Last November, United By Blue headed west, to the small community of Hegins, PA for a cleanup of an illegal dump site. We were blown away by this cleanup for several reasons: first, the site contained 125 tons of trash; next, our volunteers removed 938 tires in 5 hours; and most importantly, the community volunteers who came out were some of the most amazing and hard-working volunteers we’ve ever encountered.

In early 2012, Sperry Top-Sider arrived in the Big Apple and its newest store can be found at 103 Fifth Avenue (between 17th and 18th Sts). In honor of their March housewarming party, Sperry Top-Sider and United By Blue hosted a cleanup of Canarsie Pier Beach in Brooklyn.

Delta, PA used to be a thriving mercantile center and a major stop on the Maryland-Pennsylvania Railroad. Nowadays, the only visitors to the railroad tracks that run along Scott Creek are illegal dumpers.  Due to the high volume of dumping, the township has closed Bunker Hill Road and residents have given it the nickname of "dump road". 

In the rural farm town of Hegins, about an hour northeast of our state capital, you would expect to find a thicket of trees, a calming meadow or family of squirrels alongside Deep Creek, not an estimated 125 tons of trash. Since this site was so large, we decided to tackle the trash in stages, starting with the obscene amount of tires at the site.