REGINA -- Ward 8 Councillor Shanon Zachidniak and her family spent Earth Day cleaning up garbage around the Regina. The idea came from her son Wylie Tzupniak, who challenged people on social media last year to clean up their neighbourhoods. It’s now an annual tradition for the family, which resulted some big collections this Earth Day Zachidniak said the pandemic has increased the need for cleaning up the environment, and it’s an easy thing to do. “I think unfortunately with COVID the amount of garbage for a variety of reasons has just increased,” Zachidniak said. The family filled five shopping bags with garbage and a bag of recycling in the morning. Several more bags were filled in the afternoon.