PHOTOS: 300 Wyckoff Residents Team Up to Tidy Up

The following was submitted to Patch by the township of Wyckoff. 

Clear skies prevailed for all who participated in the Township’s Annual Clean Up Day - Team Up To Tidy Up Wyckoff on Saturday, April 5. The event, which was first held in 1989 and which has been conducted every year since, was a great success with over 300 volunteers participating.

Thanks to our community volunteers who worked diligently collecting litter from 28 quasi-public sites throughout Wyckoff and in a few hours, collected approximately 44 bags of trash and 42 bags of single stream recyclable materials.

We would like to remind everyone that keeping our community clean and free or litter should not be limited to one day but a strategy for everyday. Some anti-litter strategies to remember are: 

• Bring reusable bags to the grocery store or supermarket rather than taking plastic or paper bags.
• Don’t throw litter on the ground.  If you see litter pick it up. 
  Cigarette butts are litter.  Dispose of them properly.
• Use trash and recycling receptacles where available.  If no receptacles are available put discards in a bag to bring home to dispose of them.
• Adopt an area and keep it litter-free all year long.
• Use reusable drink containers instead of disposables.
• Wyckoff Recycles Weekly!

These strategies will help increase the Township’s Nifty-Fifty program and reduce the Township’s refuse collection costs.  

The Township’s Nifty-Fifty goal is to increase our residential recycling rate to 50%; each month the Recyclometer on www.wyckoff-nj.com is updated with the recycling rate from the previous month. The February 2014 resident’s recycling rate is 37.19%. 

The Township of Wyckoff is encouraging residents to reduce the amount of trash that needs to be transported to landfills by decreasing the trash each family places at the curb by increasing their recycling.

The Township Committee and the Environmental Commission appreciates all Team Up volunteers for their time and effort in making Team Up To Tidy Up Day a great success! Remember that keeping the Township litter-free also keeps our waterways and water supply cleaner as well as providing a cleaner habitat for all.