Friday
Middle School students will be investigating and addressing the issue of litter at school which can lead to more complex projects that tackle recycling. They will challenge their peers to see how much recycled items they can collect for a month. The profits will go back to each school, where the money can be used to build a new garden. Other schools will be creating arts and crafts items made out of recycled materials, planting trees on campus, starting a vegetable garden at school, testing water quality at their schools, campus clean up, graffiti removal and painting a mural, going on a nature hike, and much more.

Saturday
Don't let litter trash your community! 700 Middle School students along with concerned citizens will pick up litter throughout Greater San Jose during the Great American Litter Pick Up on Saturday, April 25, 2009. The Volunteer Center of Silicon Valley, in collaboration with the City of San Jose, Greater San Jose After-School All-Stars and other regional anti-litter campaign partners, will be recruiting volunteers for litter pick up activities throughout each of the ten districts in San Jose.

Sunday
We will be taking a group of 75 Middle School students to Seacliff State Beach, in Aptos, CA. We will help clean up local beaches! Pick up plastic, styro-foam, balloons, and other debris from our beaches before it gets out into the ocean where seabirds, sea turtles, marine mammals and other animals can get entangled or eat it. Prevent plastic pollution, save the oceans.

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