National CleanUp Day
National CleanUp Day | |
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Observed by | National CleanUp Day is observed in the United States in all 50 States and US Territories. |
Celebrations | Volunteer to cleanup the country. From Sea to Shining Sea. |
Date | 3rd Saturday in September |
2023 date | September 16 |
2024 date | September 21 |
2025 date | September 20 |
2026 date | September 19 |
Frequency | Annual |
National CleanUp Day is celebrated annually in the United States on the third Saturday of September. It promotes both organized and individual cleanup events and volunteering to keep the outdoors clean.
The inaugural National CleanUp Day was held in 2017 and had more than 225,000 volunteers. 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.[1] The 2019 cleanup had almost 2,000,000 volunteers, 18 million pounds of waste collected. The US 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.[2] National CleanUp Day partners include Earth Day, Keep America Beautiful, World Cleanup Day, Waterkeeper Alliance, National Parks Conservation Association, Junior Chamber International, Granite Gear, Fjallraven, and Clean Trails. 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.[3] In 2020, the Great Global CleanUp by Earth Day was originally planned to include thousands of large group cleanups but the COVID-19 pandemic caused cancellation of most group events. Instead, Earth Day and presenting partners World CleanUp Day, National CleanUp Day and Keep America Beautiful organized individual activities like Plogging and the TrashTag TrashTag Challenge.[4]
CleanUp events are held throughout the month of September and include National Public Lands Day.[5]
See also
- Let's Do It! World
- Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day
- Plogging
- Good Deeds Day
- Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
- International Volunteer Day
- Litter in the United States
- National Public Lands Day
- 4ocean
- Ocean Conservancy
- The Ocean Cleanup
- The Plastic Bank
- World Oceans Day
External links
References
- ^ "About Clean Trails - Past Results". cleantrails.org. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ^ "Millions of people participate in World Cleanup Day and National Cleanup Day". earthday.org. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ "500,000 Volunteers Take Part in Earth Day 2019 Cleanup". earthday.org. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ "The Great Global CleanUp - Earth Day 2020". Earth911.com. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ https://www.nationalcleanupday.org
- National CleanUp Day
- Clean Trails
- Amarillo Texas National CleanUp Day 2018 Event
- WaterKeeper Alliance 2018 Event
- Hiking Friends Inspire Thousands
- Clean Up The World
- YMCA and National CleanUp Day
- National CleanUp Day in American Samoa
- Keep America Beautiful
- Earth Day 2019 CleanUp with National CleanUp Day