SALISBURY, MD. (Friday, May 26, 2017) — Perdue associates, their family members and friends across 12states removed 54,000 pounds of trash and debris from streams, woods and roadways and planted more than 50 trees as part of the 10th annual Project Clean Stream, a company-wide effort to help protect and enhance the environment in the communities where associates live and work. Since 2008, 6,855 volunteers have removed in excess of 211 tons of trash from more than 300 sites and planted 4,118 trees.
More than 980 volunteers mobilized clean-ups at 47 local sites on Saturdays in April and May. Their bounty included such items as tires, toys, mattresses, bottles, televisions, bicycles, paper products and much more. Clean-up sites were located in California, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington.
“As part of our company’s values, we strive to be good environmental stewards,” said CEO Randy Day. “We recognize that being a leader in stewardship is not only good for the environment and our company, but it is good for the communities where our associates live and work. We’re proud of our associates’ participation and what it says about our culture and commitment to environmental stewardship.”
In Lewiston, N.C., more than 100 volunteers harvested 5,500 pounds of trash along the roadway near the Perdue plant. “I am so proud to work for a company that creates an environment that encourages us to give back to the community,” said Timothy Mizelle, a Perdue environmental manager. “The participation this year was outstanding from associates and family members to school groups, and we had a great time while making our community a better place to live.”
Project Clean Stream Provides ‘Deeper Connection To Environment’
Project Clean Stream was launched in 2004 by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland as a grass-roots effort to clean up waterways and shorelines in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Perdue joined the volunteer project in 2008 with 30 volunteers at a pond located near our plant in Salisbury, Md. In 2011, Perdue expanded the Project Clean Stream concept across the company to encourage associates to organize similar clean-up efforts in their communities.
“Project Clean Stream provides an exciting opportunity to engage associates in helping protect the environment in our communities, while reinforcing our company’s commitment to being a good corporate citizen,” said Steve Levitsky, vice president of sustainability. “The combined strength of our associates’ efforts has made a tremendous impact in those communities.”
“Project Clean Stream was created by the Alliance to provide a hands-on opportunity for people to get involved with protecting and restoring their local streams and rivers,” said Al Todd, executive Director of the Alliance. “Through Project Clean Stream, volunteers discover a deeper connection to the environment which builds a lasting commitment to environmental stewardship. People care for what they know and love. We are grateful to Perdue for their commitment to Project Clean Stream through their associates’ volunteer efforts and through the Perdue Foundation’s financial support.”
The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the company’s charitable giving arm, recently renewed its years-long support of the Alliance and Project Clean Stream with a $10,000 grant.
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About The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Founded in 1971, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, with headquarters in Annapolis, Md., and offices in Richmond, Virginia, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, works throughout the Bay watershed to lead, support and inspire local action and build partnerships with individuals, communities, governments, businesses and other groups to restore the Bay watershed and its forests, rivers and streams. For more information about the Alliance, visit: www.allianceforthebay.org
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Since Perdue started here why did they not start their cleanup here, their runoff has ruined the Wicomico River all around Bru River stinks from the stench you cannot pull out on Rt 50 going north and not smell the stench. Why do all this beautification in other states and forget their own? Walter would be disgraced for what Frank and Jimmy have done. Their business may have grown but they contribute largely to the ruin of the Wicomico River which we used to could swim in remember the city park where children could swim and further down the river where swimming and boating was a beautiful day on the river.
ReplyDeleteFormer mayor cleaned it! Remember? Lol
DeleteI find it highly funny how the people who do the most pollution, always try to fix their evil deeds, by planting 1 or 2 trees or pick up a candy wrapper from the road..
ReplyDeleteThank you Perdue Foods and all the employees that participated.
ReplyDeleteSome of the comments on this topic are not true and full of 'hot air'...know facts before you speak because this makes you look foolish.
@12:31 please enlighten us on exactly how Perdue isn't or hasn't been a contributing factor in killing the Wicomico river?? How are they processing and treating all the water used in their sanitation department to clean out all waste from processing their product? Its a well known fact by all the locals in that area that for years that water was simply run drainage right into the river. How can you even try to sell some bullsh** story on how his Perdue cares or has concern, I personally knew a women that worked their for 30 years processing chicken never making more than 8.00 hour
DeleteYou mean like all the people bitching about leaving the Paris Agreement, 1231?
ReplyDeleteYes...ruin our main water source but remember to plant a few trees.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Perdue employees.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that you didn't find a body or two.
They are a contributing factor to not only the water in the area but also the land becoming toxic waste dumps. They are also likey a contributing factor to the decline of Sby overall. Many of the workers in the processing plant are paid poverty level wages. This leads to blight because they can't afford if they are lucky enough to afford a home keep it up. It is also why Sby is majority renters. They can't afford homes. They seem to have a lot of foreigners working there which guarantees they can keep the wages low. This affects everyone in the area.
ReplyDeleteStop and do the math; that is 27 tons of debris that citizens saw fit to toss helter skelter. McDonald's bags and wrappers everywhere, drink cups, all forms of trash. Have we become so insensitive that we trash indiscriminately? Now this is just Wicomico county; magnify that to the entire country. And we complain about Trump pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord?
ReplyDeleteSorry, my bad on the last comment. Not just Wicomico county.
ReplyDelete54,000 pounds of Trash?? What did they do, get Rosie O'Donal to move to Canada?
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