SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Lackawanna County is celebrating Earth Day by taking action in the heart of the community.<\/p>\n
The county\u2019s Office of Environmental Sustainability hosted a cleanup around Courthouse Square, aiming to both beautify the area and raise awareness about the department\u2019s work.<\/p>\n
Officials say many people, including some county employees, don\u2019t realize the office exists.<\/p>\n
Markieann Muncie, an education specialist with the office, says outreach is a major part of their mission, from community education to hosting recycling events throughout the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always say to everyone, because sometimes people feel like they don\u2019t make an impact,\u201d Muncie said. \u201cBut I say individual action is still action. You\u2019re still doing something. And I say we should make Earth Day every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
More than a dozen county employees stopped by during their breaks to help with the cleanup.<\/p>\n
The efforts will continue this weekend. The Office of Environmental Sustainability is hosting an Earth Day event on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at McDade Park, featuring a variety of environmental organizations, resources, and services for the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Lackawanna County is celebrating Earth Day by taking action in the heart of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-173326","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\/173326","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=173326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}