TOLEDO, Ohio — Members of the community got together on Sunday to make the area's already beautiful parks look nice and healthy for Earth Day on Monday.
Metroparks Toledo hosted clean up events at four locations including: Glass City Metropark, International Park, Wiregrass Lake, and Keil Farms, which is the site of a future Metropark.
Dozens of participants showed up at International Park for the event.
"We are right next to an incredible resource right here; the Maumee River. It's very important, and all that trash and all that litter has a very easy route to the river which has an easy route to the lake,” said Meredith Busic with the Toledo Metroparks Wildlife Services Department. “The lake is very important for not only habitats or all of our ecosystems, but also for us as well."
In Perrysburg, about 75 volunteers helped clean up litter along the Maumee River at Orleans and Rivercrest Park.
Volunteers even documented the typ of litter found in different areas.
"We like to think that most of the trash we find in the environment is windblown, but we do know that sometimes people intentionally litter,” said Laurent Rush, Perrysburg Stormwater Program Manager. “But, humans create trash, humans can clean it up. And coming out to a cleanup and seeing trash out in the environment will stop anyone from littering ever again, so we always encourage people to join the events."
The cleanup will continue next Saturday at Municipal and Three Meadows Park.
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