For the past six years, Duxbury residents have taken the matter of cleaning up their town into their own hands – literally – as part of the annual town-wide litter sweeps. The spring litter sweep will take place this Saturday, May 7. It is open to all members of the community.
During the litter sweep, volunteers go to the Tarkiln Community Center, 245 Summer Street, at 8 a.m. to grab blue town trash bags and then go out to any area of town to pick up trash and fill their bags. The bags are returned to Tarkiln by 4 p.m. The sweeps, which take place spring and fall, began in 2011.
One of the organizers, Paul Mabey, said he saw the announcement for the first litter sweep proposed by Summer Street resident Mary Gazzola in 2011 and thought that that was something he could get behind.