Projects and Programs
Great American Cleanup
2010
Organized by Keep America
Beautiful, the Great American Cleanup is the nation’s largest
community improvement program and takes place annually from
March 1 through May 31. In the Blackstone Valley, activities for
this year’s Great American Cleanup include beautifying parks and
recreation areas, cleaning waterways, organizing recycling
collections, picking up litter, planting flowers and trees and
conducting educational programs. We hope you will join us to
make this year’s Great American Cleanup the biggest and best
yet!
View 2010 Schedule
To volunteer or participate in
an event, please contact Matt DeMello at 401-724-2200 or
mdemello@wndc.org.
You may search for events by date or by location.
Blackstone Valley
2008 Great American Cleanup Results
This year’s Great American
Cleanup was a great success, with more than 900 volunteers
donating 2,328 hours over 26 events throughout the 9 cities and
towns in Rhode Island’s Blackstone Valley. These hardworking
volunteers collected 63,273 pounds of trash along 84 miles of
road, river and shoreline, and hiking and biking trails and
recycled 3,212 tires and 62,500 pounds of electronics, a record
for the Keep Blackstone Valley Beautiful program.
Volunteers also participated in
a variety of beautification projects, such as planting 550
flowers, painting a large-scale mural in a playground, restoring
community buildings, and creating new gardens and greenspaces.
Congratulations to everyone
that participated; together we are truly keeping Blackstone
Valley beautiful. I hope to see you all during the 2009 Great
American Cleanup!
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Under this put 2007 GAC
Cleanup Results, which are currently at the bottom of the
page
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And under that, add 2006
GAC Cleanup Results:
Blackstone Valley 2007
Great American Cleanup Results
Over 1,000 volunteers, spent
3,300 hours, collecting 120 tons of trash, along 85 miles of
roads, river and shoreline, and hiking and biking trails.
Five beautification projects
were completed, four community and commercial buildings were
improved, 350 acres of public land, wetlands, and parks were
cleaned and improved.
Beautification was apparent
with 485 flowers and 700 new trees being planted.
Great job to everyone that
participated we look forward to making the 2008 Great American
Cleanup even more successful!
Blackstone Valley
2006 Great American Cleanup Results
It is amazing what 1,236
volunteers can do! Under this year’s Great American Cleanup,
these volunteers donated 4,247 hours of their time and cleaned
up 47,600 pounds of trash along 61 miles of road, river and
shoreline, and hiking and biking trails and 224 acres of
wetlands and public land and parks. They recycled 3,576 tires
and 20,433 pounds of electronics, planted 60 flowers and 9
trees, and undertook 6 community beautification projects.
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Should we have a link at
the bottom to archive the 2008 GAC dates and information? I
think it is too confusing if all of that is on the same
page.
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At the bottom of the GAC
page, the “2007 Event Info” page doesn’t exist.
See Tire Round Up Event Info |
See E-Waste and Recycling Event Info
2008 Calendar
