How to keep your community clean

Work with the local civic groups to identify and eliminate eyesores, and beautify the local environment

Pick up a piece of litter every day

Keep a litter bag in your car or your recreational vehicle so you dispose of litter properly

Create a trash fishing contest in your waterway to increase awareness about illegal dumping and littering

Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper asking others to respect public lands and keep them clean

Help your local schools conduct recycling drives and clean-up projects

Create a beautiful green space by planting trees and shrubs in an area in need of improvement.

Ask local businesses to adopt-a-spot and take care of it

Paint and fix up playground equipment

Organize a paint-out with family and friends and create a community paintbrush mural over a wall of illegal graffiti

Recycle your old tires

Report graffiti to your local authorities

Donate your old computer equipment or dispose of it properly

Conduct a recycling drive in your neighborhood or your business

Volunteer to help your employer conduct paper recycling drives at work

Donate gently used clothes to needy organizations and shelters and identify other items that you can reuse

Compost yard and food waste and seek advice if you don’t know how

Find out how pollution in storm drain runoff can impact our aquifers and ecosystems and be passionate about doing your part to reduce litter and solid waste

Ask your local government officials to establish regular community improvement activities and to support and promote volunteer efforts

Help your library establish an environmental corner that offers books and other educational materials about taking care of the Earth

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