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Have you participated in a Living Lands & Waters' river cleanup?
Please take 5 minutes to fill out this survey and let us know your thoughts on the experience!
Living Lands & Waters hosts community river cleanups each year with the assistance of the muscle power of local volunteers of all ages. Most community cleanups last for about four hours, typically beginning around 9 am and lasting till 1 pm. The day begins with a brief discussion on safety rules and potential hazards during the cleanup. From there, volunteers load up into LL&W work boats, piloted by the LL&W crew, and head out to the pre-designated garbage sites along the shorelines and islands of the river. Once there, the search for garbage is on.
With trash bags and shovels in hand, volunteers scour the area in search of plastic bottles, barrels, tires, appliances, and whatever else is present that does not belong there. They then carry this refuse to a central point along the shoreline. After the site has been cleaned and the volunteers have gotten dirty, everyone loads back up into the boats and head back to the meeting site to enjoy snacks and beverages. Whew! Volunteers can call it a day!
Following the volunteers departure, the LL&W crew then heads back to the cleanup site to load up the boats with the accumulated garbage. Once the boats are full, they head to the barge for unloading. The garbage is then sorted for those items that can be recycled and placed on the appropriate barge with the help of the skid steer. It’s at this
point, where the community cleanup is officially over for LL&W and plans for the next community cleanup begin.
Interested in Volunteering...
At the Xstream Cleanup in Louisville, Kentucky?
At the Xstream Cleanup in the Quad Cities?
On The Ohio River?
On the Mississippi River?
On the Illinois River?
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