About Us
Keep My Street Green project Is Initiated To Support Sustainable Jersey Goals In Parsippany
Sustainable Jersey is a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting local governments and public schools pursue sustainability initiatives. Participation is voluntary. Certification actions are developed through an ongoing process of discussion and research that includes the participation of over 150 New Jersey leaders and experts from federal and state agencies, universities, nonprofit organizations and the business sector.
Our mission is to collaborate with our residents, Green Teams, town council and business community to identify and implement programs that improve our quality of life and the physical, environmental and financial sustainability of our community.
What is “keep my street green” project
“KeepMyStreetGreen” is a local effort to save our Oceans from Plastic Pollution by doing it through an “Adopt A Street” Program by volunteers. This project was started as an Innovative Community Project in Parsippany, NJ by its Green Team, as part of the Sustainable Jersey goals commitment and is planning to expand into more towns in NJ.
“KEEP MY STREET GREEN”
Is a
Simple concept
keeping our local streets free from plastic pollution
and stopping run-off plastics infiltrating into storm drains
In a Hypothetical Situation,
How much does it impact…
If we can recover few thousands of plastic pieces from one town annually
and it can reach millions if every town adopts in NJ state alone annually..
Adopt A Street Program:
This Program is not a new concept, few other towns are already doing it and currently seeing a positive result..
How Are We Different:
We have some innovative concepts to this program for long term sustainability like..
- A Digital App to log activities, collect data
- Reward Volunteers $
- Data Analytics to various interest groups
- >Data Science programs for High School Students
Who Will Do:
- Volunteers
Our simple goals
Keep Our Storm Drains free from Plastic Debris
Keep Our Storm Drains Free from other trash/garbage
Keep our streets free from cigarette butts
What We Do?
We have Simple & Effective Plan:
- Volunteers pickup Plastic Debris by Walk/Bike once a Week(Yes, Once a Week can produce good results.)
- Log recovered item details via Mobile App
- Educate residents to observe and clean post recycle pickup if any spill overs occur
Resources required:
- Trash Pickup Hand Gun
- Mobile App (To log volunteer activities)
- Educate/Inspire/Reward Volunteers
- Setup a Non-Profit Organization to mobilize/ organize resources.
Comprehensive solution:
- Extend the project from Local Streets to Local Business Areas
- Educate Local Business on our program and goals
- Volunteers can do a “Adopt a Business Area” for cleanups and awareness.
- Create awareness campaigns and simple advisories/policies thru flyers
- KEEP MY STORE GREEN
- KEEP MY HOTEL GREEN
- KEEP MY RESTAURANT GREEN
- Mainly to take care of Plastic and Cigarette butts; not throwing on to streets/parking lots and maintaining proper bin care for cigarette butts which are easily to run-off into storm drains.
- From Government side, look for any of these solutions and make it into a town/street policies.
Some Interesting Facts from our 2020 work
- Total Streets in Parsippany town is Approx. 400 Streets
- In 2020 covered around 10% of streets (around 40 Streets)
- By end of Dec 2021 Planning to cover 80% (around 320 streets) under this program.
- 99% Clean and Green Streets, Business areas, No Plastic debris seepage from Parsippany Town storm drains.
- The same technology platform/app can be utilized by other towns
- Potential to support a digital platform to entire state
- May prevent millions of pieces debris seeping into storm drains and harming marine life
- More Data Science research possible with data collected.
- Review Experimental Data
- Data insights based on this experimental data to take further strategic decisions
- Covered images/numbers of recovered plastic and other hazardous materials in google sheets.
Project Goals 2021
- Bring awareness to more citizens thru other community support Organizations, Schools etc
- Setup Organization Structure as admin/team leads/ volunteers for each town to support the program.
- Identify 15-20 Streets as location based in town and assign to each team lead to help volunteers in those streets.
- Provide resources like Trash Picker Sticks/Digital Apps.
- Maintain Quality data to generate various reports.
- Share the data with town council teams, Sustainable Jersey chapter, other environmental support agencies.
- Total 400 streets in Parsippany and planning to cover 80% of streets (300+streets)
- May need 250-300 Volunteers to cover 80% of Parsippany town
- Support volunteers from other towns who are interested to join project and co-ordinate with sustainability green teams in the associated towns.
Are you ready to support us?
Email: Send your interest of street to participate (Adopt a Street) – Program to admin@keepmystreetgreen.org email or you can also fill out the contact form and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
App Link: Admin will send ‘Digital App’ Link for registration
Registration Steps:
Registration Steps:
- Step1 :Sign Waiver form for all volunteers(Under 16, Parents)
- Step2: Register as volunteer
- Step3: Assign a street you would like to volunteer
Log Activities:
- Clean it(By walk/bike)
- Plan to clean once/twice in month in your adopted street(Apr-Oct) Under 16 kids: Parents must accompany during cleanup activity
- Use ‘Digital App’ (email/password) to login, and update Hrs./pictures of each cleanup
Sustainable Jersey is a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting local governments and public schools pursue sustainability initiatives. Participation is voluntary. Certification actions are developed through an ongoing process of discussion and research that includes the participation of over 150 New Jersey leaders and experts from federal and state agencies, universities, nonprofit organizations and the business sector.
