The Green Patrol

05/13/2025

If you are repurposing/ upcycling pallets, this is useful information. Don’t use ones stamped “MB” because they use the preservative MethylBromide. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FKkqZL1Er/?mibextid=UalRPS

04/22/2025

Happy Earth Day, 2025 everyone! Great News, this page has been quiet and we haven’t done any litter patrols or supported events with “zero waste” efforts for a few years, but that pause ends TODAY! These efforts have found a new home within a 501c3 charity founded by our original founder, Shawn Frost. He has connected with great folks to create a great program. The first goal is to collect 100 bags of litter before the Fourth of July. We NEED YOU! Post your picture here or tag us on your timeline. We will be randomly be giving gifts to people who post their litter patrol hauls. Let’s go have a BLAST keeping our community clean, green, and pristine.

04/06/2023

This founding member of the Green Patrol just committed to a PhD program where she will be working in a lab specializing in biopolymers!

All set up to sort at the ocean hour clean up

07/10/2022

10 Years on Twitter. Hundreds of bags of litter patrolled from our streets and waterways and several tons of material sent back to industry diverted from the landfill through our event recycling program. Excited for what the next 10 years will hold.

“Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! post your 5th of July clean up photos below to show you love America enough to keep it Clean, Green, and Pristine.”

07/04/2022

Today is World Firefly Day. Keep your eyes out for these. In the south some call them "lightning bugs". What do you call them?

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲

The first Saturday in July has been named "World Firefly Day" by the folks at Friends of Fireflyers International. Here are some links to share. ~rce via Dr. Jared Barnes.

𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞
https://files.nc.gov/ncparks/north-carolina-state-parks-year-beetle-field-resources-firefly-flash-patterns.pdf

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬
https://www.firefly.org/plants-for-fireflies

The Xerces Society Article
https://xerces.org/blog/world-firefly-day-keeping-fireflies-in-neighborhood

06/27/2019

No plastic bags in the blue bins!

06/21/2014

1 minute summary of the green patrol.