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?

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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 Bryson City. Directions and supplies will be given to all volunteers, as well as the designated areas of pick-up.

An after-party will follow the litter project at Riverside Park complete with live music, food, children’s art activities, and more. In addition, The Green Women will be available to provide information and answer questions about green living. Please come out and join us in effort to make Swain County, our beautiful mountain home, a cleaner and greener place to live and visit.

For more information please contact the Swain County Chamber of Commerce at 828-488-3681 or email your questions to: chamber@greatsmokies.com   |    Clean & Green Press Release

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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 yourself to cover half-a-dozen people who come without .

5) have fun doing it. After all, you and everyone else will be actively making the world a better place… really. MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE! (this is what inspires me, and probably you, and probably most people who do things like this).

6) tell lots of people, including the press. Just call them up and tell them what, when, where you are doing what you are doing. Even if you wind up alone out there, you will still peak interest, and people may want to join you next time. Please feel free to use “www.LitterProject.com” as a resource/organizing principal. And feel free to forward chunks of the press release to any news organizations you contact (having something written that can be “cut and pasted” can increase likelihood of publication)

finally–and probably most important–

7) remind people and yourself that what you are doing matters by telling incidents and specifics about how it matters to you. Just the simple truth will inspire others. You can talk about what you have done to date, and the people you met along the way. The happy callouses… You can even say how you were online and found this idea, and decided to be a Promotor of the LitterProject, or talk about your own cause.

Once people experience their own daily ability to make a difference, they will probably keep it up on their own—and maybe do even do a project in their neck of the woods…

Oh yes, and if it is easy enough for you, bring some food treats for other participants as a surprise. Maybe cookies or little chocolates or something– cheap and easy is my motto on this. You can always go for coffee afterward if that works better too…

I hope this information is enough for you to move forward, because frankly, this idea needs people like you to make it work.

Best wishes in your LitterProject, and thank you for all you do!

The shortest answer is doing. – English Proverb

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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…

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