Here's why:
- Many of Agawam's streets are littered with trash.
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| Trash from a Feeding Hills Street |
- This trash is harmful to pets and wildlife.
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| Puppies eat trash, especially if it is a food wrapper. |
- This trash may enter storm drains and flow directly into our streams, rivers and finally into the ocean contributing to Ocean Garbage Patches.
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| A dead albratross that ate plastic from the ocean mistaking it for food. Photo credit:www.ChrisJordan.com |
Here's how you can help.
- Pick an area (small or large) that is littered and register your area with the DPW at 821-0624.
- Bring a bag or two and wear gloves.
- Join others on Saturday May 2nd from 9am-noon and clean up that area.
- Take before and after photos of that area and send them to agawam.ma.us/DPW and also share them with others via social media.
- Consider adopting your area and keeping it clean all year.
- Ask other residents, businesses, and civic organizations to join.
- Consider saving old bags that you would normally throw out (such as large dog food bags) and use them as trash bags to save resources.
- Put bagged trash with your weekly trash pick-up. If the trash is from a local business, ask that business if you may use their dumpster.
- If you have any metal items to move, call Mr. T's Trash Removal at 413-205-7082.
- Several Girl Scout Brownie Troops have already volunteered to help with this challenge!!
- The SAVE Club and Environmental Sciences Classes at Agawam High School are organizing clean-ups of the school grounds.
A litter free town is possible when we change the current culture to the culture of AGAWAM CLEAN. There are a number of beautiful litter-free places thoughout out the world and Agawam can be one of them. Let's put Agawam on that litter-free map.
