San Jose California Mayor Sam Liccardo encouraging participation in National CleanUp Day 2021. We love their efforts and let’s go out in the Bay Area to keep the outdoors clean.
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Verizon Wireless employees give back this month by volunteering for the 9/11 Day of Service, World Cleanup Day and Hispanic Heritage Month.
Through Citizen Verizon, one of our goals is to help people prosper through a commitment to volunteerism. September is jam-packed with opportunities to honor the past and clear the way for the future as we welcome three extraordinary volunteer moments — 9/11 Day of Service, World Cleanup Day and Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Forest Preserve Seeks Volunteers For National Cleanup Day
The Forest Preserve District of Will County is asking residents of Frankfort Township to help clean up parts of Old Plank Road Trail.
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At the rate the U.S. is generating waste, landfill space will eventually run out, which means we desperately need new solutions to reduce the size of our landfills. Here are some waste management technologies diverting waste from landfills.
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CleanUp organizations have been prepping for CleanUp Month. Now is the time to consider either holding a cleanup with a partner organization, joining an existing cleanup, or just setting out on your own to cleanup.
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Are biodegradable dog poop bags better than plastic poop bags? Here’s what you need to know about scooping your dog’s poop to minimize the environmental impact.
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Fast fashion is going out of style, or is it? Here’s what you need to know about the textile industry and waste.
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A misleading claim that 95 percent of the plastic debris in the world's oceans comes from only 10 rivers has been shared thousands of times on Facebook in Canada, in a meme and in videos. That figure, an incorrect interpretation of a 2017 study,
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Learn how data science can help turn trash data (not trashy data) into knowledge. This knowledge
needed to help combat the global problem of trash impacting our aquatic environments. This
presentation will discuss leveraging big data tools (open data, Trash Taxonomy, AI, machine learning,
web applications …) to turn data into action.
For many reasons, 2021 has been branded as a year of renewal and hope. It has been ushered in with the election of a new U.S. President and the promise of a COVID-19 vaccine to end our long-battle with the woes of pandemic. But simultaneously we continue to be bombarded with the threat of an immense crisis wielding sea level rise, wildfires, and global warming as its weapons of choice.
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What are your favorite sustainable brands for commonly used summer products? Here are a few of ours.
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San Diego Coastkeeper has a nice “solo cleanup” program tailored to encouraging folks to cleanup multiple locations in San Diego. If you live or are visiting the San Diego area, you should consider joining for a cleanup at a number of local beach sites. They do request that you download the well regarded Litterati App.
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Individual change only gets us so far in the environmental movement, but if that’s the case, who is to blame for our trash problem, and what are can we do to help?
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Be a part of the solution, not the pollution. The Litter Challenge is a grassroots movement to inspire, motivate and empower people all over the world to clean up the environment where they live, work and play.
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Plogging is a combination of going for a jog and picking up trash, and it is an activity that President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson of Iceland enjoys. Learn how plogging has impacted global cleanup efforts and how Iceland is leading by example in environmental policy and actionable change.
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The food industry’s products contribute heavily to landfills, both through food waste and packaging waste. You may not think much of leaving half your meal on the plate at a restaurant or accidentally letting products go past their expiration date, but these actions pile up. Where does food industry waste come from and what can we do about it?
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Why should you pick up your dog’s poop when you’re hiking? Find out the environmental and health hazards of dog waste so on your next hike, you won’t think twice about scooping your dog’s poop.
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Is your sunscreen harming the ocean? Find out what reef-safe sunscreen is and why you should start using it this summer.
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We’ve all seen the images of plastic pollution littering the oceans, but how much do we know about how it actually gets there?
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Green Up Vermont is held statewide on Saturday and expects over 22,000 participants.
The organization is so excited to have everyone join to be “out and about” to make this spring extra clean. The snowbanks have left a lot of litter as they melted away.
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