March 8th Gregg Street Cleanup

I will definitely be participating in this clean-up again next year, really great event! :)

Faebyan Whittle  7 years ago Thank you for joining us Sophia! We really appreciate all your support!

Free breakfast & coffee, very organized, giveaway

I loved this experience! Especially around election time, our generation the "millennial" are constantly belittled in our impacts/values. We're known as the generation that re-posts, shares, and comments via the internet for wanting change, but change only going so far. We're belittled for bringing attention to global climate change, over consumption of consumer goods, and the devastating loss in species and ecosystems. Our generation is so much more, and we have so many people out here that value the Earth all that it is and that it provides for humankind. I had faith that my fellow millennial's would be out there picking up their community, and wouldn't suit the stereotypes and much to my surprise there were but there were also an abundance of younger generations 12 year olds-16 year olds! I was amazed by how passionate our youth is about making a change for the better. I was honored to volunteer alongside those younger than me! I heard their stories, their goals for making community impacts, and other outreaches that relate to environmental trash collection. We all listened to music while picking up and we split our groups up and had some people focus on recycling pick up and some people focus on trash pick up and some focus on just cigarette buds! We had one girl in our group collect half of a trash bag of cigarettes! It was insane. My best friend and I were ecstatic to have been apart of such an outreach, we were treated with coffee and breakfast delights and given the appropriate gear for trash collection! We filled up 2 trash bags and 2 recycling bags together and we were in shock how many people threw out alcohol bottles, beer bottles, 7 Brew cups, straws, cigarettes, milk jugs, McDonald's bags among other miscellaneous things. I was disgusted by the carelessness, and disregard for these items that many people pollute our Earth with. However, I was enlightened by those around me wanting to clean it up, even though they didn't litter they knew it had to be done. I was inspired by how many people honked at us and chanted alongside our sidewalk pick-ups and it made me realize that our humanity is very much alive in our little state of Arkansas. Little by little we can make a huge change it just starts with us, and I'm grateful for Pack Rat supporting this cause. I posted my entire experience on all of my social medias and I have about 10 friends lined up for the next clean up! Thank you all for making Fayetteville beautiful and letting us help out!

Faebyan Whittle  7 years ago Thank you so much, Hayley for joining us to clean up Gregg street! We really appreciated your time and all your support!