Keeping Delray Beach Clean: The Vital Role of Litter Prevention Officers
Did you know that the CRA actively helps to keep our City clean? We’ve even partnered with the City of Delray Beach to establish Litter Prevention Officers, who are two City employees whose sole job is to keep our streets clean. Their job benefits not only our local community members, but also our community as a whole.
The Litter Prevention Officers work within the CRA boundaries and focus heavily on the Northwest and Southwest Neighborhoods. Not only do they canvas these areas every day and address any and all litter concerns, they also identify hotspots and hyper focus their efforts in these areas to prevent any small issues from becoming larger issues.
Additionally, the Officers aim to work with the residents themselves! They engage in outreach and encourage them to properly dispose of trash and recycling properly, participate in City-sponsored neighborhood cleanups, and volunteer for the CRA’s Adopt-A-Street program.
While it’s not an easy job, the two Officers are happy to do it. On average, they remove more than 100 cubic yards of improperly disposed of materials from within the CRA zones every month. That’s close to four full garbage trucks every month!
The mission of the Sanitation Division is to ensure the best possible solid waste collection service to both residential and commercial customers, enforce compliance with service contracts, ensure that customer service problems are resolved within 24 hours, and provide effective litter control and graffiti abatement.
Due to our commitment to our community and our mission of helping to eliminate blight, create a sustainable downtown and encourage economic growth, the CRA funds these two dedicated Litter Prevention Officers, and we’re glad to do it.
If you live in the CRA District and are having an issue with trash or litter, or would like to learn more about how to reduce litter in your neighborhood, we’d love to hear from you.
