National CleanUp Day

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.

National CleanUp Day
National CleanUp Day
Observed byNational CleanUp Day is observed in the United States in all 50 States and US Territories.
CelebrationsVolunteer to cleanup the country. From Sea to Shining Sea.
Date3rd Saturday in September
2020 dateSeptember 19  (2020-09-19)
2021 dateSeptember 18  (2021-09-18)
2022 dateSeptember 17  (2022-09-17)
2023 dateSeptember 16  (2023-09-16)
FrequencyAnnual

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 Challenge.[4]

CleanUp events are held throughout the month of September and include National Public Lands Day. Additional programs held year round include Clean Trails, Clean City USA, and CleanUp News.[5]

National CleanUp Day events are held in the United States, Aruba, Bahamas, Belarus, Canada, Dominican Republic, India, Israel, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Romania, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the Philippines.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] [20][21][22]

National CleanUp Day Hiking

In 2020, National CleanUp Day introduced the Tailored CleanUp@ program for businesses and cities. The program is free and 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.[23] 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.[24][25][26]

CleanUp News was launched on September 19, 2020 and contains CleanUp articles for general readership, science articles and resources for journalists and writers. Actor Cobie Smulders joined with Clean Trails and Planet Oat to promote cleanup activities for National CleanUp Day.[27][28]

National CleanUp Day is a nonprofit organization, was founded by Bill Willoughby and Steve Jewett.[29][30]

See also

References
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  2. "Millions of people participate in World Cleanup Day and National Cleanup Day". earthday.org. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  3. "500,000 Volunteers Take Part in Earth Day 2019 Cleanup". earthday.org. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
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  5. https://www.nationalcleanupday.org
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  7. "NNWC "We Are One Campaign" Celebrates through the 12 Days of Christmas". The Bahamas Weekly. December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  8. "How Rwanda Tidied Up Its Streets (And The Rest Of The Country, Too)". NPR. July 18, 2018. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
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  10. "Volunteers from 26 Romanian counties to join National Cleanup Day later this month". Romania-Insider.com. September 11, 2019. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  11. "Umodzi Park joins clean up initiative". Nyasa Times. December 14, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  12. "Be The Change - Israel's National Cleanup Day is tomorrow!". Time Out. April 1, 2019. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  13. "National Coastal Clean Up". Aruba.com. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  14. "Cleaning up Cape Town's Black River Plastic Tsunami in the Time of Covid". My News Desk. August 23, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  15. "DOMINICAN REPUBLIC NATIONAL CLEANUP DAY". Parley for the Oceans. September 29, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  16. "Entidades de la municipalidad realizarán jornada por Día Nacional de la Limpieza". Federación Dominicana de Municipios. September 18, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  17. "National CleanUp Day 2020". September 18, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  18. "The Taiwan National Cleanup Day – 20th May 2018". One Brown Planet. May 20, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  19. "Over 300 birch trees planted by China-Belarus industrial park officials on national cleanup day". Republic of Belarus. April 20, 2019. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  20. "Initiate monthly cleanup exercises in all counties". Ministry of the Environment, Republic of Kenya. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  21. "Sault/Algoma National Cleanup Day Sept. 19th!". Sault Online. September 19, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  22. "Clean-up campaign aims to sensitise locals". Namibian Mews. September 23, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  23. "National CleanUp Day Municipalities". nationalcleanupday.org. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  24. "National CleanUp Day Annual Report 2020". CleanUp News. December 14, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  25. "Caring for the Environment on National Cleanup Day". Her Next Chapter. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  26. "Friday, September 11, 2020 National Clean-Up Day". Schule und Kita am Käferberg. September 11, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  27. Sophie Hirsh. "Cobie Smulders Is Cleaning Up the Planet — Want to Join Her?". greenmatters.com.
  28. "Measuring Success from National CleanUp Month with AllSeasons PR". CleanUp News. October 10, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  29. https://www.earthday.org/national-cleanup-day-announces-return-on-sept-21/
  30. "Hiking Friends Inspire Thousands to Clean Up the Trails". Epoch Times. July 12, 2017. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
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