Earth Day falls on Tuesday, this year, but Bloomfielders are going to be hopping to it beginning Saturday morning. The Township of Bloomfield Recycling Committee is sponsoring a town-wide cleanup as part of Earth Day activities around the nation and the world – to call attention to the need to care for and save the environment.
It will be headquartered in Brookside Park at the corner of Broad St. and Bay Ave from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 19th. Participants will be given gloves, green vests and plastic bags to collect trash and recyclables not only in Brookside Park but in other parts of Bloomfield as well.
Families are encouraged to join in this effort with their children. (Graphic from GreenPeace)
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13 replies on “Head Start for Earth Day”

  1. is it true that joe hartnett is preventing the video of the environmental forum from being shown on channel 34 so that voters who could not attend will not be able to see Joyce Michaelson brag about buying a Prius for this election season?

  2. As long as Nascar hosts drag racing, fumes and all, I will consider environmentalism unpatriotic.

  3. with joe hartnett at the helm, montclair is way behind bloomfield in creative ways to promote recycling. he refuses to enforce the recycling laws on the books and it is certainly unpatriotic to censor the environmental forum video.

  4. Living on Broad Street in Bloomfield, I will be spending my Saturday morning picking up the cigarette butts and other discarded items tossed from passing cars by the pigs who think the world is their ashtray and garbage dump.
    I really have nothing but contempt for smokers these days. It’s bad enough that you want to kill yourselves and everyone around you, but do you really need to be such slobs about it too?

  5. Gloves, green vests and plastic baggies – I guess the vests are green to distinguish them from the prisoners and court appointed community service people who wear orange.
    Sounds like fun, you can come by and recycle my icy cold beer bottles.

  6. Not just that, Pork Roll. Two youths shuffled by my house, near Watchung Plaza, last evening, eating junk food. One threw his garbage on the sidewalk, and kept going. They didn’t know if they should look defiant or not, so they faked smiles the whole time.
    They did pick up their junk, however.

  7. Too bad the Montclair Schools don’t have their kids pick up the garbage that they generate around the school.
    Is there an environmental club at MHS?
    If so, what are they doing for Earth Day?

  8. Sitting on their fat asses playing video games, what do you think? When they get bored, they’ll go out for a blunt and a brewski and discard the cans in a nearby forest.
    Happy Earth Day.

  10. A friend of mine saw a guy pulling his car out of the Bensen Street Green parking lot yesterday and proceed to clean out his car right onto the ground and about a foot away from the garbage container. She said that he noticed her watching him and he made a cursory attempt to pick up only a bit of the garbage and place it properly in the can.
    Living in Bloomfield for nigh on ten years, I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a street sweeper or any clean up crew in the parks or on public streets. Grody to the max!

  11. I picked up a plastic bag full of trash from the park on Saturday. It was pretty clean: I had to rifle through leaves under bushes to find trash, and mostly it was cigarette butts and cellophane wrappers to smokes.
    Maybe Earth Day should be renamed Clean Up Smokers’ Litter Day.

  12. As far as Earth Day rituals, I can’t recommend the film “Battlefield Earth” highly enough as the perfect cinematic accompaniment to Earth Day. In fact, on Saturday, we had a DVD of it playing on a loop for the kids in the back seat of the SUV as we drove around town from one Earth Day festivity to the next. If your children liked John Travolta in Hairspray, they’ll love him in this film!

  13. The Bloomfield street sweeper comes by my area twice a week, thus the alterative side parking rules. I suspect it?s because the college and its students are always tossing trash everywhere. People lawns are covered, the streets are horrid. The idea that the center is dragging down the town is wrong, it?s that college and its lack of responsibility toward the community. I haven?t noticed cigarette butts as the problem but those little plastic baggies sure seem to be all over the place and the plastic from cigars. Granted its college, but when I went to school we were smart enough not to leave a trail of evidence to our dorms.

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