Volunteer Safety Tips | Litter Quitters

Wear old clothes (long pants or shorts) that you don’t mind getting dirty or stained. Also consider wearing closed-toe shoes for your protection, such as, old tennis shoes (no sandals or flip-flops!).
- Consider bringing and wearing insect repellant, sunscreen, and gloves for your protection.

Items, such as, trash pickers or gardener potato forks/rakes are very helpful in picking trash up on the side of the road and out of trees along the creek.
- If you are interested in getting in the creek and you own waders, please bring them. A limited number of waders may be available to volunteers, while supplies last.

Pick up only items with which you are comfortable. Ask for help with larger or awkward items. If it won’t budge, just leave it.

Be on the lookout for snakes, wasps, and hornets in debris piles or vegetated areas.

Roadside clean-up participant, 8-15 years of age must be accompanied by adult.
- Volunteer participants will remove litter and trash items along the roadside banks. Volunteers will receive clean-up supplies while they last to remove debris related items. Volunteers will be placed in a group accompanied by Valley Creek Clean-Up Committee Representative to the various site locations.

In the creek participant, 12-15 years of age must be accompanied by adult.
- Volunteer participants will remove litter and trash items along the creek banks. Volunteers will receive clean-up supplies while they last to remove debris related items. Waders will be available to volunteers while supplies last. Volunteers will be placed in a group accompanied by Valley Creek Clean-Up Team Representative to the various site locations along the creek. Trash will be placed in boats and floated down to a pick up site.