Warren volunteers clean up nearly 7,000 nip bottles for Earth Day
More than 200 volunteers more than tripled last year's total for nip bottles picked up from local roadsides, parks, and beaches.
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Warren volunteers clean up nearly 7,000 nip bottles for Earth Day
To celebrate this year's Earth Day on April 22, more than 200 volunteers scoured Warren’s roadsides, parks, and beaches to remove litter. One of their missions was to gather and count discarded nip bottles in order to win gift certificates to Ocean State Job Lot. Alerted by a Warren Times-Gazette article, some contestants had spent much of April collecting the nip bottles along roadsides throughout the Town.
Adding to these impressive numbers, nip bottles gathered by other volunteers brought the grand total to 6,942, greatly surpassing the Warren Conservation Commission’s goal of doubling last year’s yield of 2,200 nip bottles.
Commission President Butch Lombardi noted that “nips really are a problem!"
Less so, today, thanks to so many benevolent volunteers.
