Clean-Up-Palooza Beautification Extravaganza
Saturday April 22, 9:00 am – Noon
Creek Clean-up
- 9:00 am: Meet at the Ellerbe Creek Greenway trail entrance on the 800 block of Green St.
- Bring work gloves if you have them.
- We’lll pick up trash along the Greenway trail, remove invasive plants (multiflora rose, privet, stiltgrass and English Ivy), and weed the pollinator garden.
Street Clean-up
- 9:00-11:00 am: Come to the corner of Watts St. and Dacian Ave. to be assigned a territory for picking up litter along sidewalks
- Bring work gloves if you have them
Hazardous Waste Collection, E-cycling, and Textile Collection:
- 9:00-11:00 am: Collection station open at the corner of Watts St. and Dacian Ave.
- 11:00 am: Triangle ecycling will examine the electronics that have been collected to see if anything can be used in its work of training high school students in electronic repair.
- 12 noon: All remaining materials will be hauled to Durham’s Solid Waste collection site
Thanks to TPNA’s Earth Day Partners:
- Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association
- Key Club of Durham School for the Arts
- Duke Durham Neighborhood Partnership
- Trinity Park Foundation
- Keep Durham Beautiful
- The Recollective
- Triangle ecycling
Can’t attend on Earth Day but still want to help?
Contact Julia Borbely-Brown (juliaborbelybrown@yahoo.com) for a litter pick-up assignment to do on your own time or to donate volunteer snacks.
