by Janet Boscarino | May 24, 2019 | Community Engagement
Recently, the Clean Memphis team joined Memphis City Beautiful, Memphis River Parks Partnership, and Wolf River Conservancy in coordinating a riverside cleanup project for A New Century of Service day of action. On May 22, United Way of the Mid-South and Volunteer...
by Kathleen Quinlen | May 21, 2019 | Dreaming Green
If you followed along with our Earth Day 30 Days Straight posts for the past few years, you may have noticed we repeatedly bring up one particularly pesky plastic as especially problematic: polystyrene foam, sometimes also identified as Styrofoam. (Fun fact: Styrofoam...
by Kathleen Quinlen | May 17, 2019 | Cleaner Greener, Zero Waste
We loved reading this recent update from our friends over at The Compost Fairy about eliminating plastic yard waste bags from their subscription service. After all, those leaves and grass clippings aren’t really even waste when they’re being added to...
by Kathleen Quinlen | May 10, 2019 | Community Engagement
Chris Collier grew up in Memphis and fondly remembers spending time at Gaisman Park. Years later, he and his wife Jana moved into a house near the park, which had changed for the worse over the past ten years. Maintenance had dwindled, and drinking and drug use...