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| Annual citywide scores since the survey's inception in 2003 |
Ever wonder how litter in your neighborhood compares to other neighborhoods in the City? Each year, with the help of volunteers from the Committee for a Clean and Beautiful Glendale, City staff take to the streets to assess litter throughout the City. The annual Litter Index Survey scores 24 areas throughout the City including freeways, industrial, residential and commercial neighborhoods, generating a significant amount of litter data.
Volunteers use a 4-point scoring system to grade the neighborhood routes they are driven to by staff. Each route has a series of stops where litter is assessed based on the grading scale as follows:
- No Litter
- Slightly Littered
- Littered
- Extremely Littered
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| Route 8 is one of 24 routes scored during the annual Liter Index. |
Yearly Improvement
This year the average citywide score improved from 1.52 in 2013 to 1.45 in 2014. The improvements can be an indicator that programs implemented to eliminate litter by raising awareness and civic participation in Glendale are on the right path.
Volunteers play an important role in the reduction of visible litter from the streets of Glendale. By participating in the city's Adopt-A-Block Program, volunteers spent over 5800 hours on community clean-up projects around their neighborhood resulting in cleaner, less littered neighborhoods.
For more information about the Litter Index Survey or to volunteer for the 2015 survey, please contact Sandra Rodriguez at (818) 937-8333.
Volunteers play an important role in the reduction of visible litter from the streets of Glendale. By participating in the city's Adopt-A-Block Program, volunteers spent over 5800 hours on community clean-up projects around their neighborhood resulting in cleaner, less littered neighborhoods.
For more information about the Litter Index Survey or to volunteer for the 2015 survey, please contact Sandra Rodriguez at (818) 937-8333.
