Woodridge Spotlight on Litter...Get Involved

Can Town Hall Do Anything About This?

First, thank you to all of our new readers, and to the citizens who have started emailing in their pictures of litter/trash problems in our community.  The two pictures shared in this article were sent in by a concerned citizen who wants to see Woodridge putting its best foot forward.  If everyone does their part, we can greatly reduce or even eliminate litter in the area.  What can you do?

1.  If you know of a litter problem, take a picture or two and send it in to be featured as one of our litter pics of the day.  Send the pictures with a brief description of the location and problem to Tommy Trash Tracker.  

2.  We love stories with HAPPY ENDINGS...are you or a local group cleaning up an area that is in need of a sprucing up.  Send us your group's story and we will be more than happy to publish here in our blog!  Same email address as above.    

Is This What We Want People Seeing In Woodridge?

3.  Demand local enforcement of our litter control laws.  If you see a litter or garbage problem, call up your government officials, code enforcement officers, health department...any of these that has the ability to issue a citation should be notified of problem properties and areas.  Once citations are issued, make sure the local court is actually handing out fines...dismissing a litter citation is not the right direction to take...When citizens see that Woodridge is serious about littering, they will work harder to deal with their own trash streams, be it a business, a summer camp, or citizens using our parks as trash dumps.

4.  If you see someone littering, call them on it...a lot of our summer visitors unfortunately seem to feel they are above picking up after themselves and their children....especially at Krieger Park where almost nightly the playground area gets littered with trash.

5.  Clean up after yourselves...and if you are a camp or business and you are gathering up so much garbage around your containers that you cannot close the lids, then get a second container, or have it empty on a more frequent schedule...plastic bags of trash creates a health issue, and a rodent issue.