Stockport MP backs charity’s million-mile mission to clean up lockdown litter

Navendu Mishra backs the Great British Spring Clean.

Locked down, everyone has come to rely on  green spaces close to home, which has become our significant somewhere to escape, exercise and play.

Keep Britain Tidy, Britain’s favourite environmental charity, is asking everyone to pledge to do their bit to clear up the litter that blights these places. As the Member of Parliament for Stockport, I am supporting Keep Britain Tidy in their campaign. 

The campaign, which runs from 28 May – 13 June 2021, calls on the public to pledge to clean-up and help the charity achieve a million miles of litter-picking. 

This year’s campaign comes as the charity has reported a massive increase in the number of people who have started litter-picking during the various lockdowns. It has seen the number of #LitterHeroes grow by a third in less than 12 months.

The Great British Spring Clean, now in its sixth year, brings together individuals, community organisations, businesses and councils to make a difference to the environment on our doorstep. In 2019, more than half a million #LitterHeroes collected just under a million bags of litter, weighing around 4,308 tons.

If you’re interested, pledge to get involved today at www.keepbritaintidy.org/gbspringclean