Since Oct. 9, 2009...

• 247 Volunteers
• 116 bags of trash
• 174 bags of recycling

Semper Technology, Inc., is proud to be involved in this great community litter cleanup event.
Beginning with the first cleanup on October 3, 2009, a total of 247 volunteers at this semi-annual event have removed 116 bags of trash and 174 bags of recycling from our communities and watershed.

But this event is not just about picking-up litter, it's about bringing awareness to our growing litter problem as well as simple solutions to prevent litter, like:

• Using a covered recycling tote to prevent light-weight recycling from blowing into the street or into the brush which typically happens when using the obsolete open-top tote.
• Adopting simple lifestyle habits, like:
  • Choosing durable, reusable products instead of disposable.
  • Choosing reusable beverage containers instead of bottled water or other bottled drinks.
  • Choosing reusable bags instead of disposable ones.

Please click here to learn more about why these small steps can make a huge positive impact to you and the environment as well as other ways you can make a difference. Try them today!

To make it as easy and affordable as possible to help reduce your environmental impact, Semper Technology, Inc. has launched its Shared Planet Solutions products and services, so we look forward to helping you green-up our shared planet for generations to come.

Save the Date: Spring 2012 Cascades Trash Bash - March 25, 2012

Celebrate Spring with your neighbors by making a difference in your community. Mark your calendar and come on out and help make this the best Cascades Trash Bash ever by spending some quality time with family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors beautifying our communities and communities downstream.

Stay tuned here for more details and the official flyer.

Please let us know if you are interested in volunteering, sponsoring, or if you have any questions by sending an email to Mark Lenko. We are also happy to help other communities host their own successful litter cleanups.

Some interesting facts about previous Cascades Trash Bashes

October 30, 2011

Here is the photo slide show and the flyer from the October 30, 2011 Cascades Trash Bash, where we had 30 participants, including families with small children, teens, and several Scout troops. In 3½ hours, we collected an impressive 7 orange bags of trash and 24 blue bags of recycling, plus some other miscellaneous objects, like 4 car tires and a street sign. While participation was on the light side, perhaps due to the unusual snow shower the day before, the dedicated volunteers enjoyed a beautiful, sunny Fall day walking around and beautifying our community by ridding it of unsightly and harmful litter.

During the pre-cleanup time in the parking lot of our gracious host, Potomac Baptist Church, volunteers enjoyed refreshments generously provided by Giant Food (Cascades) and Semper Technology, Inc. and picked-up the ever-popular Cascades Trash Bash and Keep Loudoun Beautiful t-shirts. To encourage an eco-friendly lifestyle, volunteers were offered reusable bottles provided by Semper Technology, Inc.'s Shared Planet Solutions as well as practical reusable bags provided by Giant Food (Cascades) and the Cascades Green Team. We even collected the orange and banana peels for composting to demonstrate that you can have an event and still be environmentally responsible...and it's easy.

At the request of a scout leader, we even had a brief discussion regarding what happens to trash and recycling once picked-up from the curb since it is important that everybody, especially the young folks, understands that whatever we discard just doesn't disappear. It's either buried, burned, recycled, or becomes litter...all of which could be avoided if we simply reduce what we consume and adopt a reusable lifestyle.

To thank the volunteers for dedicating a few hours for their community, many, many great door prizes were given out courtesy of our faithful sponsors to wrap-up the pre-cleanup meeting.

Armed with orange & blue bags, gloves, safety vests, and litter-grabbing sticks, the enthusiastic trash-bashers thoroughly cleaned-up around Lowes Island and another team did a terrific job of cleaning-up the Sugarland Run floodplain under the Algonkian Parkway bridge.

April 3, 2011

Here is the photo slide show and the flyer from the April 3, 2011 Cascades Trash Bash, where we had 83 participants, including families with small children, teens, and several Scout troops. In 3½ hours, we collected an amazing 34 orange bags of trash and 51 blue bags of recycling, plus some other miscellaneous objects, like car tires and poles. We even reunited a stolen briefcase that was discovered in a stream with its owner. Check out this great Loudoun Times-Mirror newspaper article written by Kathie Felix: http://www.loudountimes.com/index.php/communities/article/cascades_trash_bash_cleans_up_more_than_ever/

Many thanks to our faithful sponsors...

Let's face it, picking-up litter isn't very glamorous and it is easy to think of many other ways to spend an afternoon, so our sponsors go above and beyond to help to make it as fun, easy, and rewarding as possible with gift card door prizes, coupons, eco-friendly giveaways, refreshments, equipment, and services.

• American Disposal Services
• Animal Medical Center of Cascades
• Cascades Community Association Green Team
• Giant Food (Cascades)
• Keep Loudoun Beautiful
• Majest Martial Arts (Cascades)
• Parcel Plus (Cascades)
• Robeks (Cascades)
• Semper Technology, Inc.
• Sports Authority (Cascades)
• Subway (Great Falls Plaza)

You can follow the Cascades Trash Bash on Twitter for the latest news on upcoming litter cleanup events.

For more information about our environmental programs and projects, please contact us.

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