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Pack Your Trash™ is a Non-Profit Anti-Litter Campaign
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Pack
Your Trash™ was established as a non-profit 501c-3 corporation
(CP77-0559665) in February of 2001 and has been in existence
since the early 1960's. It is the only 'pure' anti-litter
campaign which not only coordinates beach, park and local
community clean-ups with other environmental concerns, but
organizes assemblies at county grade and elementary schools,
high schools, and community colleges, in order to speak about
and endorse the importance of keeping 'your' community clean
and taking responsibility for 'your' actions. What is unique
and most relevant to PYT, versus other environmental causes,
is the true connection and direct involvement with our youth
through the lectures at the schools and the PYT hands-on approach
and outreach to the community for beach and street clean-ups.
The Pack Your Trash™ misson is to educate, encourage
and impact our youth to take responsibility and promote a
strong sense of pride in their community. Our goal is to extend
our reach and presence thoughout Santa Cruz County and then
assist other communities thoughout the state of California
to replicate and enforce the PYT movement. Our ultimate vision
is to establish PYT as 'the' national anti-litter campaign
and have an annual Pack Your Trash™ Day across the country.
Pack
Your Trash™ invites recognized local personalities such
as pro-surfers, skaters and every day members of the community
who relate well to our youth, to participate in these assemblies.
In several of the presentations PYT has incorporated experienced
individuals from various organizations in the field of recycling
to better educate the children on the 'Why' and 'How' behind
recycling. An example of one of the PYT presentations, which was conducted with
the support of Waste Management™, was when WM brought
a recycled robot to play a significant role in the PYT lecture
to student body of more than 700 at Scotts Valley Middle School.
The robot spoke to the children in a manner in which they
could relate to and then opened it up for a question and answer
period, which was not only informative, but also very entertaining
to both the children and faculty.
A
little Pack Your Trash™ History
Pack
Your Trash™ was originally formed by a group called The
Pleasure Point Night Fighters, a.k.a. PPNF, a public service
group established in the 1920's by volunteer's and were renowned
as a vigilante organization that kept the peace in what was
then an unincorporated area known as "Pleasure Point" a district of Santa Cruz, California.
The
Night Fighters were actually volunteer fire fighters who put
out numerous fires and helped the victims of the rowdy crowds
that would gather to celebrate during the prohibition years
of 1919 to 1933. The Depression and World War II brought PPNF
activities to a halt in the middle of the 1950's when area
locals revived the legend and PPNF was the "unwritten
code of the West". It was the middle 1970's when the
PPNF renaissance emerged laying a foundation for the tight
knit organizational structure that exists today, with a myriad
of community spirited programs to offer.
It
was this organization, PPNF, who were disheartened with the
trash on the beaches and lack of trash cans around the area
to help reduce the problem. They united and were
successfull in the donation of 12 trash cans. They
took on the responsibility of keeping their local area clean
by way of even physically emptying the trash cans weekly.
They then began the now well-known "Pack
Your Trash Day". This began an event where
local residents gathered to clean local beaches in the fall,
spring, memorial day, Labor Day, weekends and other holidays.
With this effort, many other communities thoughout
California and abroad followed our path to clean up their
neighborhoods too.
...interested
in becoming a Pack Your Trash™ chapter director?
...email us at info@packyourtrash.com for more info!
The
Pack
Your Trash™ Directors
Hallie Richmond - President/Director hallie@packyourtrash.com
Molly Ober - Director molly@packyourtrash.com
(831) 464-7763
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