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Caru Cymru International
Spring Clean Cymru is the national campaign

run by Keep Wales Tidy as part of the Caru
Cymru programme, encouraging people across Eco-Schools is the largest global sustainable now informally ‘twinned’ with a Maltese school
Wales to get out and help tackle litter in their schools programme, operating in 72 countries. to develop further actions.
community. The Eco-Schools team helped This year we have celebrated this international
promote this campaign to schools across Wales connection more than ever – it is truly fantastic
and consequently over 200 schools registered for the young people in Wales to know they are
to take part in a community litter pick. part of an international movement. We ensure

that we include examples from international
Eco-Schools in each of our newsletters, and we
have included an international aspect in our
virtual workshop provision for the first time.

Pennar Community Primary School are an Eco-
School from Pembrokeshire. We invited them to

present on behalf of Eco-Schools Wales at Eco-
Schools Malta’s international school conference
on Climate Change, sharing ideas with schools
from other countries. As a result, Pennar have

Three Carmarthenshire primary schools recently took part in a Keep Wales Tidy
litter picking event at the Parc Pensarn in Carmarthen and were filmed for the S4C “I just wanted to say a massive thank you to you for allowing us to represent Eco-
programme Prynhawn Da. Schools Wales in the conference this morning. It was a worthwhile experience and
the Green Team representatives that took part were buzzing with ideas following
the event! They were particularly interested in hearing about how climate change is

Litter Free Zones impacting Malta, as obviously here in Wales, we are used to getting plenty of rain
As part of Caru Cymru, Keep Wales and so the impact is perhaps not as tangible here.”
Tidy has launched Litter Free Zones - Sian Taylor, Teacher, Pennar Community Primary School
– a brand-new scheme designed to

encourage businesses and schools to
keep their communities’ litter-free.
The scheme sees organisations across
Wales adopt specific zones to clean-up “I don’t know from where to start to thank you for your collaboration.
on a regular basis, helping to improve The feedback from our schools has been great ... they learned a lot (as WE did)
the local environment, and contribute to from the experiences you shared with us. Such an experience makes being part of
regenerating the local community. the Eco-Schools family worthwhile and seeing these young citizens’ enthusiasm
to light a candle rather than curse the darkness fills me with hope for a better
The Eco-Schools Wales team has tomorrow.”
supported the scheme by promoting - Professor Paul Pace, Director of the Centre for Environmental Education and
it to schools – so far 152 schools from Research, University of Malta, and Eco-Schools Coordinator for Malta

across Wales have signed up. The
Ysgol Rhosnesni are newly registered as a Litter scheme was only launched in January.
Free Zone, aiming to keep their school and local

environment in Wrexham litter free.

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