Earth Day Clean Up
Earth Day 2010
Friday, April 16 & Saturday, April 17
Click here to register your group for Earth Day 2010!
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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.
During the 2009 event, over 11,800 people volunteered on and collected trash from our roadsides, streams, and public spaces. Their amazing efforts brought in over 137,000 pounds of trash!
Help keep our earth clean this year and register for Earth Day today!
Register by March 24 and be entered in a raffle for Earth Day prizes.
Final registration deadline is April 2.
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 people for more information:
Onondaga County
Adopt-a-Roadway
Joyce Coburn - 435-3205
New York State
Adopt-a-Highway
Routes east of I-81:
Dave Smith - 458-1910
Routes west of I-81:
Larry Hasard - 672-8151
