Organize a Neighborhood Clean-up Day
 • Choose a Saturday (when there is no snow) to clean up your community or a neighborhood section of your town.
• Work with your local fire department, community center, or public school and use them as the central meeting place.
• Arrange for trucks to haul the filled bags of litter to the dump or recycling center.
• Set the time of the clean-up, perhaps from 10 a.m. to noon.
• Have all participants gather to get their assigned location. Give each person a large, heavy-duty plastic bag for collecting litter. Try to get a local store or stores to donate the bags. Suggest that people wear work gloves to protect their hands.
• Encourage people to separate the litter-i.e., cans, glass, paper and cardboard, plastic and Styrofoam containers-to be recycled. In families, each person's bag can hold a different category of item.
• When their assigned area is all cleaned up, have participants bring their full bags back to the central meeting place.
• If possible, end the clean-up day with a barbeque or potluck lunch.
Have fun.
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