Dr. Ian Humphreys - The Clean Europe Network

Dr. Ian Humphreys
Chief Executive
Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful
Clean Europe Week
A Preview…
• When: 8-17 May 2015
• Trajectory: 2015 – 2020
• Themes: A new focus every year
Warning !
Why?
Why?
Why?
154,616,408
Who?
• Action Developer
• Participant
• Clean Europe Week Co-ordinator
• Everyone!
Clean Europe Week 2014
No. Actions circa
10th May 2014
No. Volunteers
circa 10th May
An Taisce
102
5,000
Keep Britain Tidy
104
1,000
55
1,000
Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful
179
8,139
Keep Scotland Beautiful
230
12,000
Keep Sweden Tidy
128
2,280
Keep Wales Tidy
135
2,300
Nederland Schoon
120
6,138
1,071
37,857
Keep Denmark Tidy
TOTALS
Measuring success
• Increased citizen participation, year-onyear from 2015 to 2020
• Increasing number of countries
• Number and variety of innovative actions
• Ultimately, reduced litter counts and
reduced cost of cleaning up after litterers
Growing a movement
• When
2010
2,450 people
Realistic?
2014
105,000 people
Ideas for Action
• Set a new record through the Guinness
Book of Records
• Youth Parliament
• How clean is Europe?
• Coast and Waterways focus
• Other environmental incivilities
• And…
Idea for 2015?
Thank you
• When