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Action Projects to Improve the Environment

Beautification Projects

When you undertake a practical beautification project you will raise your group's profile, improve its public image, secure publicity for events, attract new members and enjoy yourselves.

Find out what needs doing in your community. Tackle it and beautify the environment!

Here are some suggestions:

• Organize a river, canal, park, trail or highway clean up.
  
  • To register your project with PITCH-IN CANADA click here.
  • For information about ordering special PITCH-IN garbage bags click here
     
• "Adopt a Lake". Encourage community groups and schools to clean up the garbage and beautify the areas around the lake
  
• "Adopt" a local building that needs improvement with the permission of the owner (community hall or ?). Put up signs providing details of the work to be undertaken and inviting public participation.
  
• "Adopt a Block or Street". Get residents in your community to work together to look after public and private lands on "their" block. Work with your local government and select the cleanest/most improved blocks annually!
  
• Initiate a village/town centre/town square improvement project to clear up accumulated litter, repair, paint, refurbish and upgrade a specific local area. Get permission where required. Photograph the site before and after.
  
• "Adopt" a vacant lot or neglected piece of land and turn it into a nature park or play area, with the owner's permission
  
• Identify an improvement project: Repair broken steps; Plant a flower bed and maintain it; Clear accumulated litter; Remove graffiti; Fix a rock wall; Paint a fence; Clean a monument; Clean a cemetery; Install or refurbish litter containers.
  
  • For information about PITCH-IN decals for litter containers click here.
     
• Plant trees where needed. Local businesses or individuals could sponsor a tree. You can get your "fund" started at any time and plant when the time is "just right"! One tree can absorb as much as 21kg. of carbon dioxide per year.
  
• Assist local youths with their projects. Perhaps they need sponsorship, recognition, donation of tools and materials or advice in planning a project.

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