Empowering our communities to discover that each small action contributes to the bigger picture.
Awareness
This is our environment. How we treat it as individuals affects us all. Awareness of our own actions is the first step in transforming those actions.
Community
Bringing people together around a common cause - the space we share as a community!
Education
Where it all begins. As well as awareness around litter, education on how litter can be avoided in the first place it vital.
About us
PicUp are a London based environmental community project committed to creating a culture where people take responsibility for litter. Through encouraging people to take small actions, our vision is a world where it is as rare to find a piece of litter on the ground as it is to find a £50 note.
We work with schools, local councils, organisations and individuals to promote education and action and awareness around how each of us can make a lasting impact on our environment.
Latest on the blog
We did it!
Ok, so firstly, this post is 4 months late. I think that after pushing so hard to hit our goal, I just dropped everything once it was done, but hopefully late is better than never. So this message is actually from April 6th 2021! We did it! We raised £2512 (and 8p!) for NHS Charities […]
NHS Frontline Heroes
Happy New Year everyone. It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post and wanted to share with you all what’s happened since the last one. Back in November we smashed our Litterati Challenge target of 2500 pieces of littered PPE. In total we clocked up 2969 pieces, so a huge thank you to […]
A new challenge. PicUp: PPE
What we’re doing. In light of the Covid19 pandemic, we are facing a new form of litter. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is cropping up everywhere in our environment. We’ve launching a new challenge on Litterati to encourage people to document and (where safely possible) pick up items of PPE. An additional goal is to donate […]
We did it!
After almost a year since the start of the project, we have created and exhibited our first image. The final image is comprised of 1,969 photos sourced primarily from the PicUpForLondon club on the Litterati app, but also Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and direct mail. Top 5 litter tags: Plastic Wrapper Can Bottle Cigarrette We were […]