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SOUTH PORTLAND — Dozens of people toting garbage and recycling bags fanned out across South Portland on Saturday to extract a year’s worth of trash from the landscape as part of South Portland Land Trust’s Earth Day Cleanup. The annual event is one of the region’s largest and oldest delittering efforts centered on Earth Day, an international celebration of environmental protection marking its 48th anniversary on Sunday.