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Litter
Prevention
How Did Riverside Score in 2006?
Litter is defined as
carelessly discarded refuse. Are we becoming more littered each year,
meaning that we are becoming more careless about how we discard our
trash? Each year Keep Riverside Clean and Beautiful conducts its annual
litter index. This litter inspection is a crucial part of keeping track
of Riverside’s overall cleanliness and helps Keep Riverside Clean and
Beautiful (KRCB) set litter removal goals for the upcoming year as well
as outline a road map for future community cleanups. The index will also
be given to the city for their use.
Each year, volunteer judges scoured the entire city and rated 44 major
areas in each of the seven wards of the city for their cleanliness. On a
scale of 1thru 4 with 1 being clean and 4 being very littered,
Riverside’s overall city score was 1.70, meaning that overall Riverside
was fairly clean. In 2007, Riverside scored a 2.14 as the city’s overall
litter score, meaning that we are slightly more littered than last year.
What can we do to fix this!
Adopt
A Street!
Use a car litter bag!
Use pocket ash trays
Organize a Neighborhood Clean Up or Tree Planting!
Call Heather at (951)
683-7100 to get involved today. Then, together we can all Keep Riverside
Clean and Beautiful!
The points were
awarded in the following manner
1 =
no litter
2 =
slightly littered
3 =
littered
4 =
extremely littered
The
graph shows how each Ward scored.
|
Ward Number |
Points Given |
| One |
2.19 Pints |
| Two |
1.88 Points |
| Three |
2.43 |
| Four |
2.53 |
| Five |
1.99 |
| Six |
1.95 |
| Seven |
2.03 |
Riverside's Average
Score
2.14
Storm Drain Pollution
Prevention
Every day affects the
quality of water in our storm drains. The combined effect of an entire
community can seriously affect our rivers, lakes and streams. Preventing
pollution is much easier and less costly than cleaning up "after the
fact."
Here are a few tips:
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Wash cars on a lawn or
unpaved surface
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Repair leaking vehicles
promptly. Use absorbents to catch spills. Sweep up soiled absorbent
materials and place in trash.
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Clean up with a broom,
not a hose.
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Dispose of dirty
cleaning solution down a sink or toilet.
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Dispose of your chemical
wastes safely. Call 1-800-506-2555 to locate a Household
Hazardous Waste Disposal location.
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Apply pesticides or
herbicides sparingly.
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Don’t blow or rake yard
waste into the street or gutter.
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Prevent dirt and debris
from washing into the storm drains.
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Pick up pet waste and
dispose of it in the trash.
For more information
call 1-800-506-2555 or visit
www.floodcontrol.co.riverside.ca.us.
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