Clean Up The World in Gibraltar - 2005



The Environmental Safety Group has now been established for fives years and have been making progress ever since. They have multiple concurrent projects such as a media campaign, information campaign, legal campaign, etc… where experts from as far as Barcelona, America and Canada and the European Environmental Commissioner are being involved.

The ESG consists of a group of volunteers with Janet Howitt being the only full time employee dedicating her time to the organisation every day, thanks to firms which are collaborating with the group. None the less, a lot of funding is still needed for trips, sampling, bringing in experts to review the situation, and more.

In September 2005 the ESG organised the “Clean Up The World” day in Gibraltar, which brought together over 300 people of different ages from the very young to the not so young in an act towards a cleaner Gibraltar. The ESG was very happy with the turn out on the day, which helps to make the government and other people in Gibraltar more aware of the pollution problems that there are.

There is still a long way to go, with a lot of projects in the pipeline such as the need to recycle, which Janet Howitt believes is something Gibraltar HAS TO LOOK AT.

Interview with Janet Howitt and Jonathan Scott from the ESG.