Richmond Spring Clean-Up Nets 35 Tons Of Trash

RICHMOND, TX — A mass community effort in Richmond during it's semi-annual community clean-up campaign led to the collection of nearly 40 tons of waste for the month of April.

The City of Richmond and Republic Services partnered once again to bring community together for the semi-annual clean-up campaign during 3 weekends in April.

The Clean-up Campaign occurs spring and fall to assist residents in eliminating large item waste.

Residents were prepared again this year to take advantage of this opportunity as 25.96 tons of large item household waste was collected.

The Spring Clean Up Campaign was segmented across three Saturdays of April, with different areas defined for each of these ‘one day collection’ days.

The first Saturday, April 14th collected the most with 10.4 tons of alternate waste, followed by April 28th with 8.58 tons and April 21st with 6.98 tons of alternate waste.

This year’s Spring Clean Up campaign had slightly less large item household waste collected overall, but KRB’s Annual Shred event on April 14th added 9.68 tons of shredded documents- more than previous Shred events, and 8860 more lbs. than the Fall Shred event.

Keep Richmond Beautiful has been adding to the City’s Clean Up Campaigns for the last few years with a document shred event to properly dispose of documents as well.

With 19,360 pounds of shredded documents added to the large waste pick-ups, the total tonnage removed from Richmond residents totals 35.64 tons of waste, slightly less than the tonnage in Spring 2017.

The next community-wide clean up event will happen this fall.

Image: City of Richmond.

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