Coordinating Cleanup Day
Coordinating Cleanup Day
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Make a checklist.
If proper planning has been done, the rest should be easy and even fun. Make a cleanup-day checklist in order to remember these important rules and assignments:
- Workers and helpers are dressed properly for their own safety.
- All necessary permission forms are signed.
- Someone is responsible for handing out the trash bags.
- Each team knows its assigned work area.
- People are working together in teams of at least three people.
- Each person has instructions about avoiding dangers like snakes and bees.
- Each person knows to watch out for sharp objects like broken glass.
- Everyone knows break times and quitting time.
- Each person knows what he or she should do if someone gets hurt.
- A responsible adult is prepared for emergencies.
Keep records.
During or at the end of the cleanup, record how many bags of trash have been collected and what kinds of trash are found where. Using the scale you have brought to the site, weigh the collected material. These numbers can later be graphed and analyzed in class. Some established programs ask for this and other information such as the following:
- How large an area was cleaned?
- How many people helped?
- How many pounds of trash were collected?
- How many pounds of recyclables were collected?
If you choose to work with an established program, someone will tell you what kind of records to keep.
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