Volunteering once is great, but ongoing effort to improve and maintain our community is better. CleanStPaul.org is a social experiment, a response to the question How to improve the litter problem and support a cleaner more livable community? The thought occurred hmm monetary incentive might do. Supporting that strategy, CleanStPaul.org provides a secure, potentially anonymous (depending on your payment account settings) hub for volunteers and appreciative would-be donors to transact.
Benefits?
Some benefits an online hub lets interested donors find their intended recipient after the fact, at a time and place convenient for them, with choices of donation format. Additionally, it expands the potential donor group beyond those who can stop to interact, to anyone internet smartphone user who sees a volunteer and CleanStPaul.org address, which if cleaning in heavily trafficked areas could mean many (many) potential donors. Coincidentally, heavily trafficked areas also tend to accumulate lots of litter.
Legal Disclaimer:
CleanStPaul.org does not guarantee inclusion of potential volunteers on its website. CleanStPaul.org can’t be liable for injuries sustained by volunteers, who work independently and with fully autonomous judgement and without oversight or direction or instructions or compensation from CleanStPaul.org, which only facilitates independent transactions between volunteers and donors, and which does not guarantee any income or suggest any benefit to heroic feats of litter retrieval. Any risky actions of volunteers in pursuit of litter retrieval are entirely of their own volition and not promoted or encouraged or endorsed by CleanStPaul.org, since CleanStPaul.org expressly prohibits risky behavior in service of litter retrieval, therefore exempting CleanStPaul.org from any possible legal liability. Regardless, the following safety rules are relevant and must be understood and agreed to by the potential volunteer in order to possibly be associated @ CleanStPaul.org website, for maintaining everyone’s safety while cleaning litter in our community:
- ***NEVER EVER PICK UP LITTER IN THE STREET BECAUSE DRIVERS MAY NOT SEE YOU AND COULD HIT AND KILL YOU!!!
- DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RETRIEVE LITTER IN POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS AREAS, SUCH AS STEEP EMBANKMENTS, CLIFFS, SWAMPS, FAST MOVING WATER, QUICKSAND, PRIVATE PROPERTY, CONSTRUCTION AREAS, NEAR MOVING VEHICLES OR WILD OR AGGRESSIVE ANIMALS, BECAUSE YOU COULD BE INJURED OR KILLED!!
- DO NOT PICK UP LITTER WITH YOUR BARE HANDS BECAUSE LITTER MAY BE SHARP AND CUT OR PUNCTURE YOUR SKIN, CAUSING AN INFECTION THAT COULD SICKEN OR KILL YOU; CARRY HAND SANITIZER, AND ALWAYS USE A GRABBING TOOL SUCH AS THAT PICTURED ABOVE!!
- ALWAYS WEAR EYE PROTECTION IF PICKING LITTER IN WOODED AREAS, OR ANYWHERE BRANCHES COULD POKE OUT YOUR EYE!!
- NEVER CROSS THE STREET EXCEPT IN DESIGNATED CROSSWALKS AND ALWAYS FOLLOW ALL PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC AND SAFETY LAWS!!
- ALWAYS BE MINDFUL WATCH FOR OTHER PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS TO AVOID COLLISIONS WHEN NAVIGATING IN THE COMMUNITY!!
- ALWAYS EXERCISE COMMON SENSE!!
You still want to volunteer? Suggest? Comment? Great!
Please send comments suggestions or questions re joining this site as a community volunteer (is free just need to create donation link(s) for to post to this site, and acquisition of signage, tools, safety equipment left to you).