Roadside, River, and Neighborhood Trash Cleanups

Periodically throughout the year, our chapter will schedule numerous trash cleanup events for our members to do volunteer work.

The chapter participates in a variety of trash cleanup events. For example, through the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Adopt-A-Stream program, our chapter has adopted stretches of roadsides along Kings Fork Road and Providence Roads in Suffolk.

Chapter Ikes Mike Lane and Ray Powell collect tires and other detritus from the Nansemond River

Also, our chapter helps cleanup the Nansemond River in conjunction with the City of Suffolk’s Litter Control/Keep Suffolk Beautiful department to focus on the shoreline and/or using flat bottom john boats and/or kayaks/canoes to pick up trash from the river.  Sometimes we partner with other local conservation groups on these cleanup efforts as well.

Sometimes our members volunteer to help stack tires and collect old batteries at City of Suffolk Tire Amnesty Recycling days.

Members, if you wish participate in any of the upcoming scheduled chapter trash cleanup events, please browse our website calendar or filter through our chapter’s News menu to look for volunteer cleanup events.  Also, you can contact our chapter’s Save-Our-Streams Chair/Clean Water Liaison for more information about River Cleanup events.