City-Wide Virtual Clean Up 2020

Family Clean Up Day!

Due to COVID-concerns, the Nashawannuck Pond Committee will not be organizing a City-Wide Clean Up Day event this year. Instead, we decided to get creative using Litterati, an app that empowers individuals to make a significant, measurable impact on the environment by picking up and documenting trash. 

During the month of May we will hold the first-ever virtual Easthampton Virtual Clean up MONTH. Our goal will be to engage individuals and families to clean up neighborhood trash and document findings using the Litterati app. At the end of the month we will gather the data, sharing it with city departments and organizations, to brainstorm ways to mitigate future littering.

Please keep your group to your immediate family. This is not intended to be a time for group student activities.

The coronovirus may have closed our school buildings, but that doesn't mean we can't find interesting ways to engage our students in meaningful ways. Are you running out of creative ways to bring the classroom to your students while school is closed?  Easthampton Virtual City-Wide Clean Up Month can help! 

​Charge up your smart phone, grab some trash bags and gloves, gather your family, and walk your neighborhood in search of litter. Let your student help capture the picture, name it (#sodabottle,  #cigarette, #plasticstraw) and upload it to the Litterati database. Your litter will be geo-tagged and the precise location logged.

Here's how to participate:  ​DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS

1. Download the Litterati app here.
2. Open the app and start walking and look for litter. (Be sure to maintain social distancing rules where they apply. The City has also advised that face coverings be worn outside where social distancing may be difficult to maintain. Again, be mindful that this is a family activity, not intended to be a group student activity.)
3. Snap a picture of an object and label it.
4. Upload it to the database.
5. Pick up the litter and dispose of it safely. Gloves and litter grabbers are advised.  NOTE:  Do not pick up any "sharps" (needles, etc.). Instead, call the Easthampton Police Department non-emergency number (413)527-1212 and let the dispatcher know the location of the sharp. An officer will dispose of it for you.

​That's all there is to it!