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Let’s Talk Trash! MAY / JUNE 2020
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Steinbach has come out tops in North America in an annual litter audit commissioned by the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association. Executive Director Ken Friesen says the rate of littering for empty beverage containers in Steinbach has dropped 69 per cent since they started doing the audit in the city in 2013. Every year, they hire third party litter audit firms to come and measure the litter in six different cities in Manitoba and Steinbach has again way outshone every other place, not only in Manitoba, but in North America, which is remarkable. The litter audit people say this is by far, not only terms of beverage containers, but in terms of other litter, the cleanest city that they’ve audited in North America. Audit firms use a GIS mapping system to randomly select sites in each of the cities. They then lay out a rectangle, which is four metres by two metres, and pick up every piece of litter, cigarette butts and anything that’s litter in that area. In a place like Steinbach, they might do 100 of these sites to get a good sampling from across the community using a very scientific approach. What sets Steinbach apart in being such a clean city? they have a really good Public Works department that keeps bins serviced so bins are not overflowing and people tend to use them more and not litter. Their recycling bins play a huge role, however there has to be something more to have that kind of a remarkable difference, i.e.: responsibility and a sense of people caring for their own community. They also host annual pick-up and walk clean-up campaign in the spring. Involving youth to go up and pick up litter for a couple or hours, they’re more conscious of how they behave themselves which has a tremendous impact. Source: https://steinbachonline.com/local/steinbach-the-most-litter-free-city-in-north-america The Most Litter-Free City In North America is.... Steinbach (Canada) WHY?
aaron@usstn.com Project Manager AARON WOLFE
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