As I rejoice at seeing the snow and ice melt away I grimace and groan with disgust at the newly exposed litter on the streets and in the ditches.  I know that I am not alone!

Saturday April 19th (Earth Day) is our official day for clean-up. To bring some fun to the effort families, neighbours or community groups are encouraged to register here as Sustainable King Stewards for Change.

On April 19th there will be 3 depots where you can pick up supplies for cleaning-up including safety vests, gloves, bags. When you register you are also requested to identify where you will leave your collected garbage so that it can be picked up later. Note: this garbage does not need to be sorted into the different streams such as recycle; experience has shown that often bottles are often so dirty, for example,that it is not productive to sort. Also, it is very cumbersome for the people do the picking up to carry different bags.

The King Environmental Stewardship Team would like you to take action photos of your clean up efforts and submit them to environmentalstewardship@king.ca

For full review of the program to clean up King see here. If you are keen to help but April 19th specifically is not a good day, you can still get involved. I recommend that you connect with either of the two co-ordinators to arrange for pick up of your supplies and to make plans for the garbage pick up. The co-ordinators and their contact information can be found here.