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The Great American Cleanup of PA Underway

LYCOMING COUNTY — The state is getting ready for its annual spring cleaning project and after the winter we’ve had you know it will be a big job. Co...
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LYCOMING COUNTY --- The state is getting ready for its annual spring cleaning project and after the winter we've had you know it will be a big job. Communities in Lycoming County are getting ready for the onslaught of trash.

A plastic bottle peeks out of the snow. A cardboard box is left along the road  near Montgomery.

"People throw trash outside their car all the time," said Ken Miller.

Ken Miller lives by Route 54 in Lycoming County where cars buzz by.

"They're snow covered but the snow melts you will see trash,” said Miller.

The "Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful" group also expects to see more trash on the sides of the roads once the snow melts.

"Parts of motorcycles, to swimming pool liners, big huge pieces of plastic pulled out of there. We found part of a couch," said Becky Sanguedolce.

Once a year, Becky Sanguedolce helps clean up her community. She's already signed up for the Great American Cleanup of PA that's now underway.

Over the next three months Sanguedolce along with thousands of other volunteers across the state will help clear trash from roads, trails, even shorelines.

"Every year we do a couple of events for the Black Hole Creek we do the creek clean up and that's in the spring time," said Sanguedolce.

Folks who live near the creek say drivers may not notice the trash but for them this stuff is right outside their window.

"During the nice weather and all it's a mess," said Randy Taby from Montgomery.

"I do help clean up. It's our neighborhood if we don't clean it up who's going to?" said Miller.

To help make that clean up easier, several landfills across the state will provide reduced or free landfill space for groups involved in the cleanup, including Lycoming County Resource Management Services near Montgomery.

"They can bring in waste that they have collected from their community parks, streams," said Beth Stugart from the Lycoming County Landfill.

People can still register to volunteer in the Great American Cleanup of PA.

 

 

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