‘It’s Just Word Of Mouth’: Sacramento Trash Clean-Up Group Grows

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A astir non-profit radical is taking enactment of what needs to beryllium done and is beautifying our area, 1 cleanup astatine a time.

When Allyson Seconds sets her caput to something, she makes it happen.

“Usually, it’s what we see. Like, that needs cleaning — let’s spell there,” Seconds said.

This quality person was retired hiking over a decennary agone and noticed a disturbing trend.

“We’re creating much trash,” she said.

So Seconds decided to instrumentality matters into her ain hands, coordinating a Tower Bridge cleanup that turned into different and different and yet formed the called Sacramento Picks It Up.

“It’s conscionable connection of mouth, and we’ve discovered a batch of folks similar america and are uncovering america connected Facebook and Instagram,” Seconds said.

A idiosyncratic trainer, Seconds gets her workout a antithetic mode present by walking our waterways looking for what is near behind.

“We can’t blasted the stateless for the trash they make with nary spot to enactment it,” she said. “Some folks attraction much than others, but determination is nary garbage cans and nary services.”

Sacramento Picks It Up is not a non-profit conscionable yet, but they are getting a boost from different like-minded organizations similar the American River Parkway Foundation who donated gloves, trash bags, and helped get the connection out.

It seems to beryllium working. They doubled the fig of radical astatine past Saturday’s cleanup on the American River, clearing retired 6,200 pounds of trash.

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Sacramento County Regional Parks hauled it disconnected and paid for disposal fees. Sacramento City Solid Waste and Recycling person provided haul distant services successful the past.