 As part of an initiative to clean up Floyd County the fiscal court will be seeking 6th to 12th grade students to participate in its Trash for Cash program before April 15th. Wednesday Mountain Top spoke with judge executive Robbie Williams and special projects director Missy Allen about how you can get involved. We're seeing a major uptick in littering illegal dumps and things of that nature. We think it's it's not because we haven't deployed the resources we've actually doubled our funding and our crews to get out here and pick the pick the trash up and try to eliminate these issues but I just think it's due to COVID we're just creating more trash overall we're seeing an increase of nearly 30% in our landfills so it's across the board we're just generating more trash so we feel that it's important for us to increase awareness and and in order to do that we need to be targeting our youth as well as our adults but more so the youth because they need to be brought up you know to realize that it's it's important for us to be good stewards of an environment in our community. With volunteers Floyd County Fiscal Court will pay groups $50 per mile to support team travel equipment programs and activities Allen says it's important to let kids know the importance of keeping your community clean. The impact is huge for tourism when you look at businesses coming into the community and I know Judge Williams can speak to this he's had people say that when they come in the first thing they notices the trash you know we don't want that to be the first thing people see we want people to see how beautiful our area is and we know that we live in a beautiful place and it can be so much more beautiful if we would just take care of it so that that's kind of you know the biggest thing you know and it's I think it's difficult for children you know when you you say you can do anything you want to do you can be who you want to be and that is very true but when you're all your sin is trash and litter everywhere I think it tends to be a little bit disconcerting and and a bit of a downer for lack of better way of saying it we are Pikeville Medical Center and we are an amazing place to work health care heroes of all types work here all who deserve great rewards so while our heroes are working hard to take care of our patients and visitors we are taking care of them with top-tier benefits higher pay rates and great sign-on bonuses so join our team today so what are you waiting for apply today incredible opportunities await at PMC jobs org while the goal of the initiative is to clean up Floyd County and bring awareness Williams says they hope residents see the problem and take part in the solution but at the end of the day the reason we're doing this is we want to get the trash picked up and we want to increase awareness going forward and we want folks to feel like they're invested in their community you know this isn't this isn't someone else's issue this is your issue as well it's at your front door let's all take stock and take pride in our community stand up and do what's right to sponsor or get involved you can call the Floyd County Fiscal Court at 606-886-9193 for mountaintop news I'm Joel Corgell