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Earth Day Trash Pickup – Combined Area 40 Event
April 22, 2023 @ 9:15 am – 11:00 am
Meet time: 9:15 for coffee, camaraderie and organizing
Where: Meet at parking lot at Northfield Road and Inland Island Highway – Visitor Center, and your garbage pick-up location will be provided.
What is provided: Large green garbage bags, garbage ‘picker-uppers’, blue latex gloves, pick up of garbage at the end by the City
What to bring: A truck or similar if you have it (all ‘groups’ will have a participant with a truck); your Rotary shirt, jacket or hoodie, heavy gloves for grabbing big stuff; a few medium sized bags which are easier to carry around than the big black ones, or a 5 gallon pail (easiest of all to carry).
Schedule:
9:15-9:30 -Arrival
9:45: Go to designated clean up sites (maps will be provided)
11:15- Return to parking lot on Northfield and Inland Island Highway at Visitor Center with garbage….. and unload.
11:25 – Photo op!
11:30 – City comes (hopefully then) to take garbage away
11:40 – Tear down
2022 Rotary Environmental Service Day:
- 70 People gathered 2100 POUNDS (920 kg), in 90 minutes.
- Coolest find? vacuum and coffee maker.
- Most repetitive stuff- masks, food wrappers and Tim Horton’s cups.
