Organised by the Climate Coalition, the Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature.
In 2023, the Great Big Green Week saw more than a quarter of a million people get involved, representing national organisations, institutions, businesses and media outlets. This year, the Great Big Green Week has taken place between the 8th and 16th June with the focus of 2024 being on celebrating ‘swaps’.
Compass QMS has engaged with this excellent initiative and we have swapped office time for litter picking on our local waterway, the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. Many of our followers will know that this is an environment close to our hearts; it offers our local community a fantastic, accessible blue space for health and wellbeing, in addition to providing an active navigation within the UK’s canal network. In the words of the Canal and River Trust, ‘Making life better by water’.
As a result of our efforts, we collected numerous bags of rubbish from both the water and the adjoining towpath comprising glass and plastic bottles, drink and aerosol cans, deflated helium balloons and discarded vapes. A good afternoon’s work!