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Keeping Raleigh Beautiful – One Trash Bag at a Time

Keeping Raleigh Beautiful – One Trash Bag at a Time

Who likes looking at trash along the road? Litter hurts our economy. It can be a major turnoff for businesses looking to relocate or tourists visiting the area. Litter is a human health problem. It attracts mosquitoes and rodents and could unleash chemicals into our groundwater. Litter is deadly to wildlife. It can suffocate wildlife when mistaken for food or harmful if entangled in the trash.

In September, The Junior Woman’s Club of Raleigh Conservation Community Service Program (CSP) spearheaded an Adopt-A-Highway project. About a quarter of our club’s members participated by collecting and sorting litter and recyclable materials. For many years, the Junior Woman’s Club of Raleigh has been responsible for keeping a two-mile stretch of Glenwood Avenue clean in between Woman’s Club Drive and Sanderson Drive.  The Conservation CSP organizes Adopt-A-Highway clean-ups about four times a year.

The JWC of Raleigh is one of the 6,000 Adopt-A-Highway groups that have adopted approximately 12,000 miles of N.C. roadsides.  In partnership between community volunteers and the NCDOT, Adopt-A-Highway is a volunteer driven litter cleanup program. The NCDOT provides orange safety vests, gloves, orange bags for miscellaneous litter and blue bags for items to be recycles.

We encourage you to keep NC clean! Here are some additional tips for being green:

  • Bring your own reusable bag when you are shopping.
  • Turn off electronics before you go to bed.
  • Replace air filters regularly.
  • Switch to Energy Star-rated light bulbs.
  • Configure your office printer or copy machine to print two-sided.

For more information on litter prevention, beautification, waste reduction and recycling, visit keepncbeautiful.org

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