Register Now For The Great American Cleanup of PA April 25 - May 9

Time to think about organizing your watershed, roadside, park or community cleanup to be part of the Great American Cleanup of PA, this year running from April 25 to May 9.

 

The primary organizers of the Cleanup are Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, and all its partners, and the departments of Environmental Protection and Transportation.

 

Registering your cleanup event has many benefits including access to free cleanup supplies, free trash disposal at participating waste facilities, training on how to run a cleanup event safely and much more.

 

In 2008 175,200 people took part in 4,801 cleanup projects across the state cleaning up 21,653 miles of roadways,10,822 acres of park land, collecting 10.5 million pounds of trash. They also planted 10,077 trees, flowers and bulbs. (Full report online)

 

The following is a list of organizations sponsoring the 2008 Great American Cleanup of PA:

AAA Mid-Atlantic, Audubon Pennsylvania, Best Buy, Cities: Allentown, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Departments of Conservation and Natural Resources, Education, Environmental Protection and Transportation, County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, GreenTreks Network, Home Depot, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Keep Lancaster Beautiful, Keep Philadelphia Beautiful, Keystone Sanitary Landfill, PA CleanWays, Pennsylvania Association of Convention & Visitors Bureaus, Pennsylvania Builders Association, Pennsylvania Downtown Center, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association, Pennsylvania Horticulture Society, Pennsylvania Host Municipal Inspectors, Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association, Pennsylvania Organization of Watersheds and Rivers, Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation, Pennsylvania Resources Council, Pennsylvania Beverage Association, Pennsylvania State Association of Borough Managers, Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, Pennsylvania Waste Industries Association, Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau, Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania, Schuylkill Keep It Pretty, Sierra Club of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association, The Steel Recycling Institute and Waste Management Inc.

 

Go to the Great American Cleanup of PA website for details.