Gloves, grabbers and garbage: P.E.I. roadside cleanup marks 53 years - BNN Bloomberg

CORNWALL, P.E.I. - When students arrived at Brenda Larsen’s grade six classroom at Eliot River Elementary earlier this month, they found yellow trash bags waiting on their desks and an unusual assignment: picking up garbage. The class took part in the P.E.I. Women’s Institute Roadside Cleanup, a provincewide campaign now in its 53rd year that brings Islanders of all ages into ditches, along roadsides and through their neighbourhoods each spring. “First, they were a little bit shocked,” Larsen said, adding the students soon became enthusiastic, with some asking for extra bags. “We advocate fo…