Ferrum College Highway Clean Up April 2019
This is the Ag Young Farmers Club spending an afternoon building friendships and taking care of their home town away from home.
KVB
About KVB
Posts by KVB :
Pinecrest School K-Kids
Pinecrest School K-Kids cleans its Adopt a Highway stretch in Annandale, VA on 3/29/19!
Clifton Cycling Club giving back to our local community
As a way to give back to our local community on April 7, 2019 the Clifton Cycling Club teamed up to clean up Newman Rd in Clifton. This was our second clean up in the past 6 months and we’ve collected 28 bags of trash so far. Thank you to our Clifton neighbors for sharing the road with us.
We want to “STOP” littering!
Our team got together to clean up Copper Creek Lane in Henrico County, Virginia. In just 2 hours we collected 232 lbs of litter! We left the road looking better, as well as better for the environment. We had fun too!
We Accept the #TrashTag Challenge!
Our office is in Henrico County, just west of Richmond. And we’ll admit, we spend a fair amount of time there. We reach out to our affiliates, tough base with our partners, encourage and celebrate our members, and more. It’s kind of the headquarters for our stewardship of VDOT’s Adopt-A-Highway program, and we coordinate our team leaders across the Commonwealth.
But sometimes it’s good to get out of the office.
March 20th was officially the first day of Spring, and also the kickoff for the annual Great American Cleanup. We used that joyous occasion to accept our own #TrashTag Challenge.
If you’ve missed that, the #TrashTag Challenge dares you to claim a spot as your own, clean it, and then post before & after pictures. It’s become a viral sensation.
We joined with our friends from Keep Henrico Beautiful and the Henrico Citizen to #TrashTag our own stretch of roadway right by the office. In a few hours, we we collected 165 pounds of trash and 67 pounds of recyclables along Copper Creek Lane.
What did YOU do?
Smithfield North, and Packers Sanitation Services, Smithfield Corporate Offices, and Premium Pet Health pick up trash on Berry Hill Road
Berry Hill Road Cleanup – Joint Effort between North, Corporate, Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI), and Premium Pet Health
On 1/18/2019 a Berry Hill Road Cleanup took place with participants from Smithfield North,PSSI, Premium Pet Health, and the Corporate office. 45 bags of trash were gathered weighing approximately 1,350 lbs total. There were 19 participants total.
You Want Me to WHAT?
Have you recuperated from the Holidays? Tons of great food? Time with family? Gift giving and receiving? Football games and falling asleep on the couch?
If you’re like us, you likely made a few New Years Resolutions as well.
This year, we’ll lose some weight. In 2019, we’ll participate in a cleanup. We’re going to set aside a few dollars to give to a worthy cause, like keeping Virginia beautiful.
Friends, Shiver in the River is an opportunity to do all of that.
Just like the first four years of this fantastic event, our day will start out with a cleanup around the James River. A core part of our mission is litter prevention, and part of that is picking up litter where we see it. Last year, over 500 people joined us to do their part, and we removed a lot of rubbish from James River Park, leaving it much more beautiful than we entered it.
We also had over 400 participate in our 5K Walk/Run. Some were in it to win it. Some just came for the scenery. After all, our race route takes you from Historic Tredegar, across the beautiful Potterfield Bridge, along the banks of the James, and all around James River Park. It’s truly the most beautiful 5K route in Virginia.
Over 200 brave souls raised money by doing the James River Jump – a brief and brisk dip into the mighty river. Jumpers received towels and quickly retreated to our heated tents for food and drink, but they helped us to raise much-needed funds to continue to grow our mission.
Let’s be clear – you don’t HAVE to jump into the river to enjoy Shiver in the River. You don’t HAVE to participate in the cleanup to make a difference. Many just came to enjoy the food, drink, and music, and signed our pledge to do their part to keep Virginia beautiful.
This year, you can help from the comfort of your sofa. For a donation of $25, we’ll send you a super-deluxe pair of Shiver in the River warm knit gloves! You won’t even have to leave the house.
But we would love to see you. This event has gotten bigger and better each year, and is always a wonderful and joy-filled day. Bring your friends. Bring your family. And, yes, bring your dog.
SCRAP RVA Makes Most of Green Grant
Each year, we award between thirty and 35 Green Grants to groups, schools, and organizations that share our mission to keep Virginia beautiful. SCRAP RVA was one such recipient. They recently reached out to tell us the good work they’ve been able to do with their 30 in Thirty Green Grant:
“SCRAP RVA provides three important components to the Richmond community. First, SCRAP RVA enhances environmental awareness and sustainable behavior, by reducing the steady flow of materials into the waste stream and promoting the use of reclaimed supplies. Second, SCRAP RVA provides educational programs that promote a more creatively active and environmentally aware citizenry. Third, SCRAP RVA increases access to education and materials, by providing a low-cost alternative to for-profit stores and workshops.
The 30 in Thirty Grant supported SCRAP RVA’s mission to provide low/no cost educational experiences in the community promoting young people’s excitement about recycling and upcycling. Through our Summer Studio Upcycling project we conducted seven free workshops with a total of 83 youth participants. During each workshop the Artist/Educators asked open-ended questions about creative reuse. They encouraged the students to have fun, explore, and allow the materials and activities to spark their own upcycling ideas.
We were pleased to expand our geographic reach by conducting workshops in the City of Richmond (one at VCU; two at the Downtown Main Branch Library; two at Fox Elementary School in the Fan District), and surrounding counties (one in Chesterfield County at Girls for a Change headquarters and one in New Kent County at Gethsemane Church).”
Using a 30 in Thirty Green Grant to Stub Out Butts!
Each year, we’re able to give out a ton of Green Grants to groups and organizations across the Commonwealth for projects that align with our mission to keep Virginia beautiful. Since 2011, we’ve awarded over $203,000 for 260 projects. The Green Grant for the Town of Kilmarnock was one such award.
We’ll let them explain why they applied:
“The park opened in 2017 and we have been struggling with cigarette litter. Our Mayor and staff go to the park every day and within one week we have gathered 100’s of cigarette butts people have tossed in the park! Most of the litter is found in the grass off the sidewalks and even with designated smoking areas, people still are not placing their litter where it belongs. They are tossing it near children’s areas, vendor lots, and walking paths.
This grant would allow our park staff to place more ash receptacles at our high traffic transition points with the phrase ” Park your butts here.” We think the slogan fits very nice with our park and will hopefully grab the attention of these guilty offenders. We also would be able to place informational signs on these receptacles and better educate people what they are doing to our park.”
This sounded like a worthy project, so we awarded them a Green Grant to get started:
“This project has been amazing! The results are great! We went from 100’s of nasty cigarette butts to NONE on the ground around the children’s areas in the matter of 9 weeks! It has been such an amazing project for the park that we have had talks about introducing it to the Town and adding the signs and more urns to the sidewalks on our streets. The children’s areas are cleaner and parents have complimented on the no smoking signs and how happy they are to see no butts on the grounds where their children play. We added 3 no smoking signs around the Splash Pad as well as 2 informational signs when entering the children’s areas. As well as signs attached to the urns. Mr. Don’t Be A Butt has been very well received in our community and the project has been a huge success! It will continue at the park for years to come as well as hopes of moving it to other areas of the community.”
This is what we can do with the help of folks like you.