150 Cleanups in May
With Your Help We Can Do It!
April 19, 2011
The Hampton Clean City Commission's Litter Awareness Committee has set a goal for our city to achieve 150 cleanups this May. We're asking you to help us achieve it - in fact, we really can't do it without your help.
Why a huge cleanup month? Because it has been a long, hard winter, and summer is coming. We need to get our public areas cleaned up in preparation for the summer heat as well as the summer fun. The summer winds and thunderstorms will wash thousands of pieces of trash into our waterways if we don't pick them up. Also, the Hampton Clean City Commission is participating in the Great American Cleanup Campaign coordinated by Keep America Beautiful.
Who should help? All of us need to help. While not all of us littered our trash, it affects all of us anyway. Littered streets, parks, and schools lead to increasingly littered streets, parks, and schools. Littered neighborhoods lose property value. Littered businesses lose customers. Here in our city, with more than 630 miles of storm drains and ditches, all litter is just feet away from a waterway.
If you are an individual, a family member, a neighbor, a member of a faith community, a civic association member, a professional association member, a manager or an employee of a company, an employee in a governmental agency, a civic, religious, elected, or appointed leader, or have any other association in Hampton, we're asking YOU to help!
How can you help? Glad you asked! All you have to do is contact the Hampton Clean City Commission to sign up for litter cleanup equipment. We'll gladly loan you litter sticks, safety vests, and work gloves for your cleanup efforts and provide as many trash bags as you need. Also, thanks to Nestle' Pure Life, we'll be able to provide bottled water for your cleanup group. Go to Adopt-A-Spot Supplies Request Form to request supplies. Or you can e-mail us at hccc@hampton.gov or call us at 727-1130.
If you want to pick up litter in your neighborhood, but don't want to borrow our equipment, we'd love to know about your cleanup efforts and thank you for cleaning up. Report your cleanup and we'll thank you privately and publicly, if you don't mind.
As always, when it comes to cleanups, it's much better to be safe than sorry, so if you don't borrow our equipment, we still ask that you follow the safety rules.
Please help us achieve our goal of 150 cleanups in May and a cleaner and more beautiful city? We appreciate your support and look forward to your help. Thank you!
For more information contact hccc@hampton.gov or call 727-1130. Visit us on Facebook.
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Media Contact: Debbie Blanton, Hampton Clean City Commission Coordinator