Litter-Free Links

Holding A Litter Clean Up

• Safety Guideline from Keep Blackstone Valley Beautiful
• Borrow a Litter Clean Up Kit at Local Library 

Recycling & Litter Resources

• Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation - http://www.rirrc.org/
• How Do I Dispose?  RIRRC A- Z Guide - http://atoz.rirrc.org/
• Keep Blackstone Valley Beautiful - http://www.keepblackstonevalleybeautiful.com/site/
• Keep America Beautiful Cost of Litter in the US  - https://kab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LitterinAmerica_FactSheet_CostsofLittering.pdf          
• Keep America Beautiful 2020 National Litter Study - https://kab.org/litter-study/
• Secure Your Load - https://www.secureyourload.com/
• Global Littering Statistics - https://sites.google.com/site/globallittering/statistics
• Rhode Island 401 Clean Team - https://litterfree.ri.gov/about-us/401-clean-team
• Plogging - https://waste4change.com/blog/plogging-the-new-swedish-trend-of-running-while-picking-up-trash/
• Pliking - https://bikenewportri.org/plike-newport-event/

Environmental Organizations

• Rhode Island Environmental Education Association -  http://rieea.org/
• Project Green Schools - https://projectgreenschools.org/
• Product Stewardship Institute - https://www.productstewardship.us/
• Alliance to End Plastic Waste - https://endplasticwaste.org/
• Plastic Free July - https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/
• Earth Day - https://www.earthday.org/
• Keep American Beautiful - https://kab.org/
• Environmental Protection Agency Trash Free Waters - https://www.epa.gov/trash-free-waters/what-you-can-do-about-trash-pollution
• Ocean Conservancy Report - 2022 Clean Up Report 

Student Recommended Resources

• How Data Science Can Help Fight Climate Change - https://datascienceprograms.com/learn/how-data-science-can-help-fight-climate-change