Individual/Family

The Diamond Family celebrated a rainy, muddy Earth Day by cleaning up Morgan Frederick Grade. It was tough work but they had a great family time doing a good thing.

Unfortunately covid-19 physical distancing requirements on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day meant a solitary trash cleanup project, not the neighborhood-wide event I envisioned. Proud to have removed this from the street & prevented it from entering nearby streams.

I got tired of seeing litter during my daily evening commute and decided to enlist my friend Heidi to help me clean the 1/10 mile stretch of the I-66 exit ramp in Vienna, VA. We found 84 putrid, waterlogged Washington Post newspapers in their plastic bags, along with the usual suspects: single-use plastic bottles, fast food containers, plastic bags, cups with plastic lids & straws, liquor bottles, beer cans, cigarette butts, and other foul-smelling detritus in various stages of disintegration. We can do better for ourselves, for wildlife, for our watershed, and for our planet.

In just under 1.5 miles, I collected 10 pounds of trash. One plastic piece was pretty
heavy and accounted for most of the weight, but I did fill 3 grocery bags full.

I nominate friend, jogger and all around good egg Cristin Emrick who picks up litter on a regular basis all around Smithfield. She regularly says, its not her litter, but it is her town. She usually combines her cleanups with some jogging, hence the Swedish custom of plogging.

Dave Haynes pick up 25 bags of trash, a bale of old fencing, and an old projection screen TV. All picked up on the 13, 14,and 15 of September, 2019.

Lots of wood planks from roofing materials all over the roadside. it took me a while to pile them up but now they are ready for pick up

Only in our area can someone loose part of their trash load and keep going. where are the signs about littering being illegal?

After moving to Dinwiddie County in December, we realized there was a need to clean up the road we lived on! Have meet many neighbors and community members while out picking up!!!!

we are excited to start working on adopting a new section of “Fairfax County Parkway”
if you see us there picking up trash, it is OK to honk.