National CleanUp Day explained

Holiday Name:National CleanUp Day
Duration:1 day
Frequency:Annual
Observedby:National CleanUp Day is observed globally.
Date:3rd Saturday in September
Celebrations:Volunteer to cleanup the country. From Sea to Shining Sea.

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 encourages 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 non-profit organization founded by Bill Willoughby and Steve Jewett.[1]

History

The inaugural National CleanUp Day was held in 2017 and had more than 225,000 volunteers.[2] 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.[3] [4] [5]

The 2019 cleanup received nearly two million volunteers and resulted in the collection of 18 million pounds of waste.[6] 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.[7] Beginning in 2018, the U.S. Department of Transportation participated in cleanups on their local and interstate highway systems.[8] [9] [10]

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.[11] [12] Earth Day and presenting partners World CleanUp Day, National CleanUp Day and Keep America Beautiful organized individual activities like Plogging and the TrashTag Challenge.[13]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023-09-16 . On National Cleanup Day, founders return to Mission Trails Regional Park . 2023-12-20 . ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV . en.
  2. Web site: Get out your trash bags: Saturday is National Cleanup Day . September 21, 2021 . Spectrum News 1 . December 15, 2022.
  3. Web site: National Cleanup Day: City of Amarillo joins volunteers in cleaning up North Heights . September 15, 2018 . News Channel 10 . November 22, 2021.
  4. Web site: Participate in National Cleanup Day through the Y . September 18, 2018 . Circling the News . November 22, 2021.
  5. Web site: About Clean Trails - Past Results . . 26 July 2019 . cleantrails.org . 26 July 2019.
  6. Web site: National Clean-Up Day 2020: Be Part of The Solution, Not the Pollution . Plus Printers . December 15, 2022.
  7. Web site: Millions of people participate in World Cleanup Day and National Cleanup Day . . 24 September 2019 . earthday.org . 11 December 2019 . 11 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191211235914/https://www.earthday.org/2019/09/24/millions-of-people-participate-in-world-cleanup-day/ . dead .
  8. Web site: Adopt a Highway volunteers bag a win for Arizona on National CleanUp Day . October 5, 2018 . Arizona Department of Transportation . July 19, 2021.
  9. Web site: Join National CleanUp Day! . August 11, 2020 . Arizona Department of Transportation . July 19, 2021.
  10. Web site: Florida Department of Transportation . n.d. . National CleanUp Day . July 19, 2021.
  11. Web site: We Only Have One Planet. Save It! . September 16, 2020 . Girl Scouts . May 18, 2020.
  12. Web site: 500,000 Volunteers Take Part in Earth Day 2019 Cleanup . . 22 July 2019 . earthday.org . 22 July 2019.
  13. Web site: The Great Global CleanUp - Earth Day 2020 . . 25 March 2020 . Earth911.com . 25 March 2020.

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