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Short Debate: Reaching a tipping point? Wales’s littering and fly-tipping epidemic
… groups, the local communities, the volunteers. So, a further £1.2 million in grant funding has gone to Keep Wales Tidy to help with this work, because they work so closely with our communities, tirelessly working to improve their … local environment. Last year our funding enabled Keep Wales Tidy to support over 2,500 people working selflessly every month as volunteers to improve their local environment. And as the Minister responsible for the voluntary sector and volunteers …
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Group 2: Electronic cigarettes (Amendments 6, 9, 10, 7, 8)
… these batteries are ending up in landfill. I'm grateful for information that I've received from Keep Wales Tidy, who've started to collect data on vaping litter on our streets. They've heard from a number … over the past year, who have all highlighted this as an emerging and growing issue. More specifically, Keep Wales Tidy are concerned about the rise of single-use vapes, which are purposely designed for only one use and …
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
… partnerships in Caerphilly and so on, and, indeed, much of this is supported by the work of Keep Wales Tidy very often, and the hubs they do and the equipment that they provide across south-east Wales, and … the support that Welsh Government gives to Keep Wales Tidy to do that. It is so disappointing that a daft, stupid, petty incident of theft now has meant that that equipment is not available, and I'm sure …
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on littering and fly-tipping
… Let me just touch on a couple of others quickly, with your dispensation there. The funding of Keep Wales Tidy supports the awareness-raising campaigns, direct support to communities wishing to improve their local environment. I and others … discussed here earlier on in questions—and then working with Fly-tipping Action Wales and Keep Wales Tidy. So, thank you for all the contributions and I look forward to working with Members and with the cross-party …
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on littering and fly-tipping
… our environment, and places an unfair burden on local authorities and on the public. The statistics from Keep Wales Tidy are extremely worrying, especially the increase in unacceptable levels of littering in our most deprived areas. Now, this … now for enforcement and education. I will close, Chair, where I started, with education. The work of Keep Wales Tidy in schools is invaluable. That needs to be incorporated into the curriculum. We have to change attitudes …
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on littering and fly-tipping
… Wales is on the rise. In many areas, it is reaching epidemic levels. Earlier this year, Keep Wales Tidy reported a 285 per cent increase in the number of streets heavily affected by litter and refuse. We should … all, and perhaps that isn’t surprising when each notice, on average, raised just £57. As Keep Wales Tidy notes, whilst fixed-penalty notices are popular with residents, they are resource-heavy, and this is an unavoidable fact …
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
… doing nothing on this. In fact, what we are doing is putting funding in place for Keep Wales Tidy to drive forward initiatives, not only on the beaches but in local communities all across Wales. In the budget … And that’s where I would agree with you absolutely on the work of the MCS and Keep Wales Tidy, funded by Welsh Government, and many other myriad organisations, not only to clean up the local environments and …
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Building on Wales’s Recycling Success
… fly-tipped down the back lane around the back of your house. We're also funding Keep Wales Tidy. Of course, Keep Wales Tidy work extensively within communities to empower them to do tidy-ups. I was out …
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
… will be in this Chamber, I'm sure, who join those gangs of volunteers—who work with Keep Wales Tidy to do local clean-ups. It's really important, and it sets a behavioural norm, and it sends … allowing those volunteers to get on with it themselves. That behavioural change is not just relying on Keep Wales Tidy officers, but volunteers themselves going, 'Hey, we'll sort it out now. You go. Go and do somewhere …
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on climate assurance for children and young people
… are already so many organisations that will, I know, be able to help as partners in this. Keep Wales Tidy's eco-schools programme is instilled with a sense of empowering young people, to arm them with tools … improve the environment. I know over 1,100 schools in Wales engaged with Keep Wales Tidy last year, and their training courses for teachers include carbon literacy, and linking eco work to the curriculum. Other organisations like Teach …
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability: Update on the Deposit-return Scheme
… some of the international examples, where we can really bear down on on-the-go littering. A Keep Wales Tidy survey showed that drinks-related litter is on 43.6 per cent of our streets—nearly half of our …
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Questions to the First Minister
… build on these achievements. By funding programmes such as Fly-tipping Action Wales and organisations like Keep Wales Tidy, we are helping communities across Wales by improving their local environment …
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Business Statement and Announcement
… evidence backs this up. Litter levels in Wales have reached a crisis point, with the campaign group Keep Wales Tidy, on publishing their annual report last year, finding the worst results for street cleanliness in the 17 years …
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
… Antoniw, and in taking forward the DRS as well—but also in the funding of things like Keep Wales Tidy, which we have stood steadfastly by, because they then work with those local groups in the local communities …
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
… and to ensure everyone takes their own responsibility as well for disposing their waste properly. By funding Keep Wales Tidy we're providing direct support to communities, and our legislation is shifting the supply chain towards more easily …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Annual scrutiny with arms-length bodies - Evidence session with Amgueddfa Cymru
… deliver against each bit. So, you've probably spotted a bit in there about working with Keep Wales Tidy on that sort of stuff and all sorts of economic objectives, et cetera. I would love to see targeted …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
… like you have failed to see the mess Welsh Labour have made of our country. According to Keep Wales Tidy's 2024 report, there's been a staggering 286 per cent rise in the number of streets graded …
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on fly-tipping
… member of your cross-party group and I know you’ve worked really hard with others, including Keep Wales Tidy and other organisations, because I think we’re all sick and tired and fed up of seeing our …
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… dog public space protection order, and we had huge discussions and lots of input from dog walkers, Keep Wales Tidy, and anti-dog people as well. But we did want to keep our local beach, Talacre, dog-friendly …
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… fixed 15 May—30 September (or even from 1 May!) or to exclude out of hours access. Keep Wales Tidy (who classify Blue Flag beaches in Wales) say that it is up to the applicant body to decide …