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Article: EARTH DAY CLEANS UP ON LARGE SCALE; 6,000 VOLUNTEERS, 100,000 POUNDS OF LITTER MAY BE NATION'S LARGEST EFFORT.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- April 17, 2005
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Byline: Mark Weiner Staff writer
When the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency organized its first Earth Day cleanup in 1991, several hundred volunteers from 27 groups picked up about 28,000 pounds of litter.
From that beginning on a raw, damp Saturday, the annual cleanup sponsored by OCRRA has grown to include more than 6,000 volunteers from about 250 groups. Last year, they picked up more than 100,000 pounds of litter.
The effort now ranks as one of the largest Earth Day cleanups in the United States, according to the Earth Day Network, a Washington, D.C., group founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970.
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