Website launched to help local authorities curb littering

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The environmental charity Hubbub has launched a new website to help local authorities and other organisations combat litter.
 
Artwork for posters and bins, audience insights and ideas for litter interventions are just some of the free tools available on the site which is designed to guide organisations on how to deliver a successful litter campaign in their local area. 

In addition, McDonald’s has provided funding for five grants of £10,000 to be made available to councils, to help subsidise funding already in place.
 
Littering continues to be a nationwide issue, despite research from Hubbub revealing that 62 per cent of people feel angry when they see litter on the ground and two in five find it frustrating that there aren’t more bins or campaigns to tackle litter.  
 
Hubbub said they hope to address the problem through the new website which has been developed, drawing on the charity’s eight years of experience in delivering successful, strategic litter interventions in a range of environments. 
 
Packed with ideas and tools to help others develop litter busting interventions, the website will share the successes and learnings from previous campaigns from Hubbub.
 
This includes the campaign Neat Streets which is delivered in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole to tackle litter on beaches using drone technology and AI.

As well as this, the campaign Love Your Forest uses creative methods to reduce woodland litter in the Forest of Dean.

Ballot Bin is another campaign included, and is the world’s first customisable voting ashtray, proven to cut cigarette litter by up to 73 per cent. There are now over 5,000 Ballot Bins in 43 countries, saving an estimated 15 million cigarette butts from being littered a year. 

Gavin Ellis, director and co-founder at Hubbub said: “We have a wealth of experience in tackling specific types of litter in very targeted environments and are delighted to share our learnings with organisations wanting to develop litter-busting initiatives in their local area. 

"Equipped with public polling, audience insights and a library of creative assets and tools, we hope to provide inspiration for the best tactics to use and are thrilled to also offer funding to support this.”