Comments on: A Chance to Help our Beaches and Rivers http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2007/09/06/a-chance-to-help-our-beaches-and-rivers/ We Can Do This Together Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:08:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Angie B. http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2007/09/06/a-chance-to-help-our-beaches-and-rivers/#comment-706 Angie B. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:16:22 +0000 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2007/09/06/a-chance-to-help-our-beaches-and-rivers/#comment-706 I have suggestions: Whether it is for the Highway litter pick up or the beach sweep. We have tried it with our littler pick up team and it works great. For example: you have a stretch of beach or Highway to clean and you have one team. Divide the team in two teams. The first team is the recycling team. They walks the stretch of beach or road first and ALL they pick up are aluminum and steel cans and plastic bottles. They do not pick up anything else. Then the second team the trash team follows them and pick s up whatever is left. To simplify it in case recycling team overlooked an item the trash team will just add it to the trash. In the end you end up with two piles and you collect the recycling bags and take them to the recycling drop off. I once suggested this to the beach sweep coordinator on Sullivan's island and was told it does not work. I beg to differ we have tried it and it works . it is simple enough. We also have contacted Charleston County to see if in the future they might consider handing out orange bags for trash and green bags for recycling. Iam not sure if they will. I have suggestions: Whether it is for the Highway litter pick up or the beach sweep. We have tried it with our littler pick up team and it works great.

For example: you have a stretch of beach or Highway to clean and you have one team. Divide the team in two teams. The first team is the recycling team. They walks the stretch of beach or road first and ALL they pick up are aluminum and steel cans and plastic bottles. They do not pick up anything else. Then the second team the trash team follows them and pick s up whatever is left. To simplify it in case recycling team overlooked an item the trash team will just add it to the trash. In the end you end up with two piles and you collect the recycling bags and take them to the recycling drop off.

I once suggested this to the beach sweep coordinator on Sullivan’s island and was told it does not work. I beg to differ we have tried it and it works . it is simple enough.

We also have contacted Charleston County to see if in the future they might consider handing out orange bags for trash and green bags for recycling. Iam not sure if they will.

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