LitterProject

Americans produce enough trash every year to fill a line of garbage trucks that would stretch from the Earth half-way to the moon. With Earth Day approaching LitterProject.com and Carbonfund.org are asking for your help to turn litter — and properly disposed rubbish — into local, renewable fuel sources.

Methane landfill biodigesters like the ones Read the rest of this entry »

1) be willing to do the activity alone, and enjoy it

2) make the time, place and duration explicitly clear to everyone you tell about it

3) INVITE people. Don’t coerce, try to sell it to them, or overly control their participation. When invited, most people will bring something to the clean up effort that really makes really work.

4) keep it simple. Cleaning up trash is easy. All you need are garbage bags, places to put the trash, and gloves (rakes and shovels can’t hurt either!) Tell potential participants that these are the raw materials, but bring enough Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks for coming! This blog is meant to replace our old bulletin board. Please use this blog to share ideas about cleaning up litter, once piece at a time… or details about larger-scale clean up projects.

Helpful hints, announcements of clean ups, stories, ideas, etc. are most welcome, and we encourage you to share them freely on this blog. Just register and login to leave a reply.

Please do not use this blog for profanity or for commercial purposes unless your product is available at a discount to LitterProject participants and directly supports environmental clean up projects.

Thanks for coming and have a great day…