Spring Into Clean And Help Keep Barrie Beautiful
Courtesy: Barrie 360.com
Hundreds of corporate and community participants and thousands of students will spring into action as part of Barrie’s Spring into Clean event.
This year’s event is being held from Friday, April 19 to Monday, April 22, 2024.
In 2023 approximately 17,000 residents participated in Spring into Clean. Participants were able to collect 6.47 tons of garbage. This was substantially more than the 4.8 tons that were collected in 2022 and 4.95 tons collected in 2019. (Spring into clean events were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.)
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Thousands of elementary and high school students will mark Earth Day on April 19 and April 22 by cleaning up their schoolyards and surrounding area.
Community Cleanup Days are Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21. Residents, including community groups, teams, neighbourhood associations, individuals and families, are all welcome to participate.
Corporate Cleanup Days are from April 19 to April 22. On these days, registered businesses tidy up parks, trails, and ravines near their work location.
Other Ways To Help Keep Barrie Clean
Residents can also help keep Barrie clean all year round. Some easy ways to do this include:
- Stack recycling boxes to stop the wind from carrying them away
- Ensure you securely dispose of garbage in the correct containers when visiting public spaces
- Bring waste home with you when you go out for a day trip
- Use your local waste look up tool to make sure items are going in the right bin
- Use reusable cups, straws, cutlery, shopping bags, etc
- Find new ways to repurpose something that will otherwise be disposed of
- Keep trash in a garbage bag in your car to stop it from falling out or blowing away
- Use an ashtray to put out cigarettes
INTERESTING FACT: Cigarette butts surpass plastics as the single most littered item with 2 billion pounds tossed each year.
It doesn’t take much to make a big difference.
Spring into Clean is the perfect way to get involved in keeping Barrie clean, while also raising levels of environmental awareness and social responsibility.
Patricia is the Business Mentor and owner of Grow Vantage and a Past President of the Barrie Chamber of Commerce. She applies over 30 years of business experience (from start-up to corporate) to mentor entrepreneurs. Since 2011, she has held over 6,500 coaching and training sessions in-person and online. Through Ask For Directions Training, her entrepreneurial training program (and parent company Grow Vantage), and as a business coach, she works with start-ups who are new (or who have lost traction) to design, launch and grow their businesses. Along with 20 other expert instructors she teaches strategies in marketing, sales, communications, and finance, as well as practical techniques to increase productivity, and manage their businesses. In other words, everything entrepreneurs need to learn to grow and run their businesses successfully, and avoid the costly mistakes they can't even see coming - that lead to delays in growth and getting stuck.
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