Town-wide Cleanup for Earth Month
Submitted by: Claire Golding, Environmental Action Committee Chair
Contact Phone: 978-333-9425
Re: Town-wide Cleanup for Earth Month
Town-wide Cleanup in Princeton for Earth Month
For the second consecutive year, a group of Princeton residents is organizing a town-wide Earth Month cleanup in honor of Earth Day (April 22). Princeton’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC) and Open Space Committee (OSC) are organizing this effort. Cleanup will begin April 1, or as soon as most of the snow has melted, whichever comes first. To make the project even more fun than last year, prizes will be given for the best photos of the cleanup effort, and for the most interesting and most disgusting trash discoveries of the month.
The cleanup effort has three components: Roadsides in town; parks and playgrounds; and trails.
For roadsides, residents choose a section or sections of roads to clean up, and sign up to do the cleanup work by the end of April, on their own schedules. Residents who would like to sign up for a section of road should email PrincetonEarthMonthCleanup@gmail.com and indicate which sections of which roads they’d like to clean. Interested residents can also call or email one of the organizers listed below. Residents are asked to dispose of trash individually, and to report back when they’ve completed the work. Organizers would like to hear from everyone who is cleaning up the roads so that everyone can be acknowledged. Also, please keep count of the bags of trash you collect! EAC and OSC would like to compare tallies from year to year as we go forward.
For parks and playgrounds, Earth Month organizers will be asking specific groups in town to help out. Any resident or group with a particular interest in cleaning up parks or playgrounds, however, should feel free to contact one of the organizers.
Trail clearing and cleanup will be done by a variety of volunteers. Please email the organizers if you are particularly interested in trail work.
The health and safety of all volunteers is a priority. Note that all cleanup is done at participants’ own risk, and it’s important to be careful on any roadway. Please visit the Earth Month page https://www.town.princeton.ma.us/open-space-committee/pages/yearly-princ... to review safety procedures, view the cleanup map, and read about the entire Earth Month project.
To contact the organizers:
Rick Gardner: rick.s.gardner@gmail.com
Claire Golding: cmowbraygolding@gmail.com
Corey Burnham-Howard: cburnhamhoward@gmail.com
Karen Rossow: krossow2@gmail.com
Laurie Kraemer: lauriekraemer@hotmail.com
Rick Rys: rickrys1@gmail.com
Main email address for group: PrincetonEarthMonthCleanup@gmail.com