Funny and Trashy Litter Quotes at Heart of Clean City

Clean Quotes (more or less)

Definitions of cleanliness can vary across the world. Some measures of a city's cleanliness include hygiene-based factors: the availability and drink-ability of water, waste removal, and the quality of sewage systems. 

Perhaps the most visible indicator of city cleanliness or lack thereof, is litter.

Picking up litter can be fun and rewarding. I hope these litter quotes set the mood for your role in maintaining your clean neighborhood, your clean city. 

Green Up Day - 

Pick up Trash, Share a Smile.

In Her Words:

“Pick up your CITY.”

“Your Mom”

            Discarded     (on the ground)    butts are      bad-ass.

Caring 

     & 

Contribution Make For             Happy Faces

One way to care for our community

   Adopt-A-Block,

Pick up Litter.
It will lift you up.                             

Give your city

 a lift.

Pick Up Litter.

True Vermonters don’t throw down litter,                   we pick it up.

I felt lousy when I picked up one piece of litter. So I picked up 10.

         

What you pick up off the ground won’t end up in the water. 

      #CleanCity  =  #CleanWater 

True Vermonters don’t throw down litter, we pick it up.

  Vermont - Green and Clean

Winners properly discard unwanted lottery tickets. 

Green Up Day -

Jericho, Vermont A Family Tradition

                          

You have Jericho  VT in Your Hands. Keep Her Green & Clean.

                           

Cleanliness is next to godliness; where is your Town/City?

Sustainable clean city.

Bin it

Win it.

             

Storefronts are like castles. Litter is the moat.

We are not attacking; litter free is barrier free.

WHAT ROLE WILL

YOU PLAY?

Short Video: All One Ocean - Change the World with (fourth grader) Sawyer

I am

Green & Clean Vermont.                                    

Bernie publishes photos reflecting Vermont values of Green and Clean and Community. He urges us all to, pick up litter and maintain a litter free environment through caring, community, and contribution in order to protect our water, wildlife, and human health.

Use social to make litter picking fun, with #Litterati

I sell litter.

Buy two pieces and get 

a 

clean city.

(Trash bin not included.) Pick it up within the next fifteen minutes and I'll even make it litter-free.   

Inspiring

Pick-Me-Up.

Start with litter – it’s lighter.

Clean City: Ours to Lose or Keep

The cold winter month of January

 may seem an ill-shuffled timing choice for this Green and Clean column. However, the timing only helps illustrate that, just as precipitation falls from the skies no matter be it snow or rain, in spring or summer, fall or winter, the responsibility  to keep our city clean, falls on our shoulders year-round.

We work hard to make our beautiful city the pride of the region. We spend countless hours developing zoning regulations scrutinizing even the smallest of details in the design and placement of commercial and residential buildings. We rightfully boast about the finest schools, world-renowned employers and retailers, unique and picturesque small neighborhoods. Our city deserves to be clean at all times of the year.

Perhaps most of us consider littering a gross indulgence, a lazy, offensive, uncaring act: an objectionable violation of our social norm. Perhaps most of us reject apathy, reject the assimilation to even a lightly littered city that we call home.

It is not enough to refrain from littering. To bring the full salutary impact of the social norm, we must show our visible expression of disapproval of the littering action of others.

How can we do that? We might follow the lead of the residents of South Burlington who without fanfare and little, if any, recognition, have adopted a block or park or street to keep clean throughout the year. These folks feel ownership and bear responsibility for the public areas of their neighborhoods. These folks pick up after the few people who demonstrate, through littering behaviors, a missing connection to our community.

For green and clean, we cheer the Adopt-a-Block team; for the love of community, we take pride in our storefronts and public spaces. To demonstrate the pride and protect that which we love, will you bear responsibility for her, our city’s cleanliness?  Rain or snow, summer or winter, will you help tidy up South Burlington, Vermont?

It is simple to participate and make a difference. Here is how you can Adopt-A-Block. There are endless options of what to adopt - from your own street or block to a section of bike path or a nearby wooded area. You can sign up yourself, your family, or your business. Then keep your adopted area clean throughout the year, whether that means daily pick up, a weekly cleanup, or a monthly effort. Signups are for one-year intervals. Visit the Adopt-A-Block tab for cleaning tips as well as ways to share your success, including stories and photos. You will also get to see other community members who are part of the clean-up action.

Will you, proprietor, resident, student, young or aged, awaken in yourself, a greater sense of ownership and responsibility for our place?

Clean city is yours to keep or lose: choose to keep her clean.

Bernie encourages everyone to maintain a litter-free environment through caring, contribution, and community to protect our water, wildlife, and human health. 

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.