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Macon-Bibb County hosts first ever countywide community cleanup

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Macon-Bibb County hosts first ever countywide community cleanup
Macon-Bibb County hosts first ever countywide community cleanup

April is national volunteer month.

And now a new volunteer event is being put on in Macon-Bibb county.

This is both an in-person and virtual event.

We'll have coverage tonight at 11.

Happening tomorrow: macon-bibb county and other community partners are hosting a cleanup.

41 nbc's lizbeth gutierrez spoke with organizers, and has more on how this will impact the area.

Standup: the clean streets matter initiative began in january to help pick up trash and stop illegal dumping like this in the area.

Getting these streets clean making them beautiful, hopefully that deters people from bringing back trash and illegal dumping or just throwing out trash out the window, you know macon bibb county residents are proud to live in this community, and we want it to be a clean community" the clean streets matter intiative in pleasent hill began earlier this year.

Caroline childs, executive director with keep macon bibb beautiful, says they have colleceted over two million pounds of trash and hosted over 16 community clean ups so far.

We're focusing in on some of our industrial parks where we've noticed that there has been a collection of littering and trash, and so we wanted to be out here and show that we want to make a difference and we hope that other people will see us and we are looking forward to having a lot of community partners stephen adams, the executive director for the industrial authority, says the countywide cleanup means a lot to the community.

The macon bibb industrial authority for recruiting iindustries a big part of that are sales pitch and the recruitment of new industries is having a clean community, so being out here and being a part of this efforts it helps with our efforts.

The cleanups will begin around 8 a-m tomorrow.

And if it rains, the event will be moved to sunday.

In macon, lizbeth gutierrez, 41 nbc news.

If you would like to participate in the cleanup and have not registered, it's okay.

You can help at one of the nbc c1 3 b13 news.

Gutierrez, 41 lizbeth in macon, lizbeth gutierrez, 41 nbc news.

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