The European Parliament adopted a Declaration on Cleanup in Europe and Let's do it World 2012.

Stating that the lack of social responsibility and awareness of environmental issues continues to be a problem in many Member States, Members highlight that national civilian grass-root initiatives in the framework of the ‘Let's do it!’ action movement have taken place and have led to huge participation by citizens in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia and Romania since 2008 and these initiatives have produced concrete results such as mapping and cleaning up illegal waste littering.

Parliament considers that ‘Let's do it world!’ is a voluntary action movement inviting all the countries of Europe to join together for the biggest clean-up action ever in their country on one day in 2012 . In this context, it invites politicians to actively promote initiatives and citizens to join the action.

Members consider that this effective instrument should be widely promoted in order to raise awareness and responsibility for waste management aiming at the highest possible recycling rate.

They invite:

the Commission to support this initiative by all available means and also to launch a website publishing existing data on national waste registers and maps showing the location of illegal dump sites; the Member States to make additional efforts to fully implement and enforce the existing EU waste legislation in their countries.