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Recycle Responsibly: Plastic Bag Awareness Day
Recycle Responsibly: Plastic Bag Awareness Day Recycling organizations and educators have come together and created the Recycle Responsibly campaign! This region-wide education campaign is to help everyone in the St. Louis metro area recycle the proper thing in their recycling bins and keep plastic bags out! On April 13th, we will be at select grocery stores sharing with residents […]
Plant Window Boxes – Volunteers Needed
Plant Window Boxes – Volunteers Needed With the help of volunteers, every year Brightside prepares beautiful window boxes that get displayed on the windows of City Hall. We need your help in preparing the window boxes (adding box liner, soil and plant flowers). When: Saturday, March 30th, 8:00am – Noon Where: The Greenhouse in Forest Park While […]
O’Fallon Park Spring Planting and BBQ
O’Fallon Park Spring Planting and BBQ Let’s get “Back to Nature STL” with the O’Fallon Park planting and BBQ Party. Volunteers are needed to help planting native plants in the Milkweeds for Monarchs garden and rain gardens located in the O’Fallon Park Recreation Complex parking lot. Where: O’Fallon Park Recreation Complex, 4343 West Florissant When: Friday, April […]
April Blitz Events — Volunteers Needed!
April Blitz Events — Volunteers Needed! What’s Brightside up to this month? Check out this list of events and projects we’re looking forward to for April (Earth Month!). Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!
March Blitz Events — Volunteers Needed!
March Blitz Events — Volunteers Needed! What’s Brightside up to this month? Check out this list of events and projects we’re looking forward to for March. Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!
February Blitz Projects – Volunteers Needed!
February Blitz Projects – Volunteers Needed! What’s Brightside up to this month? Check out this list of events and projects we’re looking forward to for February. Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!
How Did We Make St. Louis Thrive and Grow in 2018?
How Did We Make St. Louis Thrive and Grow in 2018? From Blitz neighborhood clean-ups and graffiti removal to planting native plants and flowers and providing recycling bins, Brightside thanks you for your support! Together, in 2018 alone, we have: Enhanced green spaces with 130,000 annuals and 40,000 native perennials, grasses, shrubs and trees along […]
Recycle Responsibly
Recycle Responsibly Recycle Responsibly is the area’s first, region-wide recycling campaign that will help everyone in the St. Louis area “Stick With the Six” items that can be recycled in our region. Plus learn why it’s so important to keep plastic bags and other contaminants out of recycling bins. Did you know that 2,663 plastic bags […]