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National CleanUp Day
TypeNational
CelebrationsVolunteer cleanup events
Date3rd Saturday in September
FrequencyAnnual
Started byBill Willoughby and Steve Jewett

National CleanUp Day is an annual event encouraging organized cleanup efforts, held on the third Saturday of September. The event, organized by non-profit organization Clean Trails, promotes individual and community volunteer activities to keep outdoor spaces clean and prevent plastic waste from entering the ocean. [1]

History

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The inaugural National CleanUp Day was held in 2017 and had more than 225,000 volunteers.[2] In 2018, the event had over 1,500,000 volunteers who collected 14 million pounds of waste. The 2018 event was held in conjunction with the inaugural World Cleanup Day.[3][4][5] Beginning the same year, the Arizona and Florida Departments of Transportation scheduled highway cleanup activities to occur on National CleanUp Day. [6][7][8]

The 2019 cleanup received nearly 2,000,000 volunteers and resulted in the collection of 18,000,000 pounds of waste.[9] The coinciding World Cleanup Day saw an estimated 20,000,000 volunteers in 170 countries.[10]

In April 2019, Earth Day partnered with National CleanUp Day and Keep America Beautiful for the inaugural Earth Day CleanUp, which had over 500,000 volunteers working to clean up trash and litter nationally.[11][12] Earth Day and presenting partners, World CleanUp Day, National CleanUp Day and Keep America Beautiful organized individual activities such as Plogging and the TrashTag Challenge.[13]

References

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  1. ^ "On National Cleanup Day, founders return to Mission Trails Regional Park". ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV. 2023-09-16. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
  2. ^ "Get out your trash bags: Saturday is National Cleanup Day". Spectrum News 1. September 21, 2021. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  3. ^ "National Cleanup Day: City of Amarillo joins volunteers in cleaning up North Heights". News Channel 10. September 15, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  4. ^ "Participate in National Cleanup Day through the Y". Circling the News. September 18, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  5. ^ "About Clean Trails - Past Results". cleantrails.org. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Adopt a Highway volunteers bag a win for Arizona on National CleanUp Day". Arizona Department of Transportation. October 5, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  7. ^ "Join National CleanUp Day!". Arizona Department of Transportation. August 11, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  8. ^ "Florida Department of Transportation". National CleanUp Day. n.d. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  9. ^ "National Clean-Up Day 2020: Be Part of The Solution, Not the Pollution". Plus Printers. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  10. ^ "Millions of people participate in World Cleanup Day and National Cleanup Day". earthday.org. 24 September 2019. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  11. ^ "We Only Have One Planet. Save It!". Girl Scouts. September 16, 2020. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  12. ^ "500,000 Volunteers Take Part in Earth Day 2019 Cleanup". earthday.org. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  13. ^ "The Great Global CleanUp - Earth Day 2020". Earth911.com. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
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