- Contact your local government for the litter prevention program where you live. See the litter program manager contact information below for all of the our member localities.
- Join your local litter prevention group.
- Adopt a Highway or participate in one or more of the local and regional litter clean-up events held each year and learn more about the litter prevention by visiting the Keep Virginia Beautiful (KVB) website or VDOT’s Adopt a Highway website
- Do not throw or pour anything down a storm drain.
- Get involved! Join one of the groups below to help conserve natural resources and keep your community clean.
- Support Don’t Trash Central VA Litter Campaign
- Or, contact these groups to request litter education information, litter cleanup opportunities, litter cleanup supplies, and litter resources specific to where you live. The VA DEQ has a full list of litter program managers, click here for contact in your area.
- Pedestrians or cyclists who do not use waste receptacles.
- Motorists who do not use car ashtrays or litterbags.
- Business dumpsters that are improperly covered.
- Loading docks and commercial or recreational marinas with inadequate waste receptacles.
- Construction and demolition sites without tarps and receptacles to contain debris and waste.
- Trucks with uncovered loads on local roads and highways.
- Household items scattered before or during a trash or recycling collection.
Why People Litter Keep America Beautiful (KAB) has determined that people litter for a variety of reasons. They feel no sense of ownership, even though areas such as parks and beaches are public property. They believe someone else-a park maintenance or highway worker- will pick up after them. People also litter in places where litter has already accumulated. One of KAB goals is to end littering. Who Is Littering? There is no such thing as a single “littering type”. People of all ages and social backgrounds have been observed littering, … men and women, children, mature adults and all ages in between are equally likely to litter. Today’s litterer may be you.Where do people litter? Research has identified locations where litter accumulates. The locations fall into these categories: special event venues, roadways and highways, high traffic and everyday locations and transition points. What Can YOU Do? Virginia Department of Environmental Quality- Litter Prevention Program The Litter Prevention Program coordinates the distribution of annual grants to localities for recycling and litter activities, provides information and guidance on litter prevention and recycling topics, and works with localities, litter prevention program managers, and environmental groups on improving awareness of how litter damages the environment. Program staff track and report on how localities use their grants to support their litter prevention and recycling programs. DEQ staff works with the Litter Control and Recycling Fund Advisory Board on the grant process. For questions about litter prevention topics, contact Prina Chudasama at (804) 698-4159 Litter Prevention Program Managers/Local Contacts and Local Litter Cleanup Programs Charles City CountyCharles City County Clean Community Commission Adopt-a-Highway Program Contact Department of Development (804) 829-9217 or visit the Charles City Clean County Commission webpage Chesterfield CountyChesterfield County Litter Program Pam Cooper, Community Coordinator (804) 751-2227 Colonial HeightsColonial Heights Department of Public Works Chuck Henley, Director of Solid Waste (804) 520-9372 Patsy Dixon (804) 520-9372 Goochland CountyGoochland Anti-litter and Recycling Council (GARC) Dwayne Jones, Convenience Center Manager (804)657-2025 Hanover CountyHanover County Department of Public Works Stephen Chidsey, Chief of Public Works Operations (804) 365-6181 Henrico CountyBecause We Care Litter Control Program,Henrico County’s litter prevention program Megan Brown, Executive Coordinator (804) 501-4502 or khb@co.henrico.va.us City of HopewellNew Kent CountyClean County Committee of New Kent County New Kent Clean County Committee – (804) 966-8580 City of PetersburgKeep Petersburg Beautiful Committee Contact Dept of Public Works – (804) 733-2415 Powhatan CountyCathy Howland, Powhatan Cooperative Extension- (804) 598-5640 Prince George CountyCity of RichmondRichmond Clean City Commission Call Community Programs Coordinator – (804) 646-8325 Locality-specific litter prevention and litter education questions can be directed to area Recycling and Litter Prevention Program Managers. Or, contact Keep Virginia Beautiful.
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