{"id":788944,"date":"2026-05-11T14:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788944\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:51:14","slug":"watch-100-volunteers-clear-trash-off-lincoln-drive-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788944\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch 100+ volunteers clear trash off Lincoln Drive in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByMatteo Iadonisi<\/p>\n<p>Monday, May 11, 2026 2:42PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Watch 100+ volunteers clear trash off Lincoln Drive in Philadelphia\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania &#8212; It was a rare sight in Philadelphia as Lincoln Drive closed to vehicles and opened to volunteers for an hours-long clean-up campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The spring cleaning event was just one of many held by Friends of the Wissahickon, an organization that has cared for Wissahickon Valley Park for over 100 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Participants pulled car bumpers, tire rims, soda cans, and even electronics out of the streets and vegetation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Litter that collects on this winding road can end up in an important source of drinking water in Philadelphia: the Wissahickon Watershed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Organizers hope that drivers take notice of their hard work and think twice about littering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone interested in getting involved with the Friends of the Wissahickon can <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/fow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">visit their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByMatteo Iadonisi Monday, May 11, 2026 2:42PM PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania &#8212; It was a rare sight in Philadelphia as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":788945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,8090,746,294197,195120,44965,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-788944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cleanup","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-friends-of-the-wissahickon","12":"tag-lincoln-drive","13":"tag-littering","14":"tag-pa","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-philadelphia","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116556509181782444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}