Stash The Trash is a community-based organization looking to clean up the city through supporting litter pick-up programs and cleaning up overgrown sidewalks and lots.  In addition, they are working diligently to eradicate illegal dump sites and while they serve the entire city, they plan to focus on Greenfield in 2010 and clean up our 15 illegal dump sites.  (They have already cleaned up 5 over the past 12 months.)

In 2009, PA CleanWays did a survey assessing the city’s illegal dumpsites on public property.  They found 279 dumpsites throughout the City. Twenty of them were in Greenfield, one of the highest amounts for a single neighborhood! You can view the entire report here [PDF].

The Greenfield number is now down to 15, due to the efforts of the group and Joe Divack, a retired citizen who has been working through Stash The Trash to clean up the sites.

Please check out the StashTheTrash web site and consider signing up to help clean up the City and the neighborhood.  We will keep you posted as to their plans and future opportunities to assist in Greenfield clean-ups.