘beautiful bulbs’and the work effort was amazing.
Everyone worked quite quickly and was finished within a couple of hours.
Stuart aged 12 said, “I heard about the event through the youth forum.” All together, there was 5 to 6 thousand bulbs to plant but we managed no problem, with a bit of help from our trusty metal friends, the spade!
