Stalking Litter
Stalking Litter is the council's innovative technique to help reinforce its anti litter campaigns and keep Southwark's streets clean.
The giant litter costumes, including a cigarette butt, crisp packet, soft drink can and half eaten food like chicken drumsticks represent the most common types of litter found on Southwark's streets. We also have rat and cockroach costumes which demonstrate that litter attracts vermin and other pests.
See them in action
The giant litter costumes are used to perform street theatre across the borough, mainly in high streets and commercial areas where litter is a problem.
The theatrical scenes using costumes help to demonstrate environmental issues we further inform people by giving out the leaflet "Did you know that littering is a crime?" (pdf 155kb).
By interacting with passers by and acting out scenes, it attracts people to further engage with our campaign and to ask questions surrounding their concerns around the enviroment where they live and work.
We also advise and provide information on the effect litter has on high streets and elsewhere, as well as how litter problems are tackled and enforced in the borough.
It is a criminal offence to drop litter the consequence of which is on the spot fine of £75.
Litter lessons in school
 On May 6 2009, school children were given an unusual lesson in keeping Southwark tidy. Council officers visited Cathedral Way school in Borough dressed as apple cores, burgers and other bits of litter, and then gave the children from Year 3 and 4 an opportunity to see what it's like being litter.
The environmental enforcement and creative design team also showed the children how a specialised enforcement CCTV van is used to investigate and tackle enviromental crime.
This is part of the ongoing anti littering campaign the council runs to educate the public about the effect that dropping litter has on the environment.
Want to see Stalking Litter in action?
For a list of performance dates, please email creative.design@southwark.gov.uk
View the video clip of stalking litter in action (Mpeg movie 1.8mb)
Contact us
Creative design team
Tel: 020 7525 2383
creative.design@southwark.gov.uk
Chaplin Centre
Thurlow Street
Lodon
SE17 2DG
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