Litter related resources
PSA (Public Service Announcement)
Texas Confederate Air force tackles litterers. (short video)
The Crying Indian P.S.A
Anti-Litter Videos
. Can I just get a hug?
. What I discovered in New York City trash TED talk. Robin Nagle
· Joking Trash can
· Sesame Street Noodles and Nedd
3. Adopt a Spot: By Duxbury Litter Patrol.
4. Litter Facts and Research. By State of Missouri:
5. Great Britain litter count by brand.
5b. Name brands shamed
6. Litter it just isn't natural- Poster PDF.
7. Keep America Beautiful org.
8. Reducing litter on roadsides, 2009 Report
9. The Litter Letter Project
10. Changing littering behavior - Community Change:
11. Trashed (documentary)
12. Guide to cigarette litter prevention program.
13. Bait Tanks: Cig. Butt containers.
14. De-mystifying the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch NOAA
15. Why we litter.
16. ***How our Trash affects the whole planet.
Design Clean (Ideas)
1.
2. Create anti litter video or Pick Up Litter video for cash prize
3. Responsible Runners
Marine Debris:
1. Turning the Tide on Trash. A leaning guide on Marine Debris by NOAA:
2. Pocket Guide to Aquatic Debris by The Ocean Conservancy:
3. Pocket Guide to Marine Debris: by The Ocean Conservancy:
3b. Litter and Marine Debris. By Solve:
4. ‘Scary as hell’ ocean-research storm breaks
5. The tragedy of ocean
5. Living Lands and Waters Chad Pregracke: Cleaning up American rivers
Chad Pregracke has made it his life's work to clean up the Mississippi River and other American waterways. Since 1998, about 70,000 volunteers have helped Pregracke remove more than 7 million pounds of garbage from 22 rivers across the country. "Picking up garbage, it's tough, miserable and hot," Pregracke said. "We try to make it fun."
"A lot of people call me a conservationist or an environmentalist, but the thing is I'm no different than anybody else," he said. "I just want to be known (as) a hardworking American."
Read more here
6. Got a spare afternoon?
Microplastics
VERMONT
1. Vermont Deficit Disorder -Your brain on Vermont. (short video). Gardener Blog
2. Winter in Vermont, Top 11 experiences.
3. South Burlington Land Trust (SBLT)
The SBLT is dedicated to protecting South Burlington’s special features, specifically its natural resources through land conservation vehicles, to maintain this high quality of life. Partnerships are established with other conservation organizations and individuals to protect natural areas in South Burlington and Vermont as a whole.
4. Lake Champlain International (LCI) Fishing Derby (Video)
5. Sexy Vermont: 50 Shades of Green Text and Videos
6. Vermont-A Sense of Place
Birding
1. Pesticide Acute Toxicity Is a Better Correlate of U.S. Grassland Bird Declines than Agricultural Intensification
1b. http://ht.ly/j9xnc
2. Vermont Birder (blog w/photos)
Clean Earth images
Sustainability
1. Compostable Products: What they are. .
2. Are mushrooms the new plastic?
Ecovative Design. (Using regional raw materials-ag waste, can be formed to any form, and it is compostable.)
3. City of South Burlington's Path to Sustainability
4. Be Straw Free campaign.
4b. Be Straw Free Blog
5. Natural Packing Material for shipping: Pine Cones - light weight, free, compostable.(no link)
6. We Hate to Waste Blog:
7. NY Wa$ste Match
8. Rethinking Consumption (2012 report):
9. Green, frugal, sustainable- Blog:
10. Business core strengths for social change:
11. Good life is…
12. Sustainable Vt community
13. Sweden runs out of trash.
14. Sustainability/Neighborhoods: Pocket neighborhoods.
Less stuff, more time.
Conservation vs Consumption
1. Collaborative Consumerism:
3. Picturing Excess
4. Stuck in Vt: Tiny Houses.
5. Stuck in Vt. Tiny Houses sequel
6. The high price of materialism
7. The Story of stuff
8. Tiny Houses
9. To much stuff?
10. Unconsumption-Re-Use blog
11. Global waste-not, trash into musical instruments...
12. * Whats the point of work?
13. *** This Little Video Will Make You Question Consumerism Like Never Before!
Bottle Deposit InfoSystems Analysis of the Impact of Act 148
on Solid Waste Management in Vermont.
Texas Confederate Air force tackles litterers. (short video)
The Crying Indian P.S.A
Anti-Litter Videos
. Can I just get a hug?
. What I discovered in New York City trash TED talk. Robin Nagle
· Joking Trash can
· Sesame Street Noodles and Nedd
· Inspirational- Biker picking up litter
. 3 month Litter campaign
. Skate park antilittering video
Litter Songs
· Its yours and mine by Ronnie Trash.
· BUTT Really? by Michael Franti
1. Anti-Litter Resources Wiki2. Burlington Free Press Article I believe - litter free year round . 3 month Litter campaign
. Skate park antilittering video
Litter Songs
· Its yours and mine by Ronnie Trash.
· BUTT Really? by Michael Franti
Litter Information Links
3. Adopt a Spot: By Duxbury Litter Patrol.
4. Litter Facts and Research. By State of Missouri:
5. Great Britain litter count by brand.
5b. Name brands shamed
6. Litter it just isn't natural- Poster PDF.
7. Keep America Beautiful org.
8. Reducing litter on roadsides, 2009 Report
9. The Litter Letter Project
10. Changing littering behavior - Community Change:
11. Trashed (documentary)
12. Guide to cigarette litter prevention program.
13. Bait Tanks: Cig. Butt containers.
14. De-mystifying the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch NOAA
15. Why we litter.
16. ***How our Trash affects the whole planet.
Design Clean (Ideas)
1.
2. Create anti litter video or Pick Up Litter video for cash prize
3. Responsible Runners
Marine Debris:
1. Turning the Tide on Trash. A leaning guide on Marine Debris by NOAA:
2. Pocket Guide to Aquatic Debris by The Ocean Conservancy:
3. Pocket Guide to Marine Debris: by The Ocean Conservancy:
3b. Litter and Marine Debris. By Solve:
4. ‘Scary as hell’ ocean-research storm breaks
5. The tragedy of ocean
5. Living Lands and Waters Chad Pregracke: Cleaning up American rivers
Chad Pregracke has made it his life's work to clean up the Mississippi River and other American waterways. Since 1998, about 70,000 volunteers have helped Pregracke remove more than 7 million pounds of garbage from 22 rivers across the country. "Picking up garbage, it's tough, miserable and hot," Pregracke said. "We try to make it fun."
Read more here
6. Got a spare afternoon?
Microplastics
1. What’s the Big Deal with Microplastics?
2. Micro Plastic Pollution
3. Micro plastics research 1yr pilot-scale study@16 N.H. beaches.
4. Microplastics in Great Lakes.
5. Lake Garda full of plastic.
6. Ingested plastic transfers hazardous chemicals to fish and induces hepatic stress
Cigarette Butts
1. Vancouver Canada to collect and bring butts to recycle
2. Cigarette Butt Pollution Project
2. Get to Know Your Recyclable Plastics by Number
3. Plastic Oceans by ABC. .
4. Plastic Shores
5. http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3591476.htm
6. Plastic Oceans by Behind The News.
7. Ballad of the plastic bag. By Plastic Pollution:
10. 4 secrets about bottled water. By Mens Health:
11. Bag It Movie Trailer.
14. Polluting plastics by Chris Jordan.
15. * Plastic seduction video. By Plastic Pollution. (Video of people eating plastic)
16. Plastic pollution makes fish sick. By Radio Netherlands WW.
17. The Story of bottled water. By The story of stuff project.
Gardening and Soil remediation
1. Vermont Gardner
2. Building Soil
3. Growing w/o digging
4.*** The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
5. Permaculture
6.Dandelions
7.VT Tree selection
8. Wildflowers Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
9. U.S. Wildflowers (USwildflowers.com)
10. Micro urban backyard farm
11. More on Urban Micro Farm.
12. Urban Homestead website
2. Micro Plastic Pollution
3. Micro plastics research 1yr pilot-scale study@16 N.H. beaches.
4. Microplastics in Great Lakes.
5. Lake Garda full of plastic.
6. Ingested plastic transfers hazardous chemicals to fish and induces hepatic stress
Cigarette Butts
1. Vancouver Canada to collect and bring butts to recycle
2. Cigarette Butt Pollution Project
Plastic wrapped Earth
The Plastic Bag Wars- article in The Rolling Stones Magazine. Thoughts on a timeless coast in a plastic world. We have no idea how long plastic litter will last in the environment. Why? Because as of now we have no idea of anything in nature that is actually known to decompose plastic back to its building blocks.
http://www.pressherald.com/blogs/undercurrents/233449061.html2. Get to Know Your Recyclable Plastics by Number
3. Plastic Oceans by ABC. .
4. Plastic Shores
5. http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3591476.htm
6. Plastic Oceans by Behind The News.
7. Ballad of the plastic bag. By Plastic Pollution:
8. Marine Debris by NOAA.
9. Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic Debris… by Huff. Posthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/09/great-pacific-garbage-patch_n_1501544.html?ref=tw10. 4 secrets about bottled water. By Mens Health:
11. Bag It Movie Trailer.
12. Lessons from the Lorax: Why Nagging Doesn’t Work: By My Plastic-free life.
13. The no plastic project. 14. Polluting plastics by Chris Jordan.
15. * Plastic seduction video. By Plastic Pollution. (Video of people eating plastic)
16. Plastic pollution makes fish sick. By Radio Netherlands WW.
17. The Story of bottled water. By The story of stuff project.
18. Plastic the ocean's deadliest predator. By We hate to waste.
19. GreatPacificGarbagePatch - Beth Terry - Living Plastic Free.
20. Real Easter Basket Grass. Made in Vermont. A NATURAL ALTERNATIVE TO IMITATION PLASTIC GRASS.
20. Real Easter Basket Grass. Made in Vermont. A NATURAL ALTERNATIVE TO IMITATION PLASTIC GRASS.
Gardening and Soil remediation
1. Vermont Gardner
2. Building Soil
3. Growing w/o digging
4.*** The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
5. Permaculture
6.Dandelions
7.VT Tree selection
8. Wildflowers Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
9. U.S. Wildflowers (USwildflowers.com)
10. Micro urban backyard farm
11. More on Urban Micro Farm.
12. Urban Homestead website
VERMONT
1. Vermont Deficit Disorder -Your brain on Vermont. (short video). Gardener Blog
2. Winter in Vermont, Top 11 experiences.
3. South Burlington Land Trust (SBLT)
The SBLT is dedicated to protecting South Burlington’s special features, specifically its natural resources through land conservation vehicles, to maintain this high quality of life. Partnerships are established with other conservation organizations and individuals to protect natural areas in South Burlington and Vermont as a whole.
4. Lake Champlain International (LCI) Fishing Derby (Video)
5. Sexy Vermont: 50 Shades of Green Text and Videos
6. Vermont-A Sense of Place
Birding
1. Pesticide Acute Toxicity Is a Better Correlate of U.S. Grassland Bird Declines than Agricultural Intensification
1b. http://ht.ly/j9xnc
2. Vermont Birder (blog w/photos)
Clean Earth images
Why do we worry too much about some environmental risks and not enough about others?
Natural World
1. Natural History Dictionary The Natural History Dictionary is a collaborative project based in Burlington, VT. Entries in this dictionary will help users figure out what the presence of a plant, fungus, animal, rock, natural phenomenon, or human artifcat in an area indicates about that place in particular. ...our dictionary includes contextual information to help you understand why you find things where you find them and why you don’t where you don’t. Secondly, the dictionary will help you interpret the adaptive and ecological meaning of key features of plants, rocks, animals, etc
3. E-Butterfly. Report and share your butterfly observations, photographs, and collections to promote scientific discovery.
Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria - is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere. Imagine what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice.
Our Vision: Global access to knowledge about life on Earth.
Our Mission: To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.
Messaging:
The Story of Telling
Messaging:
The Story of Telling
Sustainability
1. Compostable Products: What they are. .
2. Are mushrooms the new plastic?
Ecovative Design. (Using regional raw materials-ag waste, can be formed to any form, and it is compostable.)
3. City of South Burlington's Path to Sustainability
4. Be Straw Free campaign.
4b. Be Straw Free Blog
5. Natural Packing Material for shipping: Pine Cones - light weight, free, compostable.(no link)
6. We Hate to Waste Blog:
7. NY Wa$ste Match
8. Rethinking Consumption (2012 report):
9. Green, frugal, sustainable- Blog:
10. Business core strengths for social change:
11. Good life is…
12. Sustainable Vt community
13. Sweden runs out of trash.
14. Sustainability/Neighborhoods: Pocket neighborhoods.
13. Articles by various authors about waste.
14. Creative Houses TED Talk
15. Discard Studies (blog). Exploring throw-away culture
16. Respectful Revolution. The Respectful Revolution documents positive actions throughout the United States with short video portraits.
14. Creative Houses TED Talk
15. Discard Studies (blog). Exploring throw-away culture
16. Respectful Revolution. The Respectful Revolution documents positive actions throughout the United States with short video portraits.
Less stuff, more time.
Conservation vs Consumption
1. Collaborative Consumerism:
3. Picturing Excess
4. Stuck in Vt: Tiny Houses.
5. Stuck in Vt. Tiny Houses sequel
6. The high price of materialism
7. The Story of stuff
8. Tiny Houses
9. To much stuff?
10. Unconsumption-Re-Use blog
11. Global waste-not, trash into musical instruments...
12. * Whats the point of work?
13. *** This Little Video Will Make You Question Consumerism Like Never Before!
Bottle Deposit InfoSystems Analysis of the Impact of Act 148
on Solid Waste Management in Vermont.
- The most recent Vermont estimates for bottle bill and other material recovery rates that I’m aware of may be found in "Systems Analysis of the Impact of Act 148 on Solid Waste Management in Vermont," a study completed by DSM Environmental Services in 2013 for ANR. For just bottle bill estimates, see Chapter V, which begins on page 43. See especially the second to last paragraph on page 46 regarding issues with calculating accurate recovery rates for bottle bill materials. They also estimated quantities of non-deposit containers that might be included in an expanded Bottle Bill and recovery through MRFs. That discussion begins on page 86 and there’s a summary table on page 87. System 1- Base Case is the current system in Vermont.
- Nancy PlunkettChittenden Solid Waste DistrictWaste Reduction Manager
Community
1. Ways to make your neighborhood safer, greener, more fun.
2.Create shared message online message boards: Read how others used it for litter related entries by the public
3. South Burlington Common Roots:Common Roots connects farmers, educators, youth, and community members to build a sustainable future through place-based educational and service programs.
Vermont made Sustainable Products
1. Ways to make your neighborhood safer, greener, more fun.
2.Create shared message online message boards: Read how others used it for litter related entries by the public
3. South Burlington Common Roots:Common Roots connects farmers, educators, youth, and community members to build a sustainable future through place-based educational and service programs.
Vermont made Sustainable Products
1. Real Easter Basket Grass. Made in Vermont. A Natural alternative to imitation plastic grass.
2.Conant Metal and Light blog. While we still produce a broad range of custom products, re-purposed lighting, re-purposed furniture, and everything industrial has become our primary focus
3. Vermont Woods Studios Blog.
Clean Up Support
Living Lands and Waters Chad Pregracke: Cleaning up American rivers
Chad Pregracke has made it his life's work to clean up the Mississippi River and other American waterways. Since 1998, about 70,000 volunteers have helped Pregracke remove more than 7 million pounds of garbage from 22 rivers across the country. "Picking up garbage, it's tough, miserable and hot," Pregracke said. "We try to make it fun."
"A lot of people call me a conservationist or an environmentalist, but the thing is I'm no different than anybody else," he said. "I just want to be known (as) a hardworking American."
Read more here
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2.Conant Metal and Light blog. While we still produce a broad range of custom products, re-purposed lighting, re-purposed furniture, and everything industrial has become our primary focus
3. Vermont Woods Studios Blog.
Clean Up Support
Chad Pregracke has made it his life's work to clean up the Mississippi River and other American waterways. Since 1998, about 70,000 volunteers have helped Pregracke remove more than 7 million pounds of garbage from 22 rivers across the country. "Picking up garbage, it's tough, miserable and hot," Pregracke said. "We try to make it fun."
Read more here
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Blog Roll of fellow litter pickers.
Other year round Litter Pickers, cleaning up our world one piece at a time...ck'em out!
Trash Paddler Primarily a 'lone wolf' paddler on the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers who decided to pickup the trash I encounter, rather than paddle past it.
It Starts With Me. & Our Daily Ocean (N.C.) Cigarette butts are the #1 littered item worldwide... my local beach-- Wrightsville Beach, NC-- is no exception. I'll head out to WB at varying beach accesses and pick up litter for 20 minutes. 54,415 cigarette butts in 179 days {as of 2/14/2013}. A ripple starts here.
Museum of Litter Virtual museum who's mission is litter-prevention by ARTiculating litter with humor, art and kindness. Kind of like Greenpeace meets the Dalai Lama. Museum's Goal is to go out of business because there's no more litter to showcase. Litter-art sales fund awareness, education & events.
Museum of Litter Virtual museum who's mission is litter-prevention by ARTiculating litter with humor, art and kindness. Kind of like Greenpeace meets the Dalai Lama. Museum's Goal is to go out of business because there's no more litter to showcase. Litter-art sales fund awareness, education & events.
Three easy steps to eliminate litter in your city.
Artist at Exit 0 Riverblog I am an artist and art advocate. In addition to making and exhibiting my own artwork, I have an extensive background in the visual arts. I also have a love for the natural world which informs the art I make.
The Flotsam Diaries Since February 29 (when I finally got down to a clean "baseline" from which to work), I've collected nearly 12,000 pieces of washed-in garbage! (This after the 15221 pieces I collected in 2010-2012 from Bayview beach, Saco.) About 75% comes directly from the lobster fishing industry. (Other pieces, like the many bits of coffee cup lids, speak at least anecdotally to early-morning boating.) Every father reaches that moment, when he knows he has to change the world for his little girl.
Flotsam Weaving (Jo Atherton)
I am an artist who creates intricate tapestries with flotsam gathered from the Atlantic coast of Cornwall. Jutting out into the North Atlantic Current, a tributary of the Gulf Stream, the Cornish coast serves as a unique collection point for material from all over the planet. Balloons from France, fishing gear from The Netherlands, toys from the USA and even lobster trap tags from Canada have found their way into my varied tapestries.
Jo's Tex X talk
Peaceful protest against litter I live in Belgium (Europe). I organise clean up events and pick litter regularly. Through my blog and facebook page and through the sharing of pictures and ideas I love to connect with other voluntary litter-pickers on the planet. I truely believe that together we can make a difference...
Citzens Against Litter We are people of all ages. We are a loosely connected group of Pittsburgh residents and merchants who are passionate about picking up litter in our neighborhoods. We are involved in the Redd Up Pittsburgh movement.
Sheilas Schlog-Litter prevention Program. Founder of the Litter Prevention Program, and prior worked as a communications ace and PR strategist for some of Ontario's top political names. Sheila White is President of Toronto's WORDS Media & Communications Inc., the creator of a variety of communication products and services under the company's two divisions: Serious and Fun. As founder of the Litter Prevention Program, Sheila combines her true passions: music, education and the environment.
Cleaning beaches Removing plastic from the ocean, one bag at a time.
Shoreline Cleanups
Rozalia Project: Adventures in Ocean Clean-up Adventures in Ocean cleanup.
I Rcmd. the TedX talk - We can clean the Ocean. (on the Rozalia web site)
In Vermont (2012) Rozalia Project put 41 people back to work and cleaned over 500,000 pieces of trash from along Lake Champlain and Vermont’s rivers as part of Irene recovery and partnership with the VT Dept. of Labor.
Keep Canada Clean, Surrey BC We have cleaned up our corner and called the city countless times to come pick up the latest things that have been dumped. On December 4, 2011, I decided to take my camera on my daily walks and photograph what I found. You may also be dismayed at the amount of trash that I was able to document in the 12 days before Christmas 2011. But then I walk my dog every day and now that I'm in the habit of carrying my camera, I have continued to document the mess I see everywhere.
Clean and Lean - Our Blog One morning walking along Hillcrest Road in Mobile, AL, a plastic bag was blowing along the street. Wanting to keep it out of the storm drain, I picked it up. Now I'm walking along the street with a plastic bag in my hand. As I walked I spotted additional trash along the sidewalk. Since there was a bag in my hand I felt compelled to pick up the additional trash and put it in my bag; so I did. By the time we reached home, my bag was full and I felt as if I had done something to help the community. It cost nothing to accomplish and it made me feel much better about myself. The next morning I repeated the process. The morning after that I repeated the process and the next and the next and the next. Now five days a week, five miles a day trash is removed from a few streets.
Mystic River Trash Haulers
We are Will Kostick and Faith Gude of West Medford, MA. Our mission is to clean up and remove the trash from the Mystic River, its watershed, and other rivers in the Greater Boston Area.
Green Up Vermont
Green Up Vermont is a nonprofit organization with 501(c) (3) status. Green Up's mission is to promote the stewardship of our state's natural landscape and waterways and the livability of our communities by involving people in Green Up Day and raising public awareness about the benefits of a litter-free environment.
Lets do it! World
Let's Do It! movement is inviting people to join the global community of garbage mappers! World Waste Map - an easy-to-use free online tool, that everyone can use to map the illegal garbage in any area in the world. By using free applications for iPhone and Android phones, it's possible to send the data and locations of the most troubling dumping areas to an open virtual world waste map, which is visible to everyone online.
Note Green Up Vermont has made connections with folks in Estonia and the "Lets do it! World" regarding using litter for art.
Artist at Exit 0 Riverblog I am an artist and art advocate. In addition to making and exhibiting my own artwork, I have an extensive background in the visual arts. I also have a love for the natural world which informs the art I make.
The Flotsam Diaries Since February 29 (when I finally got down to a clean "baseline" from which to work), I've collected nearly 12,000 pieces of washed-in garbage! (This after the 15221 pieces I collected in 2010-2012 from Bayview beach, Saco.) About 75% comes directly from the lobster fishing industry. (Other pieces, like the many bits of coffee cup lids, speak at least anecdotally to early-morning boating.) Every father reaches that moment, when he knows he has to change the world for his little girl.
Flotsam Weaving (Jo Atherton)
I am an artist who creates intricate tapestries with flotsam gathered from the Atlantic coast of Cornwall. Jutting out into the North Atlantic Current, a tributary of the Gulf Stream, the Cornish coast serves as a unique collection point for material from all over the planet. Balloons from France, fishing gear from The Netherlands, toys from the USA and even lobster trap tags from Canada have found their way into my varied tapestries.
Jo's Tex X talk
The Crap Fairy I take care of the verges of the roads around where I live in North Yorkshire, UK – every week in the Summer, less often in the Winter, I pick up rubbish that people have thrown from their cars and I recycle whatever’s recyclable. Then I write my blog based on what I find, which usually leads me into a short reflection about life, the universe and everything – and especially about litter.
As you will quickly see from my blog, I care very much about the natural world and the way that human activity impacts on it – both for good and for bad.
Litterati is the library of litter. Using instagram to crowdsource clean the planet. (recording, cataloging, picked up and discarded pieces of litter from photos tweeted or facebooked to Literati from individuals around the world.)
Most active states using Litterati
Litterati video
This Start Up...
The Daily OceanAs you will quickly see from my blog, I care very much about the natural world and the way that human activity impacts on it – both for good and for bad.
Litterati is the library of litter. Using instagram to crowdsource clean the planet. (recording, cataloging, picked up and discarded pieces of litter from photos tweeted or facebooked to Literati from individuals around the world.)
Most active states using Litterati
Litterati video
This Start Up...
I collect trash from the same beach for 20 minutes at a time. My goal is to do this for 365 non-consecutive days. My average is one beach cleanup every three days.
Peaceful protest against litter I live in Belgium (Europe). I organise clean up events and pick litter regularly. Through my blog and facebook page and through the sharing of pictures and ideas I love to connect with other voluntary litter-pickers on the planet. I truely believe that together we can make a difference...
Citzens Against Litter We are people of all ages. We are a loosely connected group of Pittsburgh residents and merchants who are passionate about picking up litter in our neighborhoods. We are involved in the Redd Up Pittsburgh movement.
Sheilas Schlog-Litter prevention Program. Founder of the Litter Prevention Program, and prior worked as a communications ace and PR strategist for some of Ontario's top political names. Sheila White is President of Toronto's WORDS Media & Communications Inc., the creator of a variety of communication products and services under the company's two divisions: Serious and Fun. As founder of the Litter Prevention Program, Sheila combines her true passions: music, education and the environment.
Cleaning beaches Removing plastic from the ocean, one bag at a time.
Shoreline Cleanups
Rozalia Project: Adventures in Ocean Clean-up Adventures in Ocean cleanup.
I Rcmd. the TedX talk - We can clean the Ocean. (on the Rozalia web site)
In Vermont (2012) Rozalia Project put 41 people back to work and cleaned over 500,000 pieces of trash from along Lake Champlain and Vermont’s rivers as part of Irene recovery and partnership with the VT Dept. of Labor.
Keep Canada Clean, Surrey BC We have cleaned up our corner and called the city countless times to come pick up the latest things that have been dumped. On December 4, 2011, I decided to take my camera on my daily walks and photograph what I found. You may also be dismayed at the amount of trash that I was able to document in the 12 days before Christmas 2011. But then I walk my dog every day and now that I'm in the habit of carrying my camera, I have continued to document the mess I see everywhere.
Clean and Lean - Our Blog One morning walking along Hillcrest Road in Mobile, AL, a plastic bag was blowing along the street. Wanting to keep it out of the storm drain, I picked it up. Now I'm walking along the street with a plastic bag in my hand. As I walked I spotted additional trash along the sidewalk. Since there was a bag in my hand I felt compelled to pick up the additional trash and put it in my bag; so I did. By the time we reached home, my bag was full and I felt as if I had done something to help the community. It cost nothing to accomplish and it made me feel much better about myself. The next morning I repeated the process. The morning after that I repeated the process and the next and the next and the next. Now five days a week, five miles a day trash is removed from a few streets.
Mystic River Trash Haulers
We are Will Kostick and Faith Gude of West Medford, MA. Our mission is to clean up and remove the trash from the Mystic River, its watershed, and other rivers in the Greater Boston Area.
Green Up Vermont
Green Up Vermont is a nonprofit organization with 501(c) (3) status. Green Up's mission is to promote the stewardship of our state's natural landscape and waterways and the livability of our communities by involving people in Green Up Day and raising public awareness about the benefits of a litter-free environment.
Lets do it! World
Let's Do It! movement is inviting people to join the global community of garbage mappers! World Waste Map - an easy-to-use free online tool, that everyone can use to map the illegal garbage in any area in the world. By using free applications for iPhone and Android phones, it's possible to send the data and locations of the most troubling dumping areas to an open virtual world waste map, which is visible to everyone online.
Note Green Up Vermont has made connections with folks in Estonia and the "Lets do it! World" regarding using litter for art.
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