Waste

Parks can design a beautiful greenstreet and stewards can help keep plants healthy, but no one can fully appreciate a site if it is littered with plastic bags, bottles, and cigarette butts. Keeping a site free of litter not only ensures its place as a community asset, it reduces the amount of stress placed on the plants.

Guidelines

• Wearing gloves, remove trash from greenstreets and street tree pits.
• Bag and dispose of the garbage properly, in city trash cans or in your own trash.
• Try to recycle what materials can be recycled.
• Do not handle any materials you are not comfortable with picking up and stay away from any obviously hazardous material: needles, toxic chemicals, dead animals, etc.
• Wearing gloves, remove trash from greenstreets and street tree pits.
• Bag and dispose of the garbage properly, in city trash cans or in your own trash.
• Try to recycle what materials can be recycled.
• Do not handle any materials you are not comfortable with picking up and stay away from any obviously hazardous material: needles, toxic chemicals, dead animals, etc.
• Call 311 if you find any hazardous materials or if there is debris that is too large for you to remove.
• Do not store trash bags on greenstreets or in tree pits. They crush groundcover and may leak into the soil.

Tools (provided)

• gloves
• trash bags
• garbage grabber