The 2012 Great Truckee Meadows Community Cleanup is Saturday May 12th from 8:30am- 12 noon. Sign up to volunteer here!
[SinglePic not found] Partners and Sponsors for the Great Truckee Meadows Community Cleanup include: The Truckee River Fund, NV Energy, Sun Valley General Improvement District, Castaway Trash Hauling, SaveMart Supermarkets, Hobey’s Casino & Restaurant, Nature’s Bakery, KTVN Channel 2 News, Washoe County, City of Sparks, City of Reno, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, Washoe County Health Department, Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, The Nature Conservancy, Truckee Meadows Weed Coordinating Group, University Nevada Cooperative Extension, The Reno-Sparks Chamber, New Belgium Brewery, American Auto Wreckers, RT Donovan, Bridgestone-Firestone, Simms Metal Management, PSC Environmental and ERGS Properties.
Great Truckee Meadows Community Cleanup
About Open Space Cleanups:
KTMB began the Open Space Cleanups in 2001. The Open Space portion of Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful’s list of programs involves organizing and mobilizing groups of volunteers to help out with preserving and maintaining open space areas within the Truckee Meadows which are publicly owned.
In 2006, Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful working with Washoe County Regional Parks and Open Space, Washoe County Environmental Health, City of Sparks, Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, and the City of Reno established the Great Truckee Meadows Community Cleanup. Focusing on “hot spot” areas in and around the Truckee Meadows. Over 500 volunteers removed 77 tons of trash in only three hours of volunteers work at this first cleanup. Since the cleanup first started in 2006 volunteers have cleaned-up a total of 330 tons of trash from our open spaces and other “hot spot” areas.
As a result of this collaboration, KTMB as well as municipal land owners recognize that cleaning up after illegal dumpers is not the best way to prevent illegal dumping. Thus the Illegal Dumping Task Force was created to address the best ways to educate the Truckee Meadows community of the ramifications of illegal dumping in our open spaces. For more information about how you can help with the Illegal Dumping Task Force contact christi@ktmb.org.
