Environment quality activism UK
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The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of UK community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' Environment quality activism and advocacy. Learn about how communities positively impact through innovations, different projects and collaborations. The majority of our information about this is collated via our place pages ...Near you.
Community groups may be concerned about litter, pollution, traffic pollution, air quality, noise or light pollution, river quality, state of beaches, etc. Communities concerns and the action they take may be for the health and wellbeing of all, environmental justice for both people and nature.
Environment quality news
'Serious climate breakdown' warning over filthy rivers and flooding, BBC News (Feb 15, 2026) - World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam, theguardian.com (Jan 10, 2026)
- ‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals, theguardian.com (Jan 05, 2026)
- ‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics, theguardian.com (Feb 19, 2026)
- Air pollution may directly contribute to Alzheimer’s disease – new study, theconversation.com (Feb 17, 2026)
- Five Years Into a Fishing Ban, the Yangtze River Is Teeming With Life, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 12, 2026)
Networks
- Adfree Cities, network of groups across the UK who are concerned about the impacts of corporate advertising on our health, wellbeing, environment, climate, communities and the local economy
- Network for Clean Air
- Pesticide Action Network UK
- Zilch.org.uk, national network of individuals in the UK working to eliminate littering.
Video
"I don't drive to birdwatch any more. I walk from my house. I'm under no pressure to see anything exciting. I've stopped commodifying it. I just think of being out where I should be. Whenever I do that I'm really thankful for it. Nature is not there to make me feel better. It's something we can use to help us but ultimately we have to be there for it as well. And we've got to make wholesale changes to how we live." Joe Harkness, theguardian.com
Events
Mar 13 - 29, 2026 (Fri - Sun) — Great British Spring Clean and Great Big School Clean, Keep Britain Tidy call to help improve local environments, keepbritaintidy.org- Jun 18, 2026 (Thu) — Clean Air Day, actionforcleanair.org.uk
- May 2 - 4, 2025 (Fri - Sun) first weekend of May every year — Jane's Walk, How to Lead a Jane's Walk, Video, janeswalk.org
- Mar 01, 2026 (Sun) — World Seagrass Day, Mar 1, annually. Raising awareness about seagrass and its important functions in the marine ecosystem.
- Mar 20 - 30, 2026 (Fri - Mon) — Pesticide Action Week, semaine-sans-pesticides.fr
- Apr 22, 2026 (Wed) — Earth Day, April 22, annually, earthday.org
- Jun 05, 2026 (Fri) — World Environment Day, June 5, annually, worldenvironmentday.global
- Jun 17, 2026 (Wed) — World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, each June 17, un.org
- July 2026 — Plastic Free July, plasticfreejuly.org
- Aug 09, 2026 (Sun) — International Day of the World's Indigenous People, observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population, un.org
- Dec 05, 2026 (Sat) — World Soil Day, annually on Dec 5, un.org
- Dec 11, 2026 (Fri) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually, fao.org
Community action projects
- Pesticide-Free Towns, see Pesticide-Free Towns – success stories, from pan-uk.org. Read how villages, towns and cities are going pesticide free and how you can make positive change where you live.
Maps
- England Noise and Air Quality Viewer, extrium.co.uk added 16:56, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
- How clean is the air where you are? foe.co.uk
- NightBlight, CPRE
- UK Ambient Air Quality Interactive Map, Defra UK, government site
- What's in Your Backyard? Local and national environmental data from the Environment Agency
Citizens data initiative
- Do you live in a pollution hotspot? Interactive map showing pollution hotspots, across England: (from) friendsoftheearth.uk, added 14:49, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- "1.8 million kilograms of the UK's plastic waste is exported to other countries every single day." The video gives a visualisation of the amount for a single day. One of the comments invites us to imagine the amount for a whole year.
- Ranking UK supermarkets on pesticides, 2021, pan-uk.org, added 14:56, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- UK AIR, air quality information resource, Defra
Apps for sustainability
Other resources
- Noisenuisance.org, a source of advice and help for those suffering from noise pollution added 17:00, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Environmental inequality in the United Kingdom
UK environmental inequalities refers to the way in which the quality of the environment differs between different communities in the UK.
Examples of environmental inequalities in the UK include: Access to parks, green spaces and the natural environment; Exposure to flood risk; Air pollution; Exposure to harmful chemicals; Transport-related problems and Proximity to waste and landfill sites.
Responses to UK environmental inequalities have included NGO's, academia and government.
Campaigns
- Badvertising, campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency, including ads for cars, airline flights and fossil fuels, added 16:41, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
- Pesticide-free towns and cities, pan-uk.org
- UK Noise Association
See also: Climate action UK, Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK, Urban sustainability UK
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
External links
Information from gov.uk
- Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
- Environment
- Environment Agency, public body responsible for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales.
- Floods destroy. Be prepared.
- Local environmental quality
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2015–2026). "Environment quality activism UK". Appropedia. Retrieved February 26, 2026. |