Rotary's Super Spring Clean-Up Week Declared April 22-28

Mayor Diane Therrien has declared April 22-28 the 2022 Rotary Super Spring Clean-Up Week in Peterborough and area.

Rotarians at Beavermead Park in previous years. Photo courtesy of Peterborough Rotary.

The three rotary clubs in and around Peterborough are inviting residents to start their own cleaning initiative, or join an existing one.

This year marks the 15th time the Peterborough Rotary Club, Rotary Club of Peterborough Kawartha, and the Rotary Club of Bridgenorth-Ennismore-Lakefield have come together to organize large community clean-ups in the spring.

Participants will chose an area, be it a trail, a park, a pond or a section of a river and clean up the trash around it.

“You can see the amount of garbage that has collected over the winter in parks, ravines, roadsides, and ditches,” the Rotary club said in a media release. “Plastic in particular is harmful as it breaks down to micro particles and is now found in lakes, rivers, oceans, and even in our ground water.”

This event takes place all over Canada and the united States.

For more information about the Super Spring Clean Up visit superspringcleanup.ca.

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