Clean Up Give Back - OPRF Chapter

One beautiful fall morning and 20 community members = 140 pounds of litter removed from Sunset Bridge Meadow!

OPRF Civics Students
Urban Village Church-West
Clean Up Give Back - OPRF Chapter



Forest Preserve District of Cook County

Looks Can be Deceiving: Cleaning a Litter Hotspot! On Saturday, October 28, 2023, the Oak Park chapter of Clean Up Give Back partnered with Urban Village Church to clean up Sunset Bridge Meadow Forest Preserve. There were 20 of us in total, including some families from the church and some OPRF civics students like myself! I had heard that Sunset Bri...

A huge shout out to the Civics teachers, Environmental Science teachers, and Enviro Club at OPRF for encouraging their students to volunteer their time at BarrieFest - Takeout 25 Green Dining Hub Launch this weekend!

Over 40 OPRF students patrolled the park for litter, sorted waste from the food festival, and helped the restaurants breakdown their stalls. They collected 194 pounds of waste with nearly 2/3 being diverted from the landfill. And, they did it all with a smile on their faces!

These kids are brilliant at building community through environmental stewardship.

Blog from one of our teen board members: https://cugboprf.wixsite.com/home/post/barrie-fest-where-there-s-food-there-s-waste

This is the crew that cleaned up after the festival was over... the least glamorous job and they killed it! A giant thanks to this crew for topping off a great day.

SEOPCO South East Oak Park Community Organization, Takeout 25 Oak Park

SEOPCO South East Oak Park Community Organization SEOPCO is a neighborhood organization serving the residents of South East Oak Park, Illinois.