Earth Day Clean Up - Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21, 2012
Last year, over 8,900 people volunteered and collected trash from our roadsides, streams, and public spaces. Their amazing efforts brought in over 164,500 pounds of trash; more litter than was ever collected in the event's 18 year history!!!
Help keep our earth clean this year and register for Earth Day today.
How Earth Day Works:
OCRRA's Earth Day Litter Clean-Up event is a chance for friends, neighbors, and co-workers to help clean up our community.
Groups of all ages and sizes can volunteer to clean up any public area in the county they want. They can clean up on Friday or Saturday (or both). The more people that help out, the more litter we can remove from our community’s streets, highways, and parks!
OCRRA will send you special stickers to place on the bags of litter you collect. The stickers enable you to dispose of the trash for free! OCRRA's gift to Mother Nature.
Have photos of your group doing the Earth Day Clean-Up you want to share?
Please note: By submitting photos to OCRRA, residents grant us permission to use the photos in future online and digital publictions, without providing compensation to the submitter.
Even if you don't have photos to share, visit our Facebook page and tell us about your clean-up experience. Tell us about the weirdest thing your group collected during your clean-up!
Want to Make EVERY DAY Earth Day?
As we all know, trash accumulates year round, not just on Earth Day, which is why OCRRA’s Executive Director Rhoads says OCRRA is pleased to be part of the county’s Cleaner and Greener Campaign. Said Rhoads: "The continual clean-up program nicely compliments our annual Earth Day assault on litter. Our agency is fully supportive of this ongoing program to spruce up the community and eradicate visual pollution."
Rhoads listed the few simple guidelines for the clean sweep:
- Contact OCRRA at 453-2866 and express interest in the clean-up.
- Pick up litter only, not tires or white goods, such as old refrigerators.
- The trash collected in plastic bags should then be brought to your village or town highway garage.
- The stickered trash bags will be delivered by village and town highway
crews to OCRRA’s Rock Cut Road Transfer Station
Rhoads added that OCRRA stresses safety first when it comes to litter clean ups and will supply safety vests to participating groups that request them.
Adopt-a-Roadway / Adopt-a-Highway
Another way to help clean up the county is to participate in Adopt-a-Roadway or Adopt-a-Highway. If you are interested in adopting a specific stretch of roadside please contact one of the following organizations for more information:
Onondaga County
Adopt-a-Roadway
435-3205
New York State
Adopt-a-Highway
Routes east of I-81:
458-1910
Routes west of I-81:
672-8151
