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ALABASTER – In a joint partnership with Osprey Initiative, the city of Alabaster will hold a Community Cleanup Day this weekend on Saturday, March 29. The Community Cleanup Day will take place from 10 a.m. to noon on March 29 at Buck Creek Park located at 701 6th Ave. SW. Alabaster, AL 35007.
“We just wanted a way to kind of celebrate the community (and) give back,” said Mitch Lowe, regional manager for Osprey Initiative. “Alabaster has been a great place to work and we just wanted everyone who said, ‘How can we help?’ to have a chance to come out and do something to beautify the city.” All ages are welcome to join in the cleanup effort. Those who volunteer need to wear sturdy, closed-toe shoes to the cleanup. Gear and water will be provided. “If people could come and be prepared to get their hands a little bit dirty, we’re going to be working along the creek banks on the Buck Creek greenway trail,” Lowe said.
Alabaster Parks and Recreation will gather bags of trash collected during the cleanup and deliver them to Osprey who will then sort the items. “Everyone will be able to see how many cubic feet of liter we got and what the weight was,” Lowe said. “And we’ll also separate plastics from aluminum from trash. We’ll be able to recycle the number one plastics and aluminum. Everything else will got thrown away.” As an Alabaster native, the cleanup efforts hits close to home for Lowe who values having clean water sources.
“This is water that I grew up riding my bike to,” Lowe said. “As a kid, to be able to get out and enjoy that water, have fun, to not have to wade through trash to enjoy the awesome, natural resources has—I can’t even tell you what that’s done for me in my life. It’s kind of shaped who I am a little bit. So, this is really a great chance to get out and make sure that the next generation of kids can do that.” Lowe said that this event is the best way to help out with litter issues—emphasizing that if everyone cleans up around them, that it’s one less piece of trash that ends up in the ocean. “It just takes one person stopping that piece of litter from making its way down the chain to really eliminate a lot of this issue,” Lowe said. “So, this is just a great opportunity to come and have fun and be part of the solution.”
This story originally appeared in the Shelby County Reporter by Noah Wortham. You can view the original story online here.
