The Air Quality Partnership of Delaware is getting ready to recognize Air Quality Awareness Week
from April 30 to May 4.
During this time, the Partnership encourages everyone who lives and works in Delaware to practice clean commuting
and other good air quality practices such as bicycling, walking, taking transit, carpooling, telecommuting, etc. While
you're at it, why not commemorate your good deeds by snapping a selfie or having someone take a photo of you and
then post it to social media with the hash tag #TryItDayDE. That way, you can be entered into a drawing to win a $25
gift card. How easy is that?
Businesses can join in the air quality action too. RideShare Delaware and the AQP will award an Air Quality Awareness
2018 Champion. Employers or businesses can self-nominate their work site for the opportunity to be recognized
as the Air Quality Awareness 2018 Champion. All interested businesses must complete the attached AQA Criteria
Checklist and submit to general@ridesharedelaware.org by April 16, 2018. Don’t forget to post your selfies to social
media. Bonus points will be given to those employers whose employees log a clean commute in their RideShare Delaware
account.
To sign up for RideShare Delaware visit RideShareDelaware.org and select “Register My Commute” or download the
free RideShareDE app.
Join the AQP from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, April 20 at Rodney Square in Wilmington where the Partnership will
join the City of Wilmington, The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and others in the Wilmington Earth Day & Arbor
Day celebration. The AQP will be on hand with an activity table for children. Tropo, the Air Quality Partnership’s
loveable friend, will pay a visit to the event as well.
You can find other air quality tips such as trip chaining, the importance of not idling your vehicle's engine and other
information on the AQP's website at www.wilmapco.org/aqp. When you give clean commuting and other air quality
tips a try, even for just one day, you can help to lower air pollution in the First State. So give it a try. You might like it.
