The 10th annual Main Street Clean Sweep is scheduled for the week of Earth Day, which is April 22nd. The volunteer-driven trash pickup is a project of Bluegrass Greensource, which conducts environmental programs in 20 central Kentucky counties. Jenny Dugan is their marketing and communications coordinator.
“We've scheduled 19 cleanups in 11 different counties, and then all we need is volunteers to show up and help out their community to beautify the bluegrass and create a little more sustainable central Kentucky.”
Dugan said last year, nearly 8-hundred volunteers picked up almost 19-hundred bags of trash – totals they’re looking to top this year.
“The concept of taking care of our environment, climate change, environmental sustainability, and that sort of thing can seem like a really large, daunting expectation. But the fact is, when individuals come together and do those little things that they can, a few things make a big difference.”
Dugan said volunteers will be given trash bags, plastic gloves and litter-pickers.
Main Street Clean Sweep schedule:
- Saturday, 4/15 | Lincoln County / Stanford
- Monday, 4/17 | Fayette County / Lexington (Veterans Park)
- Wednesday, 4/19 | Garrard County / Lancaster
- Wednesday, 4/19 | Scott County / Georgetown
- Wednesday, 4/19 | Fayette County / Lexington (Lexington Habitat for Humanity)
- Thursday, 4/20 | Franklin County / Frankfort
- Thursday, 4/20 | Clark County / Winchester
- Thursday, 4/20 | Anderson County / Lawrenceburg
- Friday, 4/21 | Fayette County / Lexington (WUKY – Big Ass Fans)
- Friday, 4/21 | Madison County / Richmond
- Friday,4/21 | Mercer County / Harrodsburg
- Saturday, 4/22 | Montgomery County / Mt. Sterling
- Saturday, 4/22 | Fayette County / Lexington (Cardinal Valley – Valley Park)
- Saturday, 4/22 | Woodford County / Midway
- Saturday, 4/22 | Woodford County / Versailles
- Saturday, 4/22 | Montgomery County / Camargo
- Saturday, 4/22 | Fayette County / Lexington (Jacobson Park)
- Saturday, 4/22 | Fayette County / Lexington (Wise Bird Cider)
- Saturday, 4/22 | Harrison County / Cynthiana
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