THE GREATEST AMERICAN CLEANUP

Enhance your community’s beauty.

Transforming Public Places into Beautiful Spaces

Each spring, volunteer groups join hands to engage in the nation’s largest community improvement program. During this time, we coordinate hundreds of litter pickups, recycling drives, educational workshops, and a wide variety of beautification activities.

Currently, we're participating in Keep America Beautiful’s efforts to remove 25 billion pieces of litter from our parks, waterways, and public spaces by July 4, 2026 to celebrate our country’s 250th birthday. But that’s just part of the picture! Recycling activities, gardening projects, and tree plantings are all ways we’re making our state greener and more vibrant. Will you join us and help turn this vision into a reality?

Are you ready to get started?

This year’s events will take place from March 20 through June 21. Registration has now come to a close, and we will post a list of statewide locations and related details by mid-February. We look forward to having you as a volunteer!

Impact by the numbers

In 2025, 18,056 volunteers from 47 communities engaged in 1,182 events. Altogether, we cleaned 2,463 miles of streets, roadsides, and waterways and 1,925 acres of parks and other green spaces, collecting 508,958 pounds of litter. We recycled over 1.7 million pounds of materials, including over 321,696 pounds of hard-to-recycle materials, over 73,601 pounds of household hazardous waste, and over 316 tons of tires. We also planted 5,154 trees, flowers and shrubs.

Many thanks go out to the companies and organizations that make the Greatest American Cleanup possible.

Interested in additional volunteer opportunities in your neighborhood? Visit our affiliate page to find more ways you can participate locally.