Ways to Reduce Waste and Litter

Try these fun, Lake-friendly activities as a way to reduce waste and litter! Remember to Refuse, Reduce, Repair, Reuse, and then Recycle.

Activities hosted by the League include:

• Learn how to collect litter data while you conduct a cleanup in your own neighborhood. Download this cleanup data card and submit to www.keeptahoeblue.org/cleanupdata or email to events@keeptahoeblue.org. 
• Play Litter Bingo while keeping your neighborhood litter-free.
• Understanding your own waste footprint by conducting a trash audit.
• An informative video of a Q & A panel with Tahoe-Truckee recycling and waste management experts.
• Re-purposing an old a t-shirt into a reusable bag.
• Grow your own fresh vegetables at home with help from these resources.
• Speak out to stop plastic pollution at its source.
• Listen to our discussion about microplastics with the Desert Research Institute (DRI)
• Complete an at-home microplastics activity

Check out all these activities and more at keeptahoeblue.org/activities.

We love to see your photos! Tag pictures of you and your family doing one of the many Earth Month activities with the hashtags #keeptahoeblue and #litterfreetahoe for a chance to be featured on the League's social media!