Saturday, April 5 • 9am-2pm

Michael and Team

Our goals are to:

  • Recruit over 10,000 volunteers
  • Clean up 5,000 neighborhood blocks
  • Clean more than 50 commercial corridors along major thoroughfares
  • Clean 10 neighborhood recreation centers
  • Clean 10 areas in Fairmount Park
  • Remove over 1 million pounds of trash and litter from across the city!

After the Cleanup...

Eagles
After the Cleanup, we'll be celebrating our success together. Join Mayor Nutter and your fellow volunteers for a post-Cleanup Volunteer Appreciation BBQ hosted by the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field.

 

SEPTA
Volunteers ride SEPTA home and to the Eagles party for free!

 

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On April 5th, Philadelphians in neighborhoods across the city gave our city a good Spring Cleaning! Stay involved in keeping your neighborhoods clean by volunteering with the Philadelphia More Beautiful Committee. Contact PMBC at 215-685-3981 or visit www.phila.gov/STREETS/pmbc.html for more information and to see a schedule of clean-ups being organized in your area.

 

Thanks for helping to make the Philly Spring Cleanup such a huge success! The Cleanup was the largest single day, citywide clean-up event on record in the United States.

 

Philly Spring Cleanup in numbers:

  • 2.56m pounds of trash collected – goal set was one million pounds
    Estimated 15,000 volunteers – goal set was 10,000 volunteers
  • 71 commercial corridors – goal set was 50
  • 28 Recreation Centers – goal set was 10
  • 27 Fairmount Park sites – goal set was 10
  • 186 abandoned cars removed from the streets
  • Supplies used:
    • 65,600 biodegradable paper trash bags
    • 14,050 biodegradable paper recycling bags
    • 17,269 pairs of gloves
    • 9,804 brooms
    • Over 200 community organizations involved
    • 3,649 volunteers attended the post-Cleanup BBQ at Lincoln Financial Field

 

To see the full results of the Cleanup, click here.

 

Take a look at the map to see the nearly 200 community Cleanup sites that hosted volunteer crews on April 5th.