Clean Glasgow – Glasgow City Council’s campaign to rid the streets of litter and to change attitudes to littering, fly-tipping and dog fouling – teamed up with Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and key city businesses to launch the Clean Glasgow Business Charter at the end of last year.

Following the earlier launches of the campaign’s hugely successful Neighbourhood and Schools Charters – as well as a major enforcement programme that has seen over 5000 fixed penalty notices issued to offenders – the Business Charter aims to highlight to the city’s 20,000 businesses how they can both support the campaign and make the most of the services already available to them through the council.

One of the first companies to sign up to the Business Charter was ScottishPower. Alison McKean, Head of Environment, Energy Retail, at ScottishPower, said: “We are really keen to support Glasgow City Council in its bid to clean up the city.

“Anything which keeps the world around us a cleaner place to live is a positive step which is why we are happy to sign up to the Clean Glasgow Business Charter.

“We are already involved in doing our bit locally near our offices with a team carrying out a litter pick-up near our Glasgow headquarters.

“We are also expanding our Environmental Forum to include volunteers from across the business who will identify suitable environmental awareness projects that we can get involved in and champion these throughout the organisation.”

Glasgow City Council Leader Steven Purcell said: “I want to encourage each of Glasgow’s 20,000-plus businesses to show their commitment to the state of their city and sign up to the Clean Glasgow Business Charter.

“We have already seen huge commitment from residents and school pupils, with over 3000 volunteers coming forward to take part in over 100 clean-ups throughout the city since the Clean Glasgow campaign’s launch in February of this year.

“Our Clean Glasgow Business Action Team is keen to engage with businesses to enable them to improve the visual appearance of their premises as well as encouraging them to support local projects or even to adopt a public space.

“Glasgow City Council spends a massive £16 million on cleaning up the city every year. Through the Clean Glasgow campaign we hope to significantly reduce this figure, enabling us to invest this money in a way that will benefit businesses, residents and visitors alike.”

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