(DAVENPORT, Iowa) —Operation Medicine Cabinet, a three-day event allowing residents the opportunity to safely dispose of medications, sharps, mercury thermometers and sensitive documents, generated 10,847 pounds of material.
This included approximately 1,029 pounds of pharmaceuticals, 537 pounds of sharps, 14 pounds of mercury thermometers and 9,211 pounds of documents for shredding.
Gander Mountain Adoptions
(DAVENPORT, IA) — Ten “Make it Yours” locations are now featured on an interactive map accessible through the iLivehere Online web site. “Make it Yours” is the adoption program managed by the Waste Commission of Scott County (IA) and is part of the commission’s ongoing social responsibility program, iLivehere.
For more information on how to register and “make” a location yours, visit the iLivehere web site.
(QUAD CITIES, IA/IL) — Volunteers at the fifth annual Xstream Cleanup on Saturday, August 16 removed 142,566 pounds of debris from area waterways, illegal dumping sites and flood-ridden areas. Cleanups were held at 39 locations in Bettendorf, Davenport and LeClaire, Iowa; Colona, East Moline, Milan, Moline, Rock Island and Silvis, Illinois.
Thirteen hundred and twenty seven (1,327) volunteers worked a total of 4,176.75 hours and collectively gathered 2,187 bags of trash, 2,416 tires, 36 appliances and 54 bicycles. This was the equivalent of 75,180 pounds of trash, 63,444 pounds of tires, 2,700 pounds of appliances and 1,242 pounds of bicycles for a grand total of 142,566 pounds.
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(Riverdale, IA) — When Chris Bawden needed to supervise a “family service project” for a Boy Scout merit badge, he decided to make the nearby ravine into an official “iLivehere” cleanup site. Last Saturday, Chris and his family filled over a half-dozen bags with garbage they extracted from the overgrown hillsides and streambed.
“It was easy,” explained the seventeen year-old Junior. “All I had to do was visit iLivehereqc.org and register online. They had everything I needed and my dad picked it all up on Wednesday. We all worked for a couple of hours on Saturday and got the job done.”
Volunteer diver, Ron Hoffman, surfaces in the midst of the muck and debris found at the Crow Creek Park quarry.
(Bettendorf, IA) — Volunteer divers from around Bettendorf came to the Crow Creek Park Quarry last Saturday morning (July 26) to help clean the water-filled pit of garbage and overgrown vegetation. A second group of land-based helpers picked up litter on the shoreline and from nearby trails.
The event was organized by Scott Jones, who operates Scuba Adventures QCA (www.scubaadventuresqca.com) with help from one of his instructors, Darin Oberhart, who served as the dive master.
