During the 2018 Great Plastic Pick Up, the Daily Mail offered an incredible series of prizes — £10,000 each to three communities, to be spent on transforming their areas.
The prizes were fiercely contested, with 726 groups making an entry.
While it was hard to make their decision, the judges decided to award one prize to an inner-city group in Staffordshire and another to a beach in Cornwall.
Young volunteers clean up their patch in Cheshire for this year's campaign. During last year's campaign, we offered an incredible series of prizes to clean-up groups- and here's how they used the money to transform their lives
The third went to a beauty spot in South Wales. There was also a special award for the top litter-picking school.
Here, we highlight the impact the prizes have had. Read our winners’ stories, then sign up for this year’s Pick Up.
We can turn plastic litter into a profit
A gang of 42 volunteers turned out last May for the Mail’s Great Plastic Pick Up to help clear the market town of Uttoxeter, in Staffordshire.
By the end of the day, they had recorded a massive 27 bags of rubbish and nine of recyclable plastic.
The hard-working team of organisers were chosen for one of our cash prizes due to the size of their pick-up and because the judges were impressed with their plans to recycle the plastic they had found to create useful items for local groups and schools.
A gang of 42 volunteers turned out last May for the Mail’s Great Plastic Pick Up to help clear the market town of Uttoxeter, in Staffordshire. By the end of the day, they had recorded a massive 27 bags of rubbish and nine of recyclable plastic
Uttoxeter resident Kate Copeland, 33, who heads the town’s push to banish litter and reduce plastic waste, says the team were thrilled with the news.
The group built an eco-centre in the town, which opened in November 2018.
The prize money is being put towards the refurbishment of an additional workshop and machinery that will allow volunteers to turn black plastic food packaging — which cannot be accepted by a lot of household recycling — into reusable coffee cups, rulers, clipboards, bowls and plant pots, as well as recycled plastic paving blocks for the community gardens in the town.
We did it: Kate Copeland (with wheelbarrow) and friends at the new eco-centre. The group built an eco-centre in the town, which opened in November 2018
Kate says: ‘While we wait for the machinery to arrive, we are getting the workshop ready and building up quite a substantial collection of plastic ready to be shredded.’
The team plan to sell the products they make and put the money towards funding a course for the community on recycling, litter-picking and plastic disposal.
‘Our aim is to raise awareness so that we can keep the whole of Staffordshire clear of litter and waste plastic,’ says Kate.
‘The Mail’s campaign really galvanised the community.’
Our school trip to meet penguins- and Chris Packham
Last year, the Mail offered a fabulous prize to the best school involved with the Great Plastic Pick Up. It was tough to pick just one from the 150 entrants.
But, ultimately, one stood out for its incredible efforts. As well as collecting 20 bags of rubbish for the Great Plastic Pick Up last year, the children from Chaucer Junior School in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, regularly go on litter-picks.
Chris sat with the children as they ate their packed lunches and took the chance to point out items of single-use plastic they had with them. ‘I hid my plastic drinks bottle so Chris didn’t see it,’ confessed one pupil
So, on September 12, 88 children jumped on buses provided by the Daily Mail for a trip to the National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham, escorted by TV naturalist and wildlife campaigner Chris Packham.
‘We were so thrilled when we found out we’d won,’ says teacher Kerry Wheatley. ‘There was a real buzz in the school.’
The children met Chris and heard him give a talk on plastic pollution and its impact on marine life. He then joined them in touring the site, chatting as they walked through the glass ‘ocean tunnel’ and watched penguins being fed.
For 11-year-old Keiran, it was a dream come true. ‘My mum calls me Dr Dolittle because I’m so obsessed with animals,’ he says. I was very excited to visit Sea Life. We saw turtles, angelfish and even sharks!’
He and Chris appear to have got on famously. ‘We talked a lot about sharks and he told me that octopuses don’t have teeth, but use their really sharp beaks to eat,’ says Keiran. ‘My best bit was when he told me that parrotfish make a bubble of snot to deter their predators.’
Chris sat with the children as they ate their packed lunches and took the chance to point out items of single-use plastic they had with them. ‘I hid my plastic drinks bottle so Chris didn’t see it,’ confessed one pupil.
As well as collecting 20 bags of rubbish for the Great Plastic Pick Up last year, the children from Chaucer Junior School in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, regularly go on litter-picks
Following the trip, the teachers encouraged pupils to practise their writing by sending letters to Costa Coffee, highlighting the evils of single-use coffee cups; to the local cinema (which doesn’t recycle its plastic); and to the council, to request more bins in the town.
They also wrote to Sea Life, thanking it for the visit and pointing out how the amount of plastic used in food packaging at the attraction could be reduced.
‘The event really changed things here,’ says teacher Gary Smith. ‘We’ve had plastic recycling bins put in the classrooms and staffroom and invited the council in to talk to the children about the cost of clearing up litter.’
‘You can be sure that we will be preparing to get our litter-pickers out once more for the Great British Spring Clean to help make Ilkeston look great!’
New safest steps for a slippery path
Craig and his team plan to use the cash to make beach access safer, with steps and handrails along a stretch of the slippery access path, and to install seagull-proof bins made from recycled plastic
The sands at Tregantle in south east Cornwall are a favourite dog-walking spot for 35-year-old Craig Brook-Hewitt — but the beach’s proximity to Plymouth means plastic rubbish from the town and out at sea is continually being washed ashore.
Craig says: ‘In the Great Plastic Pick Up last May, we cleared 45 bags of rubbish, some two tons of plastic rope and masses of fishing equipment.’
This impressed the Keep Britain Tidy judges, who awarded the crew a £10,000 prize.
Craig and his team plan to use the cash to make beach access safer, with steps and handrails along a stretch of the slippery access path, and to install seagull-proof bins made from recycled plastic.
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Main photo article During the 2018 Great Plastic Pick Up, the Daily Mail offered an incredible series of prizes — £10,000 each to three communities, to be spent on transforming their areas.
The prizes were fiercely contested, with 726 groups making an entry.
While it was hard to make their decision, the judges de...
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