IMPACT LANCASTER Leadership Challenge Community Challenge Litter is a growing problem in Lancaster City and beyond. Recently, online community groups like the Chestnut Hill Neighbors Facebook Group and Lancaster Unity have discussed the need for more community involvement in cleaning up litter from sidewalks, streets, and parks. While the Lancaster City Alliance Bike Squad & Clean Team and committed residents have done their best in keeping up with litter, it is an ongoing problem that appears to be worsening. Litter impacts quality of life, health, and safety for residents. It also decreases the economic value of both residential and commercial property and impacts local business prosperity. Ultimately, we need to increase awareness, change attitudes and behavior, and engage the community in addressing and preventing this issue. Community Solution We envision raising awareness and engaging the community through a creative and mobile public art project that would bring visibility to littering and encourage responsible recycling and trash disposal. We propose designing and creating mobile litter receptacles called ‘Trash Dragons.’ Each ‘Trash Dragon’ would consist of a bicycle, a series of containers to hold litter, and a creative apparatus resembling a dragon sculpture. See rough sketch below: These kinetic/functional sculptures would serve as a Litter-Busting community engagement tool to increase awareness and education related to littering, recycling, and trash disposal while at the same time collecting litter. In a similar initiative, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design (PCAD) recently partnered with LCSWMA, SDOL, and others to develop the Litter Letter Project public art project to raise local awareness of litter: http://engage.pcad.edu/blog/pcad-trash-talking. This project would expand on that idea by “taking the show on the road” and bringing a mobile public art installation to neighborhoods around the city. Local artists would partner with The Common Wheel and others to transform bicycles to tow a series of barrels and recycle bins. These mobile sculptures could be driven alongside clean-up teams to encourage members of the neighborhoods to interact and get involved. They also serve as receptacles to help with the clean-up itself. Perhaps, it will even help prevent future littering by fostering a sense of community pride and responsibility. We hope their unique design will especially appeal to children and could lead to clean-up/litter-busting partnerships with local schools. While our initial focus would be Lancaster City, if the model is successful, it could be brought to other areas of Lancaster County.
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IMPACT LANCASTER Leadership Challenge
Community Challenge
Litter is a growing problem in Lancaster City and beyond. Recently, online community groups like the
Chestnut Hill Neighbors Facebook Group and Lancaster Unity have discussed the need for more
community involvement in cleaning up litter from sidewalks, streets, and parks. While the Lancaster City
Alliance Bike Squad & Clean Team and committed residents have done their best in keeping up with
litter, it is an ongoing problem that appears to be worsening. Litter impacts quality of life, health, and
safety for residents. It also decreases the economic value of both residential and commercial property
and impacts local business prosperity. Ultimately, we need to increase awareness, change attitudes and
behavior, and engage the community in addressing and preventing this issue.
Community Solution
We envision raising awareness and engaging the community through a creative and mobile public art
project that would bring visibility to littering and encourage responsible recycling and trash disposal.
We propose designing and creating mobile litter receptacles called ‘Trash Dragons.’ Each ‘Trash Dragon’ would consist of a bicycle, a series of containers to hold litter, and a creative apparatus resembling a dragon sculpture. See rough sketch below:
These kinetic/functional sculptures would serve as a Litter-Busting community engagement tool to increase awareness and education related to littering, recycling, and trash disposal while at the same time collecting litter. In a similar initiative, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design (PCAD) recently partnered with LCSWMA,
SDOL, and others to develop the Litter Letter Project public art project to raise local awareness of litter:
http://engage.pcad.edu/blog/pcad-trash-talking.
This project would expand on that idea by “taking the show on the road” and bringing a mobile public
art installation to neighborhoods around the city. Local artists would partner with The Common Wheel
and others to transform bicycles to tow a series of barrels and recycle bins. These mobile sculptures
could be driven alongside clean-up teams to encourage members of the neighborhoods to interact and
get involved. They also serve as receptacles to help with the clean-up itself. Perhaps, it will even help
prevent future littering by fostering a sense of community pride and responsibility. We hope their
unique design will especially appeal to children and could lead to clean-up/litter-busting partnerships
with local schools. While our initial focus would be Lancaster City, if the model is successful, it could be
Emily Landis, Executive Director of the Lancaster Science Factory ([email protected]) Marisa Rosemellia, Science Teacher at Reynolds Middle School, School District of Lancaster
([email protected]) Rob Fisher, Senior Programmer at geographIT, a division of EBA Engineering, Inc.