Purpose
Objectives
- Foster community spirit
- City-wide Beautification Efforts
- Parks, streets, neighborhoods
- Reaching out to the community on behalf of City Staff to ask for help in keeping El Mirage clean
Strategy
- City Manager is Leading by Example
- Monthly photo winner
- “Do Not Litter” T-Shirts
- New Red and Green Trash Receptacles
What is Littering?
Per Arizona Revised Statues Section 13-1603 (http://www.azleg.gov/ars/13/01603.htm)
- A person commits criminal littering or polluting if the person without lawful authority does any of the following:
- Throws, places, drops or permits to be dropped on public property or property of another that is not a lawful dump any litter, destructive or injurious material that the person does not immediately remove.
- Discharges or permits to be discharged any sewage, oil products or other harmful substances into any waters or onto any shorelines within this state.
- Dumps any earth, soil, stones, ores or minerals on any land.