A VT How To Behavior Guide You Need to Know

True Vermonters don't throw down litter,      we pick it up. Positive Disposal Behaviors  Correlating individual behavior with a clean community. With permission: Copyright Community Change, 2003, Cartoonist Kerry Millard.

CHASING

Running after litter which has blown away

Litter picking is a Jericho All-Season Sport.
Drop a piece, you lose a point.
Pick up a piece you gain a point.

DO-IT-YOURSELFING

Bringing your own containers to take items home for reuse, recycling, composting or disposal

CSWD Re Use Zones

INTERVENING

Suggesting others pick up litter they have dropped

Yes Francine, you are right; we need to get the word out that cigarette litter is particularly harmful to our water, wildlife, and human health.

MARSHALLING

Coordinating people to work together to clean up 

Green Up Day, a Jericho family tradition.

THE ASSIST

A pick-up if a ‘foul shot’ misses

One of Jericho's Adopt-A-Block volunteers.

TRAIL BLAZING

Going out of your way to find a bin when there isn’t one nearby

Time to deploy solar compactors on public streets of Jericho,VT.

COACHING

Prompting others to do the right thing

Good people will do good.

 Just make it easy. -Josh Tetrick

VOLUNTEERING

Cleaning up after someone else

People who care about clean neighborhoods must pick up for people who don't care and litter.

COMPACTING

Stuffing items into an over full bin, even if your hands get dirty

Jericho residents go head over heals to keep our town Green and Clean.

Bernie urges us all to maintain a litter free environment through caring, contribution, and community in order to protect our water, wildlife, and human health.