Free Use of a Dumpster for Your Cleanup
We’re still celebrating our 70th Anniversary of our organization with 35 Green Gifts for you! We want to give you access to the tools needed to get out there and improve the natural and scenic environment of Virginia!
Sometimes you need more than buckets or trash bags to tackle large jobs. We’re grateful for support from Dumpsters.com to help you tackle that project! They will provide free delivery and use of a roll off dumpster, which is a large, open-top waste container. The containers also have a swing door allows the user easier access to load large or heavy items from the ground, instead of throwing them in from the top.
Dumpsters are ideal for large projects, such as:
-
-
- Items from illegal dumping sights
- Trail clearing of large branches, debris, and invasive species
- Clearing debris from an abandoned house
-
Please be mindful not to include items that can be repurposed, donated, or recycled, including cardboard or metal that may have scrap value, to keep those types of items out of the landfill.
If this sounds like something your group is ready to tackle, please apply for a Green Gift from Dumpsters.com before October 15, 2023. Please see the guidelines on our website.
We have other Green Gifts were giving away too!
On the opposite side of large-scale cleanups is small – very small litter. Did you know that nine out of ten pieces of litter on the ground in the U.S. were under four inches in size, and cigarette butts continue to be the single most littered item in America (Keep America Beautiful 2021 Litter Study). In case you need to explain it to people who think that cigarette butts decompose, you can tell them that cigarette butt filters are made of cellulose acetate, a man-made plastic material that contains hundreds of toxic chemicals that are dangerous to wildlife and waterways.
One other category of Green Gifts that we’re giving away is for those of you who are concerned about cigarette butt litter. We’d like to help restaurants, businesses, libraries, municipalities, and others start a Cigarette Litter Prevention Program. We will give away the needed supplies, including a mounted receptacle, 10 car cup ashtrays, and 50 pocket ashtrays, to encourage others to collect cigarette butts, along with our support for your program.
Then the next step after collecting them is to send the cigarette butts (at no cost) to TerraCycle, a company dedicated to recycling the hard-to-recycle items. The process the cellulose acetate plastic in cigarette filters into pellets, and create new items, like sturdy benches for your public spaces.
If this sounds like something your group is ready to tackle, please apply for a Cigarette Litter Prevention Green Gift before October 15, 2023. Please see the guidelines on our website.