What he believes was Philadelphia’s first 5K Earth Day Trash Walk came to Terrill Haigler in a moment of morning inspiration.,” thought about how he could combine trash pickup, helping the homeless, and a bit of fitness. Coinciding with Earth Day weekend, the event hopefully would bring volunteers from across the city to walk through Kensington, a Philly neighborhood beset with drug and homelessness issues, and clean up while basking in the sun.
“It just all kind of came together in one gumbo pot of community advancement, I guess you could say.” As part of the event, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society had pledged to plant a tree in a Black or brown community in Philadelphia over the next five years for every bag of trash collected. Haigler was “ecstatic” to be able to tell the society that more than 500 trees would be planted.
The Saturday morning jaunt is the latest in Haigler’s constant push to raise awareness of what sanitation workers do to try to keep Philly streets clean and to help his city in creative ways. Soon, Haigler turned from spreading awareness to community activism, holding a food drive for frontline workers who worked amid surging COVID cases and raising $32,000 for PPE for his fellow sanitation workers. In February 2021, Haigler stepped down from his job as a sanitation worker and dedicated himself full-time to community advancement.
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