Libraries Coordinate Community Cleanup in Bihor County

On Saturday, September 25, libraries in Bihor County coordinated a volunteer effort of more than 150 people to take part in “Let’s Do it Romania,” a community cleanup effort. As part of “Let’s Do It Romania,” the volunteers – local students, library users, and librarians in seven communities – filled and removed more than 200 bags of garbage in the county. 

The necessity for the cleanup was grave, with one county library official noting “30 garbage bags, television sets, tires, and a car windshield” discarded on the edge of the woods near her town. As leaders within their communities, the libraries took an active role in the volunteer effort, securing contributions from local authorities and the sanitation service for tools, gloves, trash bags, and eventual pickup of the collected waste.