Keep Rockland Beautiful

It’s everyone’s responsibility to take care of our environment and that includes cleaning up trash to protect our waterways and wildlife.
– Tammy

We live in this beautiful area and keeping it clean is essential for everyone’s well being.
– Pietro

Our Girl Scouts troop is learning about helping others and our last badge was titled Rosie/Make the World a Better Place. This cleanup allowed the girls to take part in an activity that practices these concepts.
-Sandra

I think the cleanups help to unify our communities and clean together to help save and preserve our environment, plants, wildlife, and the overall planet we live on, Earth. It helps reduce the waste that goes into our environment.
-Judy

We clean up because there’s so much trash, it’s heartbreaking. Most people are not aware of the degree of debris everywhere. To pull plastic Christmas trees, tires, car batteries, electronic devices etc. out of a creek that goes into the reservoir for our water supply, if more people saw what’s going on we’d have a lot more volunteers. The breakdown of Microplastics is threatening every Ecosystem on the planet.
-Janet

[Cleanups are] an important step to get people invested in their local environment, which will hopefully lead them to caring for the whole Earth’s environment. Think Globally, Act Locally!
-Carol

[Cleaning up is important] to raise awareness that trash is ugly and harms the environment and to remind other students/community members that each person has a responsibility to do their part in keeping it clean and free of litter/ trash.
-Marc

Think globally and act locally. Streams lead to oceans, and oceans are full of plastic debris.
-Natalie