City Leaders, Plastic Ocean Project, NCDOT partner up for litter sweep

City Leaders, Plastic Ocean Project, NCDOT partner up for litter sweep
Litter pickup with NCDOT Officials (Source: WECT News)
By Elly Cosgrove | April 17, 2021 at 7:31 PM EDT - Updated April 17 at 7:31 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Volunteers of all ages gathered to pick up litter Saturday in Wilmington.
City and state leaders, volunteers from the Plastic Ocean Project and UNCW students participated in the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s annual Spring litter sweep.
The NCDOT typically has a fall and spring litter sweep every year. Both sweeps were canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic.
“We did have to cancel our last two litter sweep programs,” said Eric Boyette, NCDOT Deputy Secretary who was at the event in Wilmington. “We had to be safe—that’s the first thing we want to make sure we’re safe as a state with our citizens and our employees. So now to be able to get out to have the volunteers that we need because volunteers are muscle, that’s our muscle to make sure that we do keep North Carolina clean and pick up our litter.”

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