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Great Garbage Grab (at the Lab) starts today

Part of National Volunteer Week

Laboratory employees can help beautify the areas in which they work by participating in the first Great Garbage Grab (at the Lab) starting today.

The litter clean-up and beautification is being held in conjunction with National Volunteer Week and the Lab's celebration of Earth Day, which is Thursday.

The events are sponsored by the Risk Reduction and Environmental Stewardship (RRES), Facilities and Waste Operations (FWO) and Communications and External Relations (CER) divisions.

The theme of Earth Day at the Lab is "By Protecting the Environment, I Protect Our Health."

The theme for National Volunteer Week is "Inspire by Example."

The Great Garbage Grab at the Lab continues through April 30 and allows Lab employees to compete against each other in a form of friendly competition for a chance to win a "Traveling Trash Trophy" for the organization collecting the most litter, said Debbi Wersonick of the Community Relations (CRO) Office.

Lab workers, individually or in teams, can sign up to pick up litter and refuse on main roads, parking lots and immediate areas in and around the technical areas where they work. Employees can sign up by calling Wersonick at 7-7870, or they can print out a Great Garbage Grab at the Lab sign up sheet from theFWO Web page, complete it and send to Wersonick.

A Great Garbage Grab at the Lab Web page can be found at http://fwo.lanl.gov/ online.

For more Earth Day information, call Camille Bustamante of RRES-PP at 930-3174. For information about the Great Garbage Grab (at the Lab) and other National Volunteer Week activities, call Wersonick at 7-7870.

For more information, see the April 15 Daily Newsbulletin.

-- Steve Sandoval

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