St Joseph’s pupils help launch National Spring Clean campaign
THE NATIONAL Spring Clean campaign is Ireland’s largest and longest running anti-litter campaign.
In 2018 the initiative celebrates its 20th Year and to celebrate this milestone in South Dublin County the students and staff of St Joseph’s Special School assisted the Mayor of South Dublin County Council Cllr Paul Gogarty launch the initiative in Tymon park on Wednesday.
At the launch Mayor Cllr Paul Gogarty commented: “ National Spring Clean is about communities coming together to tackle litter and encourages individuals and groups to get involved in local clean-up events. This year National Spring Clean is celebrating its 20th anniversary, with the project going from strength to strength each year and it’s remarkable that volunteers across communities have contributed over 10 million hours of their time to date!”
Mayor Gogarty continued “I would like to encourage everyone in the County to take part in the National Spring Clean, to spread the word by using An Taisce’s hashtag ‘#springclean18’ and to post photos using the #SpringClean18 hashtag to social media platforms. You can also tag the campaign on Twitter using @NationalSpringC, and on Instagram using @nationalspringclean”.
National Spring clean is organised by An Taisce and supported by South Dublin County Council who help co-ordinate clean-up activities for communities in the County and organise for the disposal of all rubbish and waste materials collected. All those wishing to take part in the campaign should register on www.nationalspringclean.org or phone 01 4002219.
In addition to the materials supplied by National Spring Clean, local groups who wish to carry out local environmental enhancements, can avail of support materials through the Council’s Social Credits Scheme which supports volunteers with clean up supplies, as well as materials to start up community gardens and much more. Groups can also avail of Green Dog Walker pledge cards which encourage all dog owners to take responsibility for their dogs while out in the community. In addition an “Adopt a Bring Bank” initiative has been recently rolled out. For more information on these initiatives please visit www.sdcc.ie or www.socialcredits.ie
