National CleanUp Day

National CleanUp Day is held annually in the United States and globally on the third Saturday of September. In the United States, there are cleanups held in every State and Territory. It promotes country-scale organized and individual cleanup events and volunteering to keep the outdoors clean and prevent plastic from entering the ocean. National CleanUp Day is organized by Clean Trails, a nonprofit organization founded by Bill Willoughby and Steve Jewett.[1][2][3]

National CleanUp Day
Observed byNational CleanUp Day is observed globally.
CelebrationsVolunteer to cleanup the country. From Sea to Shining Sea.
Date3rd Saturday in September
FrequencyAnnual

History

The inaugural National CleanUp Day was held in 2017 and had more than 225,000 volunteers.[4] The 2018 event had over 1,500,000 volunteers, 14 million pounds of waste collected, and was held in conjunction with the inaugural World Cleanup Day.[5][6][7]

The 2019 cleanup received nearly two million volunteers and resulted in the collection of 18 million pounds of waste.[8] The U.S. event is coordinated with World Cleanup Day and saw a combined 20 million volunteers in 170 countries, which is the largest, single day global volunteer event.[9] Beginning in 2018, the U.S. Department of Transportation participated in cleanups on their local and interstate highway systems.[10][11][12]

In April 2019, Earth Day partnered with National CleanUp Day and Keep America Beautiful for the inaugural Earth Day CleanUp and had over 500,000 volunteers working to clean up trash and litter nationally.[13][14] Earth Day and presenting partners World CleanUp Day, National CleanUp Day and Keep America Beautiful organized individual activities like Plogging and the TrashTag Challenge.[15]

In 2020, National CleanUp Day introduced the Tailored CleanUp program for businesses and cities.[16] The program is available to any participating business, educational institution, land manager, government entity or nonprofit. The Tailored CleanUp page may be used for any cleanup activity on any date in the United States, Canada, India or China. The Join a CleanUp, cleanup mapping pages, and reporting pages may be used for any cleanup worldwide on any date.[17] National CleanUp Day pivoted in 2020 due to COVID-19 from large scale cleanups to individual cleanups. They had over 671,000 signups by individuals, municipalities, schools, and companies.[18][19][20]

References
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  4. "Get out your trash bags: Saturday is National Cleanup Day". Spectrum News 1. September 21, 2021. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  5. "National Cleanup Day: City of Amarillo joins volunteers in cleaning up North Heights". News Channel 10. September 15, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  6. "Participate in National Cleanup Day through the Y". Circling the News. September 18, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
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  10. "Adopt a Highway volunteers bag a win for Arizona on National CleanUp Day". Arizona Department of Transportation. October 5, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  11. "Join National CleanUp Day!". Arizona Department of Transportation. August 11, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  12. "Florida Department of Transportation". National CleanUp Day. n.d. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  13. "We Only Have One Planet. Save It!". Girl Scouts. September 16, 2020. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  14. "500,000 Volunteers Take Part in Earth Day 2019 Cleanup". earthday.org. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  15. "The Great Global CleanUp - Earth Day 2020". Earth911.com. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  16. "National CleanUp Day is September 17, 2022". Cleanup News. September 1, 2022. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  17. "National CleanUp Day Municipalities". nationalcleanupday.org. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  18. "National CleanUp Day Annual Report 2020". CleanUp News. December 14, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  19. "Caring for the Environment on National Cleanup Day". Her Next Chapter. 8 October 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  20. "Friday, September 11, 2020 National Clean-Up Day". Schule und Kita am Käferberg. September 11, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
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