MARTINS FERRY — J.B. Green Team is hosting its annual community cleanup days in conjunction with Belmont County township trustees this spring.

Jefferson or Belmont County residents can participate in any scheduled cleanup event in either county Participation is not restricted to the township where an individual lives.

Items that are not accepted at the collection events are food waste, leaves/ trees, grass cuttings, construction/demolition debris, liquids of any kind, household batteries, household garbage, mattresses/box springs, electronics, paints, liquids and hazardous waste materials.

Call JBGT’s Belmont County office at 740-296-5376 or visit jbgreenteam.org for more information.

J.B. Green Team Belmont County Coordinator Mark McVey said the community cleanups are wonderful events that are crucial to keeping the local community clean.

“It gives the people in the community the opportunity to dispose of their spring cleaning products,” McVey said.

He added that each location will have a tire collection for the first time this year.

“It’s not completely new because a few locations had them last year, but I think the community cleanups that didn’t have them must’ve lobbied the board and now we are having them at every site,” McVey said.

He added that each vehicle that participates is allowed to dispose of 10 tires in hopes that people won’t dispose of the tires in a discrete location over a hill or various other sites.

“We’re trying to make Belmont County a cleaner place to live and a better place to raise your children,” he said.

Belmont County Commissioner and J.B. Green Team board member Jerry Echemann said that J.B. Green Team is an essential organization in both Belmont and Jefferson counties in addition to the community cleanup days.

“These community cleanup days are a valuable tool to help keep both Belmont and Jefferson counties as pristine as we possibly can,” Echemann said.

In addition to cleanup days, J.B. Green Team has partnered with several local school districts to recycle paper in the classroom.

McVey said he believes every school in Belmont County recycles paper with J.B. Green Team, and that all of the money made by recycling the paper from the schools goes back to the schools in hopes of encouraging the students and staff to recycle more.