In 2024, we are marking a big milestone. It's 25 years of National Spring Clean, and as we build up to Earth Day on 22 April we are calling on schools to take part! We have all the details on how your class can imorive your local area.
National Spring Clean is the biggest and longest-running anti-litter campaign in Ireland - established in 1999. Did you know that over the past 25 years, volunteers who joined the campaign removed an estimated 47,500 tonnes of litter collected? That's approximately the weight of 450 blue whales!
How to get involved
To mark the celebrations, let's make the 2024 campaign is the biggest and most impactful yet. Clean Coasts and Green-Schools are teaming up with National Spring Clean, to host flagship Earth Day clean- ups on the week starting Monday, 22 April.
Register for a clean-up kit here!
If your school is signed up for Spring Clean 24, but you haven’t picked a date yet, why not choose a date between 22nd and 26th April? Even Earth Day itself?!
Over the past 24 years, through the National Spring Clean:
- Over 90,000 clean-ups have been organised
- 47,500 tonnes of litter have been removed
- 12 million hours of work have been put in by volunteers
Ireland's largest anti-litter campaign, the National Spring Clean is operated by the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce in partnership with Local Authorities and supported by the Department of Environment, Communications and Climate Environment and Mars Wrigley Ireland.
It is supported by Local Authorities who help co-ordinate clean-up activities for communities within their counties and the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. Local authorities also provide for the disposal of all rubbish and waste materials collected.
