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You can sign up to help make our open spaces cleaner. We are coordinating an open space cleanup around the same week as the SRCA Fall Cleanup Day to help keep our neighborhood unpolluted. We are finding areas in need of tidying up (see at areas to clean) and people to help us succeed. Volunteers can sign up to help clean their assigned areas anytime from October 13 to October 20.
Instructions for Cleanup
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Wear gloves
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Wear work clothes/long pants/sleeves
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Wear closed toed shoes
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Put long hair up
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Bring your own garbage bags
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Bring a pole or trash grabber for reaching
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Put trash in your own bin or a public trash can
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To find trash: look very carefully at ground for small pieces of trash, look under bushes, walk off trail if possible
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Send a photo of the trash you collect to us at our email or Instagram.
Tips to become a greener person
Problem
Loose trash flying away when trash is picked up. Trash can get washed into the storm drain and straight into the ocean.
Landfill filling up too fast.
Solution
Put your trash in a bag before you put it in your trash bin so that it will not fly away.
You should recycle whenever you can.
Too many plastic bags and baggies.
Unavoidable plastic bags.
Use reusable bags and containers.
Recycle at CVS on Scripps Poway Pkwy. or search here.
Plastic straws.
Plastic and styrofoam takeout containers.
Use a reusable glass straw.
Bring a reusable container to restaurants for leftovers.
