No more rubbish excuses!

We have launched a new littering campaign to encourage people to take their litter home. Fareham is an area of unique beauty with many beach, countryside and recreation public spaces, so it's important that we keep it looking its best.

The theme of our campaign this year is 'No More Rubbish Excuses', designed to help tackle some of the main issues we experience around the Borough. These include:

• Rubbish left at the side of bins in public spaces when the bin is full. This is easily spread far and wide by weather and wildlife, so take your litter home.
• Bags of dog mess left in public areas. There are over 600 litter and dog waste bins located around the Borough, so either find a bin or take it home.
• Litter left at our beachfront locations are not only an eyesore, it makes its way into our oceans and causes significant damage to sea life and ocean biodiversity. We have installed even more bins at these locations so please use them or take your litter home.

Not only will we be promoting this campaign Borough wide in littering hotspots and places of natural beauty, but we have also teamed up with Litter Lotto  to offer residents spot-prizes and the chance to win a £10,000 jackpot – just for throwing your litter in the bin! All you have to do is download the Litter Lotto app  and upload a picture of you putting litter in one of our bins for your chance to win.

Around 686 tonnes of waste was collected from our litter bins and through litter picking of streets, parks, seafronts and open spaces in 2020 – that's like 98 elephants or 381 average cars! Not only that, the total cost of the removal of litter and fly tipping from our Borough in the last financial year was 1.15 million pounds.

To help deal with this kind of environmental issue, our enforcement team is in the community issuing £80.00 fines - known as a fixed penalty notice (FPN). If you fail to pay, you could face prosecution and a fine of up to £2,500. You can find out more about this here.

If you are out and about, please take responsibility for your local area and take your litter home.