The City of High Point and Keep High Point Beautiful are hosting the eighth annual “Winter Wipeout” litter cleanup campaign – an annual event that focuses on cleaning up the litter off of roadways, intersections, parks and streams.
The campaign, which kicked off on Monday, Feb. 3, will run through Sunday, March 2 this year.
During this time, volunteers who want to help keep High Point looking good can pick up their supplies from the city and help clean up whenever it works best given their schedule.
According to High Point’s announcement of the event this week, “The Winter Wipeout campaign is an easy way to help beautify High Point, care for the environment and serve our community. The campaign time frame of four weeks allows volunteers to choose when it is most convenient for them to clean up. During the winter months, the trash hidden by vegetation is revealed. While many trees, vines and flowers lay dormant, volunteers are better able to see and reach what has been hidden for weeks or possibly months.”
Keep High Point Beautiful has put together a list of “litter hotspots” based on information provided by city residents. It can be found at www.highpointnc.gov/khpb.
Once a litter hotspot – which can be a street, a stream, or other spot in the city –is received, it is posted to the online Litter Hotspots Map.
Groups volunteering to help can submit their own litter hotspot to clean – or they can select an area using the Litter Hotspots Map linked within the online registration form.
Keep High Point Beautiful will provide trash and recycling bags, gloves, safety vests and grabbers to the groups and the chosen sites can be cleaned up anytime between Monday, Feb. 3 and Sunday, March 2.
The city notes that volunteers should leave all bags of collected litter on the side of the road and place them together when possible,
Volunteers should also make sure the bags aren’t blocking the sidewalks.
Once the cleanup of a particular area is complete, a group member should use a provided data reporting card to report the number of bags collected, as well as the number of volunteers who participated by completing the.
For more information on the event, you can visit the City of High Point’s website or turn your browser to www.highpointnc.gov/winterwipeout for direct access.
If you still have questions, you can contact Rebecca Coplin at 336-883-3520 or email her at rebecca.coplin@highpointnc.gov.
Only trashy people litter!!
Try driving around Greensboro after A&T homecoming. Then offer your comments
Try driving around the parking area after a NASCAR race down in Charlotte. What is your point?
Charlotte Speedway pays employees of theirs to clean its private parking lots. The streets in Greensboro are public, taxpayers pay the salaries of the employees who do the cleanup. The A&T party goers who throw out their trash don’t respect the city that’s my point.
Trash is trash. But you be you.
If citizens really want to help, they should stop littering. Or are they not taught this in school?
Or at home before they ever go to school, I blame the lazy slack ass parents for not teaching kids better but there again what do you expect from trashy people
To Chris, trash is trash But who pays for the cleanup is the difference. Private vs taxpayers but you be you.