Perdue associates, their family members and friends across 11 states removed 40,000 pounds of trash and debris from streams, woods, and roadways as part of the ninth annual Project Clean Stream, a company-wide effort to help protect the environment in the communities where Perdue associates live and work, the company said in a press release on Tuesday.
More than 770 volunteers mobilized clean-ups at 48 local sites on Saturdays throughout April and May. Clean-up sites were located in California, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington.
“As part of our company’s values, we strive to be good environmental stewards,” said Chairman Jim Perdue. “We recognize that being a leader in stewardship is not only good for the environment and our company, but it is good for the communities where our associates live and work. We’re proud of our associates’ participation and what is says about our culture and commitment to environmental stewardship.”
Project Clean Stream was launched in 2004 by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland as a grass-roots effort to clean up waterways and shoreless in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Perdue joined the volunteer project in 2008. In 2011, Perdue expanded the Project Clean Stream concept across the company to encourage associates to organize similar clean-up efforts in their communities. Since 2008, more than 5,800 volunteers have removed in excess of 184 tons of trash from nearly 300 sites.
The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the company’s charitable giving arm, recently renewed its years-long support of the Alliance and Project Clean Stream with a $10,000 grant.
