Forth Rivers Trust: Unblocktober 2024

Forth Rivers Trust: Unblocktober 2024

Unblocktober is the world’s first month-long national campaign and awareness month to improve the health of our drains, sewers, watercourses and seas. It is a public awareness campaign that focuses on the health of our sewers, rivers and seas – and how we can...
Unblocktober 2023 with the Trust

Unblocktober 2023 with the Trust

As October comes to an end, we summarise our Unblocktober campaign. Yearly, we participate in Unblocktober, a campaign to save our sewers and seas. Working alongside rivers across the catchment, the Trust sees the impact of #nonflushables in our freshwaters every day,...

Unblocktober and RiverRubbish: Raising Awareness

Raising awareness of environmental issues is always a difficult balance between action on the ground and effective use of media channels. Lots can be done on the ground, but if too little reflective material and information is disseminated then the impacts of the work...

Reflecting on River Rubbish

Our RiverRubbish Project has been run on two separate occasions now and they couldn’t be further apart. I don’t mean this in terms of distance, although this is a big factor. I am in fact referring to the river Almond’s diversity, habitat and community around the...