Personal concerns
- Bring your partner, friends, parents, children with you for this massive volunteering project.
- If you feel ill or having covid 19 symptoms make sure to cancel your participation.
- Dress appropriately- suitable for working conditions: long trousers, and t-shirts (long sleeves are better).
- Wear firm shoes/boots/sandals that ensure your safety.
- You may not wear jewelry for safety purpose
- Do not bring any valuable items to the event premises if you do so make sure to keep them safe.
- Bring sufficient drinking water with you. (Highly recommend bringing non plastic bottles)
- Do not use alcohol, drugs prior to or during the clean-up.
- You should take the responsibility of your own safety. Please be aware and conscious about things that can cause injuries.
- Do not take unnecessary risks.
- Make sure that you are always with a group or minimum with two members.
- Volunteers under the age of 18 are the responsibility of their parents or guardians
- If you bring any tool from home, please mark your name on it.
- Ensure to wear your masks and wear the given gloves during the cleaning process.
- Be ready for weather conditions as we cannot predict accurately.
- If you feel loss or in an emergency feel free to contact the site owners and the organizing committee.
What and how to Clean
- When removing larger garbage items, make sure that no venomous animals are hiding in/under them.
- Do not pick leaves or branches as per garbage, they are not included as garbage.
- Pour out the water and drinks in old bottles and cans to reduce the weight, and flatten or crumple them, if possible, to reduce the volume.
- Remember to collect plastic bottles and cans to a separate garbage bag for the benefit of recycling purposes.
- Small pieces of garbage like cigarette butts, candy wrappers also need to be removed other than plastic and polythene containers.
- Rubbish that is too large to fit in a garbage bag can be placed next to the filled garbage bags for later disposal.
- Try to fill your garbage bags as much as possible before handing over them (to reduce the useless wastage of garbage bags)
- Lift your garbage bag, rather than dragging it over the ground or through vegetation, as that may cause it to tear and spill the contents.
- Make sure you don’t dump litter such as cigarette butts or empty lunch wrappers yourself.
- Take time to explain to interested passersby what you do and why you do it.
- Full garbage bags should always be tied properly to ensure that garbage is not blown out of them during transport.
