Over 500 volunteers removed over 81 tons of illegally dumped trash and invasive weeds from local outdoor recreation areas during the 6th Annual Great Truckee Meadows Community Cleanup on Saturday, May 7 2011. Thank you to all our sponsors, partners and of course our wonderful volunteers!
Partners and Sponsors for the Great Truckee Meadows Community Cleanup include: The Truckee River Fund, Sun Valley General Improvement District, REI, Hobey’s Casino & Restaurant, Bridgestone-Firestone, Tires Plus, Simms Metal Management, Simms Recycling Solutions, PSC, Green Genius, Fresh Energy Bakery, Save-Mart Supermarkets, Wilks Radio, Washoe County, City of Sparks, City of Reno, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Waste Management, Nevada Land Conservancy, Truckee Meadows Weed Coordinating Group, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern Nevada, Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce, Sparks Chamber of Commerce, New Belgium Brewery, American Auto Wreckers, Sierra Restroom Solutions, RT Donovan and Starbucks.
Thank you to everyone who volunteered at the 2010 Great Truckee Meadows Community Cleanup!
About Open Space Cleanups:
KTMB started doing 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@beautiful.reno.nv.us. To report illegal dumping call the Illegal Dumping Hotline at 329-DUMP.
