ARCHBALD, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A collection of environmentally conscious volunteers met up to take out the trash.<\/p>\n
In a collaboration between Queer NEPA, the Sierra Club, and the Valley Community Library, volunteers came for the fourth annual community clean up in Archbald on Sunday to pick up litter and help make the community a more beautiful place. The supplies were provided by Keep NEPA Beautiful and the Lackawanna County Environmental Office and the volunteers went down Main Street picking up and categorizing the litter around the road. The event started years ago and stemmed from a simple desire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI drive this road all the time, and I would see the trash, and I wanted to do something about it,” said event organizer and member of Queer NEPA and the Sierra Club, Fawn Contreras. “So I went to my boss, and I\u2019m like, \u2018hey, I have this idea. I partner with the Sierra Club; can we go outside and pick up litter and make it an educational event?\u2019 So we\u2019re really focusing on environmental literacy and doing good in the community. And yeah, then started looking for organizations to partner with, and it\u2019s been a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Afterwards, the trash is then analyzed and used to make suggestions to the city on ways to keep the roadways clean. If you want to help make your community a cleaner space, there are more cleanups planned throughout the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARCHBALD, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A collection of environmentally conscious volunteers met up to take out the trash.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-164051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}