just like Vermonters been doing every year since the first Green Up Day in 1970, we'll be stepping out together on the first Saturday in May to clean up roadside trash all across the state. Last year's effort cleared nearly 500 tons of trash statewide. Pretty cool.
So join the Green Up Day fun on Saturday, May 6, here in Lincoln. Clean roadsides are rewarding enough, but some pretty great raffle prizes are in the mix for trash picker-uppers.
Details: Starting April 22 (Earth Day!), you can pick up Green Up trash collection bags at the general store, library, and town office. You will also be able to pick them up on Green Up Day at the firehouse, from 8-12.
There will be a dumpster at the firehouse on Saturday, May 6, from 8:00-1:00 for Green Up garbage. The Lincoln Conservation Commission will have a table at the firehouse from 8-noon, with refreshments, Green Up bags, gloves, and raffle tickets and jars. You'll get a raffle ticket for each Green Up bag you drop off at the Firehouse. You can put those raffle tickets into drawings for great gift cards for local businesses like the Bobcat, Recycled Reading, Simon Says, and more. The drawing will be at noon, so get an early start!
The dumpster is, of course, for Green Up roadside garbage only. Tires must obviously be ones that were found in ditches. Green up bags only, not household trash bags.
If you won't be in town on Saturday, you can do your trash pickup early and arrange with a neighbor to bring it to the firehouse for you on Saturday. PLEASE DON'T leave your full bags by the side of the road--there isn't a pick-up service. But if you happen to see a bag by the roadside on Saturday morning, please bring it to the firehouse--you'll get a raffle ticket for it!
Some trash pick-up suggestions:
• Wear long pants and boots and check for ticks when you're done.
• If you see a needle or sharp object, find an adult to deal with it. Put it in a thick plastic container, and duct tape the lid on, then put it into trash.
• Assume drivers aren't paying attention. Always work facing oncoming traffic. Wear bright clothing.
• Collect returnables in a separate bag. Consider donating them to the Lincoln Historical Society (trailer outside the town office).
• Wear gloves.
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