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Education – deploy specific educational actions in public spaces, schools and civil society on behaviours that promote urban cleanliness and respect for the environment.
Measures
46. Reducing, sorting and reusing waste and preserving public cleanliness are learnt about at primary and secondary school.
Expanding the regional strategy and programme for environmental education in primary and secondary schools on overall waste management (reduction, sorting, reuse and cleanliness).
47. Using the lessons learnt in behavioural psychology to improve the effectiveness of actions in awareness-raising, communication, enforcement, choice of infrastructure and adoption of an attitude of responsibility for public space on the part of users.
Using the lessons learnt in the behavioural psychology study in all occupations of the actors working on the issue of cleanliness in order to improve the effectiveness of their actions in awareness-raising, communication, enforcement, choice of infrastructure and adoption of an attitude of responsibility for public space on the part of users.
48. Informing newcomers to municipalities about the rules and best practices for waste prevention and management.
Facilitating the adoption of good waste management practices by newcomers within the municipalities by means of a support programme, as already implemented in certain Brussels municipalities.
49. Increasing the deployment of actions on the ground, particularly at markets or during major events, to educate and raise awareness of good waste management practices (prevention, waste sorting, cleanliness).
Increasing the deployment of actions on the ground, particularly at markets or during major events, to educate and raise awareness of good waste management practices (prevention, waste sorting, cleanliness). Initiatives are underway and will be extended in the future.
Bruxelles-Propreté implements numerous actions on the ground in order to educate and raise awareness about sorting waste and respecting public cleanliness.
Key examples of its awareness-raising work include participating in major events organised in the Brussels region, distributing pocket ashtrays and informing the public about the harm caused by cigarette butt littering, and supporting civic clean-up initiatives in local communities through the #WakeUpCleanUp programme.
Bruxelles-Propreté is currently providing guidance and support to the public in the run-up to introduction on 1 May 2023 of the obligation to sort food waste. Much of its work in the field is about raising awareness and supporting the public in preparing for this change, in particular through the mass distribution of containers at events, at markets and in supermarkets.
These actions will be stepped up in the first quarter of 2023.
An initiative of Bruxelles-Propreté
