How To Keep Our Neighbourhood Clean

: Category: Outdoors Outdoors

Making a cleaner and nicer world starts locally. Once you are able to keep your own home neat and tidy, you can take the extra effort to work on beautifying your town with friends and neighbors.

An organized clean-up effort and some good follow-up work can make a nicer world for everyone to live in. Help clean up your home and neighborhood, and keep it that way.

1. Keeping your home clean:

- Mow your lawn: Longer grass doesn't look good on a lawn, so help out the neighborhood by keeping yours neat and trim. Use a lawnmower regularly to keep your grass from getting too long, and trim the sides with an edger.

- Maintain your sidewalks: In most towns, property owners are responsible for keeping the sidewalks clean and clear. Make sure you clean up any debris so people can walk easily in front of your home.

- Keep your storm drains clear: The point of storm drains is to gather run-off from rainwater to prevent flooding and keep that water in local waterways. Make sure trash and other debris doesn't get caught in the drain.

2. Help out around your neighborhood:

- Pick up litter: Litter, trash that people drop all around the ground, is an eyesore. Worse, it can be harmful to children, animals, and the rest of the environment. If you see some trash on the ground around your neighborhood, don't assume someone else will take care of it. Be proactive in taking care of where you live

- Pick up after your pets: If you have pets that go for walks, especially dogs, make sure you pick up their poop. Nobody wants to see it, smell it, or even accidentally step in it. Follow your pets with a plastic bag to clean up after them, and make sure you throw the bag away in a trash bin.

- Adopt-A-Spot: Roadways and other areas like them can sometimes get left behind in clean-up efforts. Help make sure that trash and other debris is picked up from along the side of the road. Your business, social group, or other organization will agree to clean up a stretch of road in exchange for having your name put on a sign identifying you as the ones who did the clean-up.

- Report graffiti: Graffiti, painting on walls and other public places, is illegal in many locations, and an eyesore. If you notice this kind of artwork on a public building or structure, report it to 972-218-1300.

- Publicize what you are doing: People won't know they can help if you don't tell them about the effort. Post flyers around your neighborhood, and post messages on social media to your network of friends, and see who wants to come and help. The more the merrier.