The Great Middlesex Green Up is off to a good start thanks to more than 50 volunteers who came out Saturday to pick up trash along roads. The litter pick up, which coincided with Earth Day 2023, collected 125 bags full of trash, said organizer, Tom Maffey. “We got a lot of ‘Thank yous’ and thumbs up from people living along the routes. It’s clear that our fellow citizens appreciated the efforts to improve the community,” Maffey said.
Volunteers were key to the success, Maffey added. “There are some things that governments at each level from town to federal either cannot, or won’t do because they lack resources. This is where volunteers fit in to fill those gaps. The fact that over 50 people turned out to volunteer their time to clean up roads all over Middlesex County certainly helps restore one’s faith in the goodness of our fellow citizens.”
Great Middlesex Green Up is a countywide initiative of Keep Middlesex Beautiful (KMB) running in April and May to clean up Middlesex roadways, said Baxter “Trip” Phillips III of Deltaville. The Green Up is a grassroots effort to restore and preserve the natural beauty of Middlesex.
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