Clean Torrington

On November 29th, 2024, 20 LBS of trash was cleaned in Phonhong, Laos.

ວັນທີ 29 ພະຈິກ 2024, ໄດ້ມີການອະນາໄມຂີ້ເຫຍື້ອ 9,7 ກິໂລກຣາມ ຢູ່ເມືອງໂພນໂຮງ, ປະເທດລາວ.

Maintaining Order of Torrington’s Habitat 🌳

Maintaining Order of Torrington’s Environment 🌳:

On November 17th, 2024, a cleanup was conducted by our youth members downtown. In total, 70 LBS of trash was collected (1420 LBS total since early May).

Participants 👥:

Jaden Rintharamy (Operation Coordinator & Cleanup Assistant)

Michael Duong (Site Scout & Cleanup Assistant)

Logan Miller (Safety Coordinator & Cleanup Assistant)

Maintaining Order of Torrington’s Environment 🌳:

On October 20th, 2024, a cleanups was conducted by our youth members on prospect street. In total, 60 LBS of trash was collected (1350 LBS total since early May).

Participants 👥:
Jaden Rintharamy (Operation Coordinator & Cleanup Assistant)
Jay Barrera (Site Scout & Cleanup Assistant)
Logan Miller (Safety Coordinator & Cleanup Assistant)

Maintaining Order of Torrington’s Environment 🌳:

On September 29 and October 6th, 2024, 2 cleanups were conducted by our youth members at Fuessenich Park and the Naugatuck Valley.

In total, 200 LBS of trash was collected (1290 LBS total since early May). 2 lost scooters were found in the Naugatuck and returned to children in the neighboring household.

Participants 👥:
Jaden Rintharamy (Operation Coordinator & Cleanup Assistant)
Jayden Lin (Disposal Coordinator & Cleanup Assistant)
Manav Patel (Safety Coordinator & Cleanup Assistant)
Jay Barrera (Site Scout & Cleanup Assistant)
Logan Miller (Site Scout & Cleanup Assistant)

Maintaining Order of Torrington’s Habitat 🌳:

On September 15th and 22nd, our team conducted a cleanup spanning from the Torrington Library all the way to the YMCA and in front of the town fire station.

In all, we collected 250 LBS of trash within the two operations. All of which was disposed of at authorized dump spots supplied by Torrington locals

Participants 👥:
Jaden Rintharamy (Operations Planner)
Manas Patel (Cleanup Assistant)
Jayden Lin (Site Director)
Alyssa Amato (Site Director)
Thomas Suchowolec (Cleanup Assistant)
Katherine Suchowolec (Cleanup Assistant)

Maintaining Order of Torrington’s Habitat 📰:

Over the past two weeks, we have gotten an overflowing amount of support from all of the Torrington community. Your kindness and support is what pushes us!

We have gotten donations from two outstanding citizens of Torrington, safety supplies that will help curb the hazards we face during our cleanups, and help us to access areas we could not access before.

So shoutouts to:

Anthony Paganini (2nd photo), owner of Pagani’s Detailing Services LLC (860-201-6195)

and Jill (3rd photo), who donated a whopping 1,000 pair of gloves!

Tomorrow morning we are having a cleanup at the overpass near Oliver Wolcott High, so expect to see these supplies in full force! Again, thank you to all the people who make up this community, as you push us to move forward!

If you would like to donate yourself, feel free to catch us as our cleanups or drop them off to Taste of Thailand and say it is for “jaden”.

- Jaden Rintharamy, Founder and President of Maintaining Order of Torrington’s Habitat

Maintaining Order of Torrington’s Environment 🌳:

On September 1st, 2024, 8 youth members of our organization cleaned 145 LBS of trash from the Walmart parking lot (660 LBS total since our organization’s founding).
They properly disposed of their trash at an authorized Big Lots dumpster, and left the place cleaner than before. They took proper precautions and used proper equipment.

Participants 👥:

Jay Barrera (Front Line Cleaner)
Thomas Suchowolec (Operation Inspector)
Jayden Lin (Team Coordinator)
Alyssa Amato (Media Reporter and Cleaner)
Katherine Suchowolec (Front Line Cleaner)
Kayla Kelley (Site Coordinator) — at Walmart Torrington.

Maintaining Order of Torrington’s Habitat 🌳:

On August 25, 2024, 3 youth members of our organization cleaned up 140 LBS of trash behind the wooden fences of the Target parking lot. (7 bags total, 515 LBS of trash collected total since our organization’s founding)

In all of our cleanups, this by far has to have been one of the worst places we have cleaned up, having dense litter and various bottles of alcohol. There was dense foliage everywhere, and despite the thick clothes, we were consistently being caught up in thorn bushes and had to watch out for shattered glass.

Despite this, our members pushed through and cleaned as much as they could. In addition to the trash, a broken fence door along with 2 miscellaneous planks of wood were found which we were unable to haul home with our equipment. In the end, we are satisfied to have cleaned up all we did.

We hauled our trash to a dumpster, proudly provided by our sponsor, Taste of Thailand (@ 19 McDermott Ave, Torrington CT 06790). Huge thanks to them for letting us dispose of all our trash since our second cleanup. Go check them out, they have decent Thai food and drinks! You’ll also be supporting us indirectly by going there, haha. ♻️

Participants:
Jaden Rintharamy
Jayden Lin
Thomas Suchowolec

Maintaining Order of Torrington’s Habitat 🌳:
On July 11th, 2024, 100 LBS of trash was cleaned from the Naugatuck River by 4 our youth members. (60 LBS displayed, 40 LBS not photographed). In total, we have collected 375 LBS of trash since the founding of our group.

We split into two groups who cleaned in 2 different sessions, one of 3 members (not photographed) and 1 of a single person. We worked our way from the Teen Center all the way to East Main.

Most notably, a single member cleaned 5 bags of trash alone after finding what seemed to be an encampment under a bridge. After the discovery, a vehicle was promptly called to haul the trash and alcohol cans, but the encampment was left untouched in case someone lived there.

Participants 👥:
Jaden Rintharamy
*(Not photographed, may update in the future):
Thomas Suchowolec
Katherine Suchowolec
Alyssa Amato

On July 14, 2024, 3 youth members of our organization cleaned up 2 shopping carts worth of trash from the outskirts of this town’s Target parking lot. This amounts to approximately 70 LBS of litter cleaned (225 LBS of trash picked up over our organization’s existence).

People involved:
Matthew Tsai
Thomas Suchowolec
Katherine Suchowolec