Notes from Chicago
How Picking Up Trash Became an Unexpected Community Movement with Penny Gibbons
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Penny Gibbons started Trash People in 2022 with eight people, a plastic bag, and a reply to a stranger on the Logan Square community Facebook page. What began as a personal search for community has grown into an unexpected grassroots movement, now spanning nine neighborhoods.
In this episode of Notes from Chicago, Penny talks about how a neighborhood cleanup became the "gateway drug" to…