Howdy neighbors! Our next community litter cleanup is happening this Saturday, July 18th, from 9am to noon. This July, we're encouraging our Silver City community to increase their independence from plastics. Plastic Free July is an annual reminder to evaluate your household's consumption of plastic products, identify easy choices you can make to reduce future plastic purchases, and re-use plastics before throwing this valuable, non-renewable resource into the trash. Only 8% of plastic containers and packing materials are recycled in New Mexico, making refusing or reusing the best consumer choices when it comes to new plastic or plastic-wrapped products. For plastics that have already been dropped as litter, we need to pick it up and take it to a landfill before it further degrades in our environment. You can help our community this July: say no to a single-use plastic and join our community litter cleanup. #PlasticFreeJuly #BreakingBadHabits #KeepLitterOut #NMCleanAndBeautiful #SilverCityProud