Keurig Green Mountain employees celebrate 10th year of Vermont river cleanup
Keurig employees welcome Vermonters to join in first Community Cleanup Day on Winooski River
Keurig Green Mountain Inc. employees who are based in Vermont are participating in a week-long cleanup of the Winooski River in the company’s home state of Vermont to remove trash and debris from the waterway. As part of the 10th anniversary of this cleanup campaign, the Waterbury, Vt.-based company, in partnership with American Rivers, Friends of the Winooski and Friends of the Waterbury Reservoir, will host Aug. 9 the first Community Cleanup Day in the Winooski River Watershed for all Vermont residents.
The annual river cleanup is part of Keurig’s Community Action for Employees (CAFE) program, which allows full-time employees to spend up to 52 hours a year volunteering for nonprofits and local community-based organizations during normal work hours. Keurig employees have spent the last decade supporting local water stewardship efforts by cleaning pollution and trash out of the Winooski River, which is an important waterway to Vermont communities. Last year, employees spent 700 volunteer hours on the Winooski River collecting nearly 2.5 tons of trash and scrap metal and removing 370 tires.