February Community Cleanup
The Silver City Pick It Up – Toss No Más program will be hosting its first community litter cleanup this month, on Saturday, February 21st! For this cleanup, we’ll be focusing on the love we have for Silver City neighborhoods. From Chihuahua Hill to the Little Walnut, Rosedale, and the Historic Downtown area, Silver City has so many personality-filled neighborhoods that you can only find here. As we head in to a new year of community cleanups, we want to encourage everyone in Silver City to show their love for these unique neighborhoods, clean them up, and make them even more beautiful!
Volunteering for just a few hours per month can make a big difference to our town. If you would like to join our community cleanup, grab a friend or your family and meet us at the Gila Community Foundation parking lot at 1106 North Pope Street from 9am to noon. We’ll have trash bags, gloves, trash pickers, and snacks. Once you pick up your supplies, go to your favorite neighborhood or problem area you know about: a hillside where trash blows in the wind, a street with litter in the gutters, or a trail system with a buildup of abandoned wrappers and bottles. Volunteers can return to the parking lot to drop off all litter and debris between 11am and noon.
Thank you to our partners at the New Mexico Department of Transportation for hauling away collected trash to the landfill!
Volunteers should bring a water bottle and wear closed-toe shoes, a sun hat, sunscreen, and layers. Children 17 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Families with younger children are encouraged to clean up litter in their neighborhood, local parks or waterways as children under 12 are not permitted on state highways for the cleanup.
Check out the Pick It Up-Toss No Mas website www.silvercitytossnomas.org to sign up to volunteer and to learn about litter prevention opportunities, the business pledge program, Adopt-A-Roadway or Waterway program, and solid waste disposal and recycling resources.
Volunteers are the foundation of the Pick It Up – Toss No Mas program. Since October 2021, over 1,050 volunteers have picked up over 32,952 pounds of trash, debris, and recyclables from Highways 180 and 90, Silver City neighborhoods, Big Ditch Park, San Vicente Creek, Pinos Altos Creek, and other urban riparian areas.
Thank you to each and every one of our volunteers, organizations, and partners who do all this work! We are incredibly thankful for the amazing monthly turnouts and support in our collective effort to keep Silver City clean and beautiful.
Monthly Pick It Up – Toss No Mas clean-up events are held the third Saturday of every month. Community members can also adopt a roadway or waterway to take care of and clean up throughout the year. On top of that, Pick It Up – Toss No Mas can provide guidance for those who would like to put on their own clean up event, helping to supply the trash pickers, trash bags and gloves for your event.
Pick It Up – Toss No Mas community cleanup events are sponsored by the Town of Silver City, New Mexico Clean and Beautiful, Silver City Watershed Keepers, Silver City MainStreet, SWNMACT, Southwest Solid Waste Authority, Silver City-Grant County Chamber of Commerce, and New Mexico Department of Transportation’s Que Linda Program.
