Litter Prevention & Cleanup
- Under the 2007 Great
American Cleanup, over 1,000 volunteers participated in 9
litter cleanups around the Blackstone Valley, picking up
over 115 tons of litter.
Waste prevention &
recycling
- The Keep Blackstone Valley
Beautiful coordinator and AmeriCorps*VISTA member, Kristin
Zawistowski, became a certified Master Composter & Recycler
through the University of Rhode Island.
- The Return the Warmth
recycling program gave the Blackstone Valley 2,000 fleece
jackets, produced from recycled PET plastic bottles, to all
9 Blackstone Valley communities due to the PET bottle
collection efforts of the students of St. Brendan School in
East Providence. The program was sponsored nationally by
Sam’s Club and Aquafina.
- Students for Recycling,
the 2007 version of “Return the Warmth,” helped to implement
a plastic bottle recycling program at Shea High School and
Blackstone Academy Charter School with the help of the City
of Pawtucket.
- The Blackstone Valley Tire
Round Up along with Firestone Complete Auto Care in
Pawtucket, Bill’s Auto Parts, Rhode Island Service Alliance
and AmeriCorps Week collected over 1,000 tires for
recycling.
- Our E-waste recycling
collections collected 21,000 pounds of electronic waste,
preventing harmful chemicals from getting into our
environment.
Beautification
- Keep Blackstone Valley
Beautiful sat on the Earth Day Host Committee, working with
the City of Pawtucket, Pawtucket Citizens Development
Corporation, The Pawtucket Foundation, City Year RI &
National & Global Youth Service Day, Pawtucket Weed & Seed
and the Boys and Girls Club to beautify sites in the Barton
Street Neighborhood, including the Community Garden.
- Work continued through
Pawtucket Proud Day, The Pawtucket’s Foundation’s
beautification event to involve the business community.
Projects included the demolition of the Varieur Playground,
painting the YWCA, painting and removing graffiti from the
Roosevelt Ave. bus stop, improving and mulching Hodson Park
& the Slater Mill, planting trees and staining benches at
Perez Park and mulching, painting and planting downtown
gateways.
- Keep Blackstone Valley
Beautiful completed the YWCA project with Leadership Rhode
Island in August.
- Work continued in the
Barton Street Neighborhood Association’s Community Garden to
set up and maintain a compost bin.
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