Community Comes Together for Blue Bucket Project’s Winter Flash Trash Mob

Community Comes Together for Blue Bucket Project's Winter Flash Trash Mob

OMAHA, Nebraska — The nice weather provided an opportunity for neighbors to gather for a cleanup event on the South Omaha trail, which is typically done every Saturday from spring to fall.

  • A group of 16 volunteers showed up to clean 25 plus bags of trash in just an hour.
  • Blue Bucket Project volunteers share why cleaning up litter is so important for the community.
  • “We are bikers, so we see this trash all the time when we when we ride on the trail so we know this is a bad spot. It’s just one of those catch all’s.”

It’s a beautiful day to pick up trash, and these 25+ bags of waste along the South Omaha Trail are the result of our neighbors’ efforts with The Blue Bucket Project.

When you attend one of these flash trash mobs, organized by the nonprofit The Blue Bucket Project, you will be given a bucket and a grabber and assigned to work for an hour cleaning up our community.

Typically done every Saturday from spring to fall, founder Cindy Tefft decided Sunday was an extra day to get out and make a difference.

“Our country is going through some upheaval, and people are upset and so this is a chance for everybody to go get away from social media, get outside, breathe some fresh air, and it’s a really beautiful day for February 2nd,” says Tefft.

A beautiful day spent revisiting a location previously cleaned up by Blue Bucket volunteers.

“We pass by the trash all the time. Cars drive by it. “This ditch, for example, really catches the wind,” Tefft explained.

“We are bikers, so we see this trash all the time when we ride on the trail, so we know this is a problem area. “It’s just one of those catch-alls,” said Nancy Kelly, a board member for The Blue Bucket Project.

We’re cleaning up our trails so people like Nancy and Ricky can continue to enjoy them.

“I’m in an actual like a one-wheel group and we, we do from, we start at the field club trail, we come all the way down here and go all the way to Aksarben Village and we do like a whole hangout day just riding around on these trails, so why not take care of them,” Ricky Murphy, a volunteer, told me.

If you want to participate in a cleanup, go to Bluebucketprojectomaha.com for more information.

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