LitterProject

Please join this Ireland Facebook Group and participate on the beautiful Emerald Isle and beyond.

Many thanks to Sinead for getting this started!

From the fb page:

‘One Piece of Litter a Day – Ireland’ is an anti-litter campaign that aims to reverse the growing litter epidemic in our beautiful country. The philosophy is simple but powerful: If one person picked up an empty can, bottle or cigarette butt each day for a year, there would be 365 less pieces of rubbish blighting our land. Now imagine what would happen if 1,000, 10,000 or even 100,000 people in Ireland did the same. Collectively, we could make a real impact on our litter problem.

To be a success, this campaign needs YOU. Will you make the small but significant change in your daily life and commit to picking up one piece of litter a day?

We encourage you to help if you are in the area! Saturday, April 26th

The Swain County Chamber of Commerce is asking the community to lend a hand and join us for the first ever Swain County Clean & Green Litter Project. This event will take place Saturday, April 26th from 2:00-5:00pm. Volunteers are asked to meet at Riverside Park in 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…