If you want to help us keep the city looking clean and tidy, one of the ways you can do so is by picking up litter. You can do this as an individual or by creating a local group.
By creating a local group you’ll be meeting like-minded people and getting to know your neighbours.
The benefits of getting involved in community litter picking include:
- working together with others in your community you will harness local support for cleaning up litter
- taking action on an issue that you care about
- creating a nicer, cleaner and better-looking environment
- fresh air!
Protective clothing and equipment
When picking up litter, you should always wear or use:
- reflective orange high-visibility waistcoats
- litter pickers to avoid direct contact with litter and repetitive bending
- gloves to minimise contact with any dangerous materials
- suitable footwear and clothing
Litter picking kits
If you want to organise a litter pick, we can lend you equipment including tools, gloves, bags and high-visibility vests.
We offer kits in batches of five for adults and children. At least one adult aged 18 or older must take part in your litter pick.
There is no charge for borrowing the equipment. You will need to arrange to collect it from us between 9am and 3pm, Monday to Friday. We’ll provide directions when we confirm the loan, as well as health and safety guidance, and instructions on how to report full bags of litter for collection,
We will only lend kits for litter picks in Cambridge. We can suggest a location within the city if you do not have anywhere specific in mind for your pick. If you are planning to use the kit outside the city boundary, please contact the relevant council.
Litter collection
Tell us if you have taken part in a litter pick in Cambridge and need us to collect full bags.
We can only collect bags within the city boundary.
