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?
Ready to register for 2026?
This year’s events will take place from March 20 through June 21. When you sign up with KGBF, you will have the opportunity to utilize funding and supplies such as banners, trash bags, and reusable buckets. Planning resources and other promotional materials will also be made available to all registrants. (Looking to volunteer? Check back for a list of site locations in February.)
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.