NIU students who are still psyched after Earth Day can help clean the campus and recycle trash Sunday.

The 1 p.m. campus cleanup, sponsored by the Student Association Campus Welfare Committee, is the school year’s second, Committee Adviser Morenike Cheatom said.

“People were just interested in it enough to do it again,” Cheatom said. She said this is the first school year the cleanup has been done twice.

Cheatom said the cleaners will meet in the King Memorial Commons and put most of their efforts toward cleaning around the East Lagoon area. “We’re picking up the garbage from Springfest on Saturday,” she said. The group also will clean any area that needs it, she said.

Amanda Rutter, assistant SA recycling director, said about 40 people helped out at last October’s cleanup. “We had some fraternities and quite a few (SA) senators come,” she said.

She said last semester’s cleanup lasted two hours. Cheatom said she estimates this cleanup will last two hours as well.

Cheatom said she will call service organizations and other groups to ask for help, but she welcomes any individuals willing to volunteer time.

SA Recycling Director Dave Broustis said the cleanup will involve groups of two who pick up the trash and separate the recyclable items from the non-recyclable items.

But the SA is not the only group joining in the effort. About 25 Neptune Hall residents, by suggestion of Hall Council President Marty Marks and Secretary Kathy Kennedy, will be cleaning at the lagoon.

Marks said the group is borrowing equipment from the Office of Campus Recreation to clear out floating debris from the lagoon.

The groups will probably work together well, Marks said.

“This is a good service project,” he said. The group’s cleanup is “to do something for Earth Day,” Marks said.