Cleaner Neighbourhoods Report

The 2020/21 Cleaner Neighbourhoods Report is now available to view and download here.

Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful’s Cleaner Neighbourhoods Report Report provides a detailed analysis of Local Environmental Quality data since the establishment of the eleven new councils. Covering littering and dog fouling, education, campaigning, public engagement, enforcement and more it tracks our progress toward a cleaner, greener and more sustainable future. It replaces the NI Litter Survey reports carried out on behalf of the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs since 2006 with a more comprehensive look at the wider picture of litter in Northern Ireland.

The report sets out to give clear unbiased information about efforts to educate, engage and where necessary enforce against anti-social behaviours such as littering, dog fouling and graffiti.

As well as giving a summary of the NI Litter Survey, which looks at litter at more than 1,100 sites across the country, the report includes detail on:

• Enforcement actions taken by councils, including the number of fixed penalties issued
  
• Enrolment in the Eco-Schools programme which has litter and the environment as core topics for school children
  
• Engagement by community and volunteer groups in projects and events which clean-up and empower communities
  
• Council-led litter education programmes
  
• Summary of marine litter surveys carried out along Northern Ireland's coastline
  
• The amount and impact of spending on street cleansing
  

You can also download past reports

• 2019/2020 Cleaner Neighbourhoods Report
• 2018/19 Cleaner Neighbourhoods Report 
• 2017/18 Cleaner Neighbourhoods Report
• 2016/17 National Benchmarking Report 
  
• NI Litter Survey 2015/6
• NI Litter Survey 2014
• NI Litter Survey 2013
• NI Litter Survey 2012