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Sidney trash race collects tons of garbage

The Great Trash Race that was held in Sidney on May 4 was a couple of tons of success.

The participants collected 244 bags of trash, which equaled 4380 lbs. or 2.19 tons of trash. Keep Sidney Beautiful recycled a half ton of metal from the event. This is up nearly one ton from last year’s race which had a total of 1.46 tons.

The race is a part of Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Clean Up campaign. The goal of the race is to clean up litter in the community of Sidney and to educate the citizens of Sidney on reducing, reusing and recycling.

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