The following are lists of some of the litter cleanup, and reuse, reduce and recycle ideas sent in
Great American Cleanup™ Wrap-Up Reports to Keep America Beautiful by participating organizations. Please note that the o rganizations’ names are included to help Great American
Cleanup participants with “information-sharing”
STATE
AL
CITY
Athens
AR
CA
CAN
CO
Birmingham
Gadsden
Mobile
Conway
Little Rock
Camden
Bodfish
Downey
Huntington Beach
Lathrop
McFarland
Redwood City
Thousand Oaks
Winnipeg
Colorado Springs
ORGANIZATION
Athens Limestone Clean
Community
Keep Birmingham Beautiful
Commission
Keep Etowah Beautiful
Keep Mobile Beautiful
Keep Faulkner County Beautiful
Keep Arkansas Beautiful
Community Appearance Committee
Rare & Endangered Acoustic Music
Keep Downey Beautiful
City of Huntington Beach
City of Lathrop Beautification
Volunteers
McFarland FFA
Greg’s VW Service
Santa Monica Mountains National
Recreation Area
Take Pride Winnipeg, Inc.
Keep Colorado Springs Beautiful
IDEAS FOR SHARING

"Cash for Trash" most trash & most recyclables received $100 prizes
 “Trash for Cash” $500, 300,200 cash prizes to groups
 “Message in a Bottle”

The Mercy Ship crew with people from around the world volunteered their time while ship was docked

Trail riding cleanup on horseback with pack mules

Geocaching, a sport that uses GPS to find hidden treasures, is becoming a popular in the state of
Arkansas. This years event coincided with International Cache in, trash out day. 35 Ceocachers volunteered and cleaned up a park in Faulkner County
 “Kidz Can Help”-cleanup program organized by a nine year-old

Prize bottles on roadside throughout the City
 1800’s re-enactment announcing cleanup

Volunteers removed overgrown grass that covered headstones in
City cemetery

Clean Beach Program-nonprofits clean a beach once/wk for 5 months —award $750 each

Wooden Post Project-staples, nails, posters removed from public poststhen repainted

City-wide cleanup w/lunch and canned food drive-500 cans collected

East Egg Hunt/Cleanup

Competitive contest for most unusual item, largest, heaviest and most tennis balls recovered
 “May I Help?”

Homeless camp cleanup

STATE
CT
FL
CITY
Portland
Stamford
Bartow
Bradenton
Clearwater
Crawfordville
Daytona Beach
Deland
Eustis
Fort Myers
Gainesville
ORGANIZATION
Zion Lutheran Church
Keep Stamford Beautiful
Keep Polk County Beautiful
Keep Manatee Beautiful
Keep Pinellas Beautiful
Keep Wakulla County Beautiful
Keep Daytona Beach Beautiful
Volusia County Environmental
Management
City of Eustic
Keep Lee County Beautiful
Keep Alachua County Beautiful
IDEAS FOR SHARING

Earth Day station setupindoor/outdoor plantings

City park restoration

"PTA Challenge" project for schools. Winner received $500.
 “Get Your Palms Dirty” was cleanup at churches on Sat. before
Palm Sunday

Compost Bin Sale – sold compost bins at a discounted rate, kitchen scrap pails and compost turners

Teamup with Sheriff’s office to kickoff “face lift of dense rental community

Waterway cleanup started by a concerned citizen contacting KPB
& telling them about 5 teenagers who had been cleaning up the area.

Neighborhood Watch captains & each sheriff’s dept reinvigorated programs using cleanup/BBQ events

Created a mosaic mural on highway walls to calm speeding traffic

Wild Bird Exhibit at Awards
Ceremony

State manatee prot.video taped @ event – re:monofilament recycling

Cleanup of aquatic trash and grasses at Lake Gracie.
Underwater areas exposed due to drought
 “Trees for Trash free plant for bagging trash
 “Cool Schools - Campus Cleanup” students analyzed litter on school grounds and formulated a Litter
Reduction Plan.

Donated news ad listing groups/people who volunteer;
Treasure in the Trash

Two Liberty Gardens dedicated on
May 31 (the same day as the last piece of rubble was removed from
Ground Zero)

Contest where students from K-12 grade school created a children’s book about litter, clean-ups, graffiti, etc…

STATE
GA
CITY
Green Cove
Spring
Key West
Milton
Naples
North Miami
Orlando
Perry
Port Charlotte
Port St.Lucie
Sarasota
Tallahassee
Tampa
Vero Beach
Winter Haven
Winter Park
Albany
Americus
Athens
ORGANIZATION
Keep Clay Beautiful
Clean Florida Keys, Inc.
Santa Rosa Clean Comm.System
Keep Collier Beautiful
Keep North Miami Beautiful
Keep Orlando Beautiful
Keep Taylor County Beautiful
Keep Charlotte Beautiful
Keep Port St.Lucie Beautiful
Keep Sarasota County Beautiful
Keep Tallahassee-Leon County
Beautiful
Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful
Keep Indian River Beautiful
Keep Winter Haven Clean and
Beautiful
Keep Winter Park Beautiful
Keep Albany-Dougherty Beautiful
Keep Sumter Beautiful
Keep Athens-Clarke County
Beautiful
IDEAS FOR SHARING
 “No If, Ands, or Butts” anti-tobacco teen campaign
 “Green Machine Contest”

FL Keys Scenic Hwy.
Proj.&Overseas Heritage Tri.

Saturday neighborhood cleanups
 “Bike Fest” eco. Lecture
 “RECYCLO” recycling superhero appearance

Schools participate on poster/slogan contests, which become “theme” of the year
 “Dunk The Junk”-5,000 school kids collect litter & dunk in superbaskets

Scrubbed old tombstones in historic cemetery
 “Taylor County Shines Day” outfits
& jewelry made out of recycled materials w/fashion show
 “EnviroFashion Extravaganza” - had volunteers design outfits out of recycled materials; they were then modeled by VIPS and then auctioned as a fundraiser

Volunteers visited schools, performing miniature cleanups & gave goodie bags to student participants

Cigarette butt weighing contest:
15lbs 1st pl; 7.5 lbs 2nd; 6lbs 3 rd
 “Woodsy Owl” school event

3 rd Annual Recy.Regatta-used recycled items to construct boat/craft
 “GAC Challenge”

Not cleaning up graffiti, but getting to the graffiti to clean it up on overpasses and cliffs
 “City For Sale” garage sale
 Planted “Trees for Courage” a 6 mile living memorial to the
Americans who died in the Iraq
War

Elected officials and local government department heads delitter downtown the day before the communitywide event… to set the example. Covered by two tv stations

Nine school litter cleanups
 “Hands on Athens” historical house repair and landscape

STATE CITY
Bainbridge
Brunswick
Cartersville
Cobb
Columbus
Conyers
Cordele
Covington
Cumming
Dallas
Dalton
Danielsville
Gainesville
Gray
LaGrange
Lawrenceville
Macon
Marietta
Marietta
ORGANIZATION
Keep Bainbridge-Decatur County
Beautiful
Keep Brunswick Golden Isles
Beautiful
Keep Bartow Beautiful
Keep Cobb Beautiful
Keep Columbus Beautification
Commission
Keep Conyers-Rockdale Beautiful
Keep Crisp Beautiful
Keep Covington/Newton Beautiful
Keep Forsyth County Beautiful
Keep Paulding Beautiful
Keep Dalton/Whitfield Beautiful
Keep Madison County Beautiful
Keep Hall Beautiful
Keep Jones Beautiful
Keep Troup Beautiful
Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful
Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful
Commission
Keep Cobb Beautiful
Keep Marietta Beautiful
IDEAS FOR SHARING
 “Free Trash Pick-Up Day”
 Performance of “The Wartsville
Wizard” book turned to play to student who won scholarship
 Recycled “Trash Art” Contest

Cleanup videoed and produced into a 3.5 minute promo for following year

Liberty Gardens designed for low water requirements

Opening season baseball game w/”Little Blue Bin Ambassadors” – third grade collected all the litter

Volunteer appreciation event taped and aired on public access channel
 Victim’s Memorial” dedication wall built w/prison labor

Miniature clothes lines with T-shirt shaped notices promoting clothes collection
 The “Detective Seymore Green” puppet shows.

Vehicle Litter Incident Reports

Held a recycling invention contest - where contestants created inventions out of recyclable items, that were displayed at Earth Expo
& Earth Fest

Constructed fish habitats in Lake
Allatoona out of recycled Christmas trees

Earth Day Grocery bag project: decorated bags w/environmental messages

Recycled Robot Contest - built robots from recycled items

Teenagers secured corporate sponsors for their school trip, receiving 25 cents/pound for trash collected

A Hometown Hero Recognition
Program

GAC Display Booth
 “GAC Awareness” ribbons made and distributed
 “Delitter Contest” done in the after school play

Graffiti cover on a private property

Litter free concern w/recycling

STATE
HI
IL
IN
KS
KY
CITY
Monroe
Rome
Roswell
Smyrna
Stattesboro
Toccoa
Warner Robbins
Watkinsville
Wai’anae
Chicago
Wheaton
Elkhart
Evansville
Hammond
Fort Wayne
Kansas City
Lexington
Lexington
ORGANIZATION
Keep Walton Beautiful
Keep Rome/Floyd Beautiful
Keep Roswell Beautiful
Keep Smyrna Beautiful
Keep Bulloch Beautiful
Keep Toccoa-Stephens County
Beautiful
Keep Warner Robins Beautiful
Oconee County Clean and
Beautiful Commission
Nani O’waianae KAB Program
Keep Chicago Beautiful
DuPage Clean and Beautiful
Elkhart EnviroCorps
Operation City Beautiful
Keep Hammond Beautiful
City of Fort Wayne Solid Waste
Department
Operation Brightside
Joyland Neighborhood Association
Tates Creek Campus PTA
IDEAS FOR SHARING
 The “Roadside Jingle” contest
 “Water Gypsy Fortune Teller” told
“fortunes” about taking care of water & pointed out misuse

Tray liners and placements with
National Sponsor logos were used by local restaurants to advertise the
GAC

T-Shirts, fliers, news ads, Hispanic radio spots

Painted a chain link fence by talking rollers off handles and using them in hands

Most Unusual Trash Pickup
 “Free Landfill Day”
 Convention and Visitors’ Bureau landscape project for caboose exhibit

Personal delivery of seedlings to local businesses
 “Tire & Battery Roundup” $250 cash prize for “most”

Earth Day Parks Cleanup, Fair and
Celebration

Recycling presentation given to
Boy Scout Troop who planted garden plot and monitored progress

30-foot mural designed by students painted onto a fence at a nursing home

Taught youth how to safely & effectively eradicate non-native invasive species
 “March For A Clean City by 375 second graders

Recycled clothing fashion showproceeds to a homeless shelter

Canoe river cleanup

Recycled latex paint program- reuses gallons of latex paint, paint is used for graffiti clean-up & house painting
 “Reforest The Bluegrass,” created stonewall to line creek

Use event to fill community service requirement for high school students

MA
STATE
LA
CITY
Baton Rouge
MI
MO
MS
MT
Laplace
Leesville
Natchitoches
St. Rose
Shreveport
West Monroe
Chelsea
Lowell
Webster
Detroit
Kansas City
Brookhaven
Corinth
Jackson
Tupelo
Billings
ORGANIZATION
Keep Baton Rouge Beautiful
Keep St.John Beautiful
Keep Leesville Beautiful
Keep Natchitoches Beautiful
Swamp Eyes
Shreveport Green
Keep West Monroe Beautiful
Keep Chelsea Beautiful
Keep Lowell Beautiful
Webster Recycling Commission
Keep It Moving, Inc.
Keep Kansas City Beautiful
Keep Lincoln County Beautiful
Keep Corinth Beautiful
Keep Mississippi Beautiful/Pal
Keep Tupelo Beautiful
Bright N’Beautiful
IDEAS FOR SHARING

Graffiti removal partnership w/LSU’s campus; school poster contest and display at local observatory

H.S.students & teachers teamed up for litter pickups

Cash prizes for most trash collected

Trash Bash mascot with costume designed in the shape of a “cartoon dumpster”

Mr. Can Man at local schools to encourage recycling

Environmental education site located in a swamp

Matching homeless plants with schools
 St. Patrick’s Day cleanup-pres & board dressed as leprechauns handing out gold pieces as prizes

Use of EMR truck as cmnd.ctr. & radio comm. with sites

One of KCB affiliates conducted an after school parade of 25 Fifth graders. They marched to City Hall and performed plays about trees

Cleanup of unused portion of railroad tracks

Local sponsor sign-up & donation prizes for volunteers

Distribution of free Junk Mail
Reduction Kits sponsored by MA
State grant

A Youth Workshop where students participated through songs poems, questions and answers
 “Fishing For Trash fish pieces out of pool and read facts about trash
 “Gold in the Litter” “Golden Eggs” were hidden in Lincoln County during GAC; eggs were turned in for prizes
 “Riches in the Ditches” Contest
 The “Majesty of Mississippi” campaign to cleanup and plant yellow and red flowers (Spain’s
Flag)

Scrap metal company crushed a car for each bag of litter brought in

Half-hour video; wheel barrow race
Billings/Yellowstone County

STATE
NC
CITY
Jacksonville
Marion
NE Alliance
Beatrice
Chadron
Columbus
Lexington
Lincoln
Norfolk
North Platte
Plainview
Schuyler
Scottsbluff
ORGANIZATION
Keep Onslow Beautiful
Keep McDowell Beautiful
Keep Alliance Beautiful
Keep Beatrice Beautiful
Keep Chadron Beautiful
Keep Columbus Beautiful
Keep Lexington Beautiful
Keep Nebraska Beautiful
Keep Norfolk Beautiful
Keep N.Platte/Lincoln Beautiful
Keep N.East Nebraska Beautiful
Keep Schuyler Beautiful
Keep Scottsbluff-Gering Beautiful
IDEAS FOR SHARING

Trash Fishing Tournament

Old abandoned cemetery restoration project

Student sign-up and pledge to care for the environment

Long-time volunteer was honored by street cleanup of his neighborhood
 “April Showers” washing four historic buildings and 16 others
 “Bridging the Gap” youth groups assist the elderly and disabled with cleaning their yards
 “Great American Trash Trek for
Litter” K-5 students & parents picked up litter.Got seeds/stickers
 “Mayor for a Day” students cleaned up an area and each school selected one student to be “Mayor for a Day”

Poster and Litter Critter Contest w/life size model unveiled as mascot
 “Environmental Jeopardy” radio contest w/KLIR 101.FM

8 th graders applied storm drain markers that read “No Dumping” in
English & Spanish

Delivered invites stapled to trash bag to each NE Senator
 “Litter Patrol” w/police dept.

Created a flower bed shaped like
Snoopy so it was more fun for the kids - next year they’ll do
Woodstock
 “Kick Butts” - students were given
45 min to collect butts, then form a billboard in a busy area to educate the community

Kids 3-6 grade story/poem contest

Earth Day Bouquets;Wine
Tasting;Silent Auction raised
$3,000+

Litter bags handed out at local bank drive thrum’s with litter laws printed on them in English &
Spanish

Pre-school GAC puppet show

STATE
NM
NV
NY
OH
CITY
Alamogordo
Albuquerque
Carlsbad
Clovis
Los Lunas
Rio Rancho
Boulder City
Buffalo
Glen Cove
Islip
New City
Akron
Berlin Center
ORGANIZATION
Keep Alamogordo Beautiful
Keep Albuquerque Beautiful
Keep Carlsbad Beautiful
Keep Clovis Beautiful
Tierra Bonita of Valencia County
Keep Rio Rancho Beautiful
Lake Mead National Recreation
Area
Keep Western NY Beautiful
Glen Cove Beautification
Commission
Keep Islip Clean
Keep Rockland Beautiful
Keep Akron Beautiful
Keep Lake Milton Beautiful
IDEAS FOR SHARING
 “Dream Clean 66 Miles of Highway”

Planting of low water maintenance garden in front of City Hall
 “Caught Red-Handed” program recognized residents who cleaned up or beautified their community they received a tshirt that says “I was caught keeping Alamogordo
Beautiful”
 “Slam Dunk” your recycling-free admission to basketball game for three locally recyclable items

We sponsored a citywide high school video production contest which was designed to raise awareness about litter and illegal dumping, and also to encourage young people to pick up after themselves
 “Traveling Dumpster” - children put their “painted” handprints on a dumpster and picked up trash

Once again, we have the Golden
Dumpster Award for the most trash collected by an organization. Several business owners also donated cash, which went to the winner

Elementary school litter challengemost bags and most participants

Garden Tool Recycle Program
 “Dresses for Divas” Collecting business dresses, suits & cocktail dresses to distribute to women in a
Safe Nest Shelter
 “In your Easter Bonnet” Clothing
Drive for women in need

Fourth grade cleanup message with performed skit
 Introduction of the “New Recycle
Man” mascot

Tie-dye T-shorts for $5 or for free if you bring in a shirt to recycle
 “Artful Receptacles” - artists decorated 55 gallon steel drum trash barrels; the barrels were placed around town

Dreamscape Raffle - a giveaway of a $10,000 from yard makeover, which brought in $20,000

Wetland handicapped accessible nature path

STATE CITY
Chillicothe
Cincinnati
Delaware
Elyria
Huron
Lakewood
Mentor
Middletown
Moraine
Newark
Perrysburg
Sandusky
Toledo
Warren
ORGANIZATION
Hopewell Culture National
Historical Park
Keep Cincinnati Beautiful
Keep Delaware County Beautiful
Lorain County Beautiful
Erie County Recycling & Litter
Prevention
Keep Lakewood Beautiful
Keep Mentor Beautiful
Keep Middletown Beautiful
Montgomery County Solid Waste
District
City of Newark
Keep Perrysburg Beautiful
Erie/Huron GAC
Keep Toledo/Lucas County
Beautiful
Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste
Management
IDEAS FOR SHARING

We combined a bird cultural tour of the park

Rumpke Cleanup Contest w/WKRC-TV; cleanup photo featured during weather

Zoo Unto Others —an elephant helps to pick up trash around the zoo

Sixmile “Walking River Sweep”

Firemen & volunteers teamed up to clean park

Our mascot, lucky the Ladybug appeared at the Sandusky
Clean-up & Arbor Day celebration and Vermilion Pride
Day and mingled w/the volunteers
 “Earth Day in Lakewood” celebration which included environmental activities and games. Green Elvis kicked off the event with an Earth Day tree planting and sing along
 “Mentor Safety Village” tour for third graders w/packets including
GAC info

Having volunteers sign pledge card for at least one hour of cleanup

Poetry Contest - students submitted poetry concerning litter, entries judged & compiled into a booklet which was distributed locally

Commuter Appreciation Day

Woodland Nature Preserve Design by 4 th -6 th graders who cleared neglected parkland and replanted it

Recycling/Litter Prevention for mini grants from Solid Waste
District.Erie County offered for appliance/tire recycling events

Local TV station sponsored GAC and Clothing Drive w/live broadcast during Sunday AM show
 “The Magic of Recycling” show for kinds w/a recycled plastic park bench for schools
 “Lens on Litter” - Scout troops photographed littered areas and submitted their “project”. They then adopted the area and cleaned it.

STATE
OK
PA
PR
SC
CITY
Ardmore
Oklahoma City
Guymon
Reading
San Juan
Charleston
Columbia
Florence
Georgetown
ORGANIZATION
Ardmore Beautification Council
Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc.
Area Prevention Resource Center
Reading Beautification
Conserva el Encanto
Charleston & N. Charleston
Keep South Carolina
Beautiful/Palmetto Pride
Keep Florence Beautiful
Keep Georgetown Beautiful
IDEAS FOR SHARING

Brooms donated for a Main St. curb-front sweep

Area schools locker cleanout

Elementary students put gravel designs in wet concrete to be used as stepping stones @ school - teaches them to use recycled items
(they used pizza boxes for a form)

As a kick-off event to LitterBlitz the board of OKC Beautiful challenges the Mayor and OKC
City Council to a trash pickup competition

Most of our activities are a form of Service-Learning. Students service to the community was thoughtfully connected to lessons in class. For example: Advanced
Art students directed younger students in how to paint in the park - in the classroom they studied mentoring the effects of weather on paint, leadership skills etc.

Local Mascots encouraging volunteers

Turning the PR Jazz Festival into an eco-event and environmental education campout

Neighborhood cleanup involving the Citadel Cadets

Zero tolerance for Litter Weekend –
Dept. of Natural Resources offices, sheriffs, hwy patrolmen enforced litter laws and educated the public

Contractor hired to collect and recycle household hazardous waste during event
 “One yard at a time" program. We challenged residents of
Georgetown to pledge to clean up in front of their own home each
Saturday in April. Pledge card displays were placed in businesses all over the city. Residents signed a pledge card and were entered in a drawing for a gift certificate from
Home Depot. We encouraged residents to take pride in the appearance of Georgetown and to encourage their neighbors to do the same

STATE CITY
N. Myrtle Beach
St. George
TN
Sumter
Athens
Cleveland
Columbia
Fayetteville
Franklin
Gallatin
Greeneville
Harriman
Jackson
Knoxville
Manchester
ORGANIZATION
N. Myrtle Beach Clean City
Community
KAB of Dorchester County
Sumter County Keep America
Beautiful
Keep McMinn Beautiful
Cleveland/Bradley KAB System
Keep Maury Beautiful
C.L.E.A.N. Fayetteville/Lincoln
County
Keep Williamson Beautiful
Keep Gallatin Beautiful
Keep Greene Clean
Keep Roane Beautiful
Jackson City Beautiful
Keep Knoxville Beautiful
Keep Coffee County Beautiful
IDEAS FOR SHARING
 The “Spring Creek Sweep” donation of kayaks for use in hard to reach areas

Planting of a Liberty Vegetable
Garden-food given to a homeless shelter

Full body apron designed as highway w/litter on it, used in school presentations
 “Electronic Recycling Campaign”unwanted electronic restored or recycled

Pole Patrol – utility co. helped remove illegal signs from poles
 “Dump & Run” college students recycled dorm furnishings & other reusable items during “moving” days

Adult Basic Education Essay
Contest - Each year students are encouraged to creatively consider how to better our area. Cash prizes are awarded to winners. [Gets a population who might not otherwise think about bettering our environment to do so]
 “Treasure In The Trash” litter pickup

Girl Scouts walked around parade route with bags asking people to dispose of their litter
 “Cash for Trash”

Composting Classes-Family Fun
Day

Leaf compost sold as a fundraiser.
63 truckloads of black gold sold or a total of $630 for KGB

Flower baskets on all 47 lamp posts in Downtown Gallatin
 “Roll Up Your Sleeves Campaign”

Cleanup events w/outdoor environmental presentations

Parks & Recreation Dept. Event
 “Trash Wars: The Litter Menace-
Episode On e” A series of events for high schoolers
 “Greek Challenge” - had college students do cleanups

Plant-The-Town-Red during
April/May-plant a red-blooming flower

STATE CITY
Memphis
Nashville
TX Austin
Austin
Bryan
Coleman
Coppel
Denton
Dickinson
Fort Worth
Katy
Kaufman
Carrollton
Houston
McAllen
Navasota
Odessa
Pearland
ORGANIZATION
Memphis City Beautification
Commission
Metro Beautification &
Environmental Commission
Keep Texas Beautiful
Keep Austin Beautiful
Brazos Beautiful
Keep Coleman Beautiful
Keep Coppell Beautiful
Keep Denton Beautiful
Keep Dickinson Beautiful
Keep Forth Worth Beautiful
Keep Katy Beautiful
City of Kaufman
BSA Troop 1202
Keep Houston Beautiful
Keep McAllen Beautiful
Keep Navasota Beautiful
Keep Odessa Beautiful
Keep Pearland Beautiful
IDEAS FOR SHARING

Special Arts Projects“Plant The
Town Red”
 “Ring Around The School”- 11,000 students,700 teachers make a ring and cleanup for the day

PowerPoint show for 1200 volunteers;GAC training book;
World’s largest trash bag w/7-11
Corporation

Helping to organize The Citadel
Group to clean store parking lot in return for drinks/muffins
 “Recycled Resources Art Day” using found materials to create artwork

Painting old building in downtown area and adding a
“Welcome”

Creation of "Water Conservation
Display & Exhibit"

Mural painting on a very unsightly retaining wall

A large mockup show runoff effects on homes and businesses

Advertising GAC program on
City’s intranet site with all the information

First event on new bricked downtown historical plaza

Cleaning & landscaping property that had a building removed
 Marked storm drains with “Don’t
Dump” markers
 “Sign Buster—Removal of bandit
(litter on a stick) sign coordinated with City Council
Office and Sign Administration
Department

We devised a relay race that was fun and entertaining for kids…”The Recycling Survivor
Challen ge”
 “Litter Loot Hunt”

Scavenger Hunt at six cleanup locations.6 cans with prize value of $50
 “Business After Hours” GAC
Kick-Off w/environmental games

STATE
USVI
VA
WA
WI
WV
WY
CITY
Plano
Port Aransas
Richland Hills
Rockport
Southlake
Sugar Land
Tyler
Willis
Cruz Bay
Hampton
Lebanon
Norfolk
Lake Ridge
Oak Harbor
Milwaukee
West Bend
Philippi
ORGANIZATION
Keep Plano
Keep Port Aransas Beautiful
Keep Richland Beautiful
Keep Aransas County Beautiful
Keep Southlake Beautiful
Keep Sugar Land Beautiful
Keep Tyler Beautiful
Keep Willis Beautiful
St. John V.I. National Park
Hampton Clean City Commission
Russell County Environmental
Council
Norfolk Environment Commission
Prince William Clean Community
Navy Whidbey Recycle NAS
Whidbey Island
Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful
West Bend Beautification
Commission
Philippi Main Street
Yellowstone National Park
IDEAS FOR SHARING

Donated WW painted-like mascot driven around as educational tool

Earth Day City-wide cleanup

School group made Iron Eyes
Cody hand-held masks for City
Council presentation event

Garden tour and plant exchange w/extra plants going to local charity

GAC combined with distribution of “A Touch of Nature” Arbor
Day celebration
 Neighborhood Day “Hearts and
Hammers” elderly home repair in historic Hispanic mission

Contracted w/mental health agency for paid litter pickups

Couch Campaign – paid people
$10 for every old couch they turned in

Involvement of all four schools in household recycling program
 “Tour de Trash” (tour of solid waste facilities used by the City)
 “Trash Cart To Art” creating artwork from trash judged by the community
 “Norfolk Shines” volunteer recruitment drive
 “Tee-Off Against Litter” Golf
Tournament
 “Dumpster Dive” event - teams dressed in costumes & separated out recyclables from dumpsters.
Competed for prizes - based on most creative, enthusiastic and grossed out
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Scuba Shop partnership, divers & marina
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City-wide cleanup with cooperation of city and local sanitation departments, parks department and local grocery story
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Contest to find the most unusual piece of trash
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Using native seed to revegetate disturbed hilly plan areas around the school. Students were instructed on the process

In 2001, Keep America Beautiful issued a national call to action for teens to go above, beyond and extreme ---by doing something big in the way of an event to improve their small corner of the world during the Great American Cleanu p™. As you know, teens love extremes---extreme sports, extreme competition, extreme events, extreme music. The Extreme Clean events motivate teens to get involved, have fun and show the world that they will “go to extremes” to make a positive difference in their communities.
Participating organizations have the opportunity to produce these specific events and make them extreme… make them fun, competitive, musical, festive, etc., with rewards at the end as a thank you (incentive) to the participating teens.
These are some of the Extreme Clean events that occurred during the 2001 Great American
Cleanup™:
RAPPELLING SINKHOLE DIVE (Apopka Blue, FL) :
Professionally-trained cave divers went 60 feet deep into a cave system to clear out litter that was threatening the water quality
CYCLE, ROLL & SKATE (Washington, DC ):
Volunteers rolled their way through neighborhoods on inline skates & bicycles, picking up litter & beautifying parks
UNDERWATER SCUBA DIVING CLEANUPS (Tampa and Orlando area of Florida) :
Scuba divers in boats and jet skis, plunged the depths of the ocean floor & caves, cleaning up litter & improving water quality
POWERWASHING THE TOWN (Charleston, SC; Alliance, NE):
Volunteers gave their town the ultimate cleansing, blasting away grime on historic buildings & cobblestone streets
JET SKI COMPETITION (Lake Mead, NV):
Zipping across the water, volunteers cleaned hard-to-reach beaches & shorelines
WHITE RIVER DRAG & BAG (Indianapolis, IN):
Boaters, fire fighters & divers operated cranes & dragnets to haul large debris from 10 miles of water (illegally dumped cars, oil tanks, etc.)
GO FOR THE GOLD (Winter Haven, FL):
Volunteers raced to the task of recycling in an Olympic-themed educational event