Mississippi Inland Cleanup Program beautifying Southeast Mississippi

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) – Communities throughout the Southeastern area of Mississippi are receiving greater than only a serving to hand cleansing up their cities due to a program from Biloxi.

The Mississippi Inland Cleanup Program is a litter, schooling, prevention, and consciousness program that’s hosted by Mississippi State College.

This system began on the coast however has now ventured out to assist communities from the coast as much as Neshoba and Kemper counties beautify their areas.

“Most Mississippians like to be exterior. Hospitality is a large trade for our state and litter and trash, and issues like that basically affect these industries and our recreation exterior. So by beautifying and ensuring that we’ve a variety of outreach towards our neighborhood. We all know what to do with our trash, we all know the place it goes, we all know what we must be doing, and making higher selections when selecting plastic merchandise and issues like that. It’s simply actually necessary that we get that data out,” mentioned MICP Program Director Jessie James.

MICP can be heading to Meridian for a cleanup occasion Saturday, January 28 at Bonita Lakes from 9 a.m.-11 a.m.

Program Director Jessie James talks in regards to the significance of teaching communities about cleansing up the areas they reside in.

“Actually having a superb understanding of not solely disposing of our trash correctly however getting this understanding of what occurs once we throw it away. Does it even make it to a recycling facility, what occurs at that recycling facility? Extra importantly, what can we be doing on the entrance finish to forestall this trash from occurring? And all of these working collectively is de facto what’s going to make a distinction not solely with the local weather however the surroundings and simply native beautification,” mentioned James.

If you want to take part within the Bonita Lakes cleanup occasion all it’s good to do is deliver water and a few associates.  This system supplies all cleanup provide wants. To be taught extra about this system or future occasions go to the Mississippi Inland Cleanup Program Fb web page.

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