Great American Cleanup Campaign in Hampton - the April Update!May 7, 2010April was Hampton Clean City Commission’s Solid Waste Awareness Month, and volunteers made it a stand-out month! Thanks to all who participated in keeping Hampton Clean & Beautiful in April 2010! Volunteers cleaned, planted trees, read environmental stories to children, and so much more! Adopt-A-Spot volunteers reported 49 cleanups, and the numbers are still rolling in. 306 volunteers removed 210 bags of trash from public areas throughout the month, and picked up more than 16,000 cigarette ends. They contributed nearly 600 hours of time to keeping Hampton clean and beautiful – that’s the equivalent of 15 weeks of paid staff time! The groups contributing to the Great American Cleanup Campaign in April were:
Tour de Trash was the best yet – 37 participants and a trip to the top of the landfill! Thanks to Hampton Parks & Recreation, Bethel Landfill, VPPSA Composting Facility, the Hampton Steam Plant, Branscome Construction, ARC of the Virginia Peninsula, and TFC Recycling for hosting our trash tourists. Volunteers planted 250 tree seedlings in a riparian buffer plantings at four locations. Bald cypress, river birch, and red-osier dogwood were planted to help soak up runoff and stabilize waterway shorelines. Volunteers conducted two litter-free events at the International Children’s Festival and the Peninsula Pathfinders Litter-Free Volksmarch at Sandy Bottom Nature Park. Volunteers set up and staffed displays at the Family Learning Day Project at the Air & Space Center, the International Children’s Festival, the Spring/Earth Day Festival at Thomas Nelson Community College. Volunteers and staff from Langley Air Force Base and the Clean City Commission read Earth Day Stories at Burbank and Langley Elementary Schools. Among the selections were "Michael Recycle", "Michael Recycle Meets Litterbug Doug", and the "Wartville Wizard". A rain barrel workshop was held on April 17th, cosponsored by the Friends of Bluebird Gap Farm. Volunteers from Langley Air Force Base conducted Keep Schools Beautiful projects at Tucker-Capps and Langley Elementary Schools. The YARDS Contest (Yards Are Really Distinctive Showplaces) kicked off in April with the annual YARDS Judges Training. Old Point National Bank was selected as the spring Hampton Clean Business Award winner and recognized at the Virginia Peninsula Clean Business Forum breakfast. Channel 47 is featuring our last Clean Business Award winner, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, in a segment that will include an interview with our Clean & Green Business Chair, John Golden. Presentations were made to the Hampton Administrative Support Group, the Northampton Community Center After-School Program, and the Tucker-Capps Citizen of the Month program. Many thanks to Cecilia and Khalilah Thompson, who donated and planted two roses in front of the Commission office! For more information about how you can be part of the Great American Cleanup Campaign and Hampton Clean City Commission’s effort to Keep Hampton Beautiful, contact us at hccc@hampton.gov or 727-1130. ### Media Contact: Debbie Blanton, Hampton Clean City Commission Coordinator
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