The Conservation Commission leads an exciting Earth Day event each year for Town residents and visitors to enjoy and participate in a day commemorating the original Earth Day in 1970. The Richmond celebration includes a Town-wide clean-up where residents and friends go out to clean-up Town roadways and other public or private community properties. Starting at determined location, participants sign up their planned clean-up locations, then pick-up large recyclable leaf bags, gloves, water and snacks before heading out to their destinations. Once individual labeled bags are filled with recyclable materials versus trash, the bags are left in strategic locations along Town roads for Town Department of Public Works (DPW) staff to pick up and take the materials to the Richmond Transfer Station.