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GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP GWINNETT CHALLENGE ACTIVITY LIST

Cleanup Litter

Organize a litter clean up in your neighborhood.

Organize a litter clean up at work.

Adopt a road or vacant property and keep it clean.

Become a Green & Healthy School

Recycle

Collect paper, plastic bottles and aluminum cans from work and bring them to the Recycling Bank of Gwinnett.

Collect paper, plastic bottles and aluminum cans from home and bring them to the Recycling Bank of Gwinnett.

Donate gently used clothes and toys to needy organizations or shelters.

Donate your cell phones to a needy organization.

Recycle your old tires.

Become a Green & Healthy School

Wipeout Graffiti

Organize graffiti paint-out and paint out graffiti in your neighborhood

Create a graffiti-free zone and commit to keeping street signs and sidewalks graffiti-free

Plant Trees

Get to know the trees in your immediate neighborhood and create an inventory

Check out areas around your neighborhood and business and plant trees to increase tree canopy

Create a mini forest in your neighborhood

Organize a neighborhood block party and get neighbors to plant or care for street trees in front of their homes

Create a street tree canopy in your neighborhood

Create a new outdoor living area by planting trees, shrubs and flowers in an area that needs improvement

Become a Green and Healthy School

Recycle paper to save trees

Plant a Community Garden

Create a community vegetable or rain garden for your neighborhood

Select a vacant lot and grow a community flower garden

Create a garden of flowers in a nursing home

Landscape and adopt a median

Plant a Victory garden to honor veterans

Plant a Go Green garden to honor graduates

Become a Green and Healthy School

Create a new outdoor living area by planting trees, shrubs and flowers in an area that needs improvement

Create a rain garden.

Cleanup a Dumpsite

Organize a cleanup of vacant land or illegal dumpsites

Survey an area of the community and identify illegal dumpsites and report to Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful (email: gwinnettcb@gwinnettcb.org)

Cleanup your Neighborhood

Walk your community with neighbors and pick up litter

Cleanup and beautify the entrances to your neighborhood.

Help out elderly neighbors or vacant properties by mowing lawns, spraying weeds, etc.

Adopt a road at the entrance of your subdivision

Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful Services, Inc.

4300 Satellite Blvd. Duluth, GA . 770-822-5187 www.gwinnettcb.org

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