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Clean up efforts are being done by the following team, clubs and individuals. Way to go!
ABC Rides headed up by Ario Bigattini-www.abcrides.blogspot.com
Spring Tour de Trash rides are back with several flavors of various rides that allows for different types of community service. Some of the rides will allow for cyclists of all capabilities to join us and actually pick up strewn litter from the roadside and report the trash sites into the county public works. Other rides will involve more skilled riders to comb wider areas of the county and simply report waypoints of large road wayside dumping.
The Tour de Trash is also getting great support from various other organizations with similar interests in helping clean up the community's roads. We are working with Sonoma County's grant program, "Keep Sonoma Clean", to leverage some help from their exposure to the litter cause. Additionally, 53x11 Coffee has also tracked us down and is interested in helping expose the ABC Rides. Marin county continues to support the same format as last Fall's ride in helping them identify illegal dumping.
Team 53x11 Coffee - Fresno riders
November 1st our fresno riders set out on a favorite route to give it a little face lift. The crew was very successful as they completely filled the back of their pickup truck with trash. Drivers and other cyclist riding by gave them the thumbs up. We know the crew inspired others to do their part.
Here's their story:
We settled on cleaning the bubblegum climb. It is a climp on the local loop. There were
a lot of cyclists on the road while we were working, which explains all of
the energy gel packets that we found. I have some pictures from the cleanup.
Not too many. I was busy with my trash bag and couldn't take a lot. I got a
couple when we started out and then a few after we were done. We don't have a weight for you
but we filled the bed of my GMC with all of the stuff that we picked up on a
5 mile stretch. All in all we made a huge difference out there.
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