For many, it's routine to pick up a bucket and walk a city block or two to make sure things are looking clean and free of litter. This Summer, there's a new opportunity that will help to support those that already clean the sidewalks and to incentivize those that are thinking about it.
The new Adopt-a-Block program through Keep Duluth Clean aims to provide residents and organizations with supplies and services to make sidewalk clean-up easier and safer. "When you sign up you get clean up materials," says Emma Springer, the Unhoused Response Coordinator with Life Safety for the City of Duluth. "You can choose between litter grabbers, shovel, rake, bucket... we automatically provide a medical sharps disposal container."
In addition to the essentials for clean-up, the program also provides pick-up. Not everyone has extra space in their own garbage bin for what might be collected on the street.
There are currently 20 blocks being cared for through the program, and there's plenty of room for others to sign up and commit to cleaning a block in town. "It's been very cool to see the way people have come together and want to participate," says Springer. "Even just in ways of getting the word out and sharing it."
More information about the Adopt-a-Block program, as well as instructions on how to sign up, can be found on the Keep Duluth Clean website.
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