 Celebration Ideas Show Your Appreciation
Give a treat
Consider meeting your provider with "Thank you" treat. Perhaps candy or cookies? How about a cold bottle of water.
Call/E-Mail to say, "Thank you"
It's easy to complain when things are not done right. Consider calling or e-mailing with a word of thanks and appreciation for all the weeks they do their job well!
Join the Recycling Effort Let's take some ownership for our garbage contributions. Consider ways you can reduce, recycle and reuse the things being thrown in the garbage from your own home. |
The new National Garbage Man Day slogan "Keeping You and the Environment Safe" captures the true mission of these individuals. It's also strikes at the heart of why we celebrate the women and men in the waste management industry. Performing their jobs day in and day out with excellence keeps our local communities and the world at large safe and clean. Many people may not realize the enormous environmental impacts of recycling programs or how their local sanitation workers are positively impacting the world's environment. Why do you Love Your Garbage Man? Because they are "Keeping You and the Environment Safe"!
Join with us the week of June 17th to celebrate
these hard-working women and men for
National Garbage Man Day!
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Garbage Workers picking up trash run an average of 20 miles a day behind a garbage truck!
Like other professions that require physical labor, garbage collecting can put tremendous strain on your body as well. In some cities, trash pickup crews still run an average of 20 miles a day behind moving garbage trucks. Also potentially menacing are the contents of trashcans. Into them, heedless owners sometimes dump broken glass, cat and dog excrement, and chemical waste - one garbage collector in New York City died recently after inhaling fumes from a hazardous chemical someone had illegally poured into a trashcan. Garbage collectors are often disconcerted to find more than garbage in trashcans and dumpsters, including carcasses of pets and possums, broken glass, syringes, even slumbering homeless people.
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