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Clean California Community Days 2023

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Join us for Clean California Community Days — Spring Into Action, a volunteer service event and celebration sponsored by the Governor's Office, Caltrans, and our partners across California.

This statewide 10-day event kicks off Friday, March 17, with a big splash of activities occurring on Saturday, March 25. The goal is to work together to clean up our communities and spread the word about taking pride in keeping California clean. Activities include:

Dump Day Events

Dispose of waste materials for free, avoiding landfill fees and creating equitable access to disposal options. Some Dump Days also offer additional services like tire, mattress, e-waste, and appliance recycling.

Community Clean-ups

Take pride in your community with a local volunteer clean-up event. Join one already scheduled or plan your own. It can be a large group of people plogging at a beach or even a single person picking up around their block. Learn how you can hold a clean-up in your community here.

Festivals: Educational and Entertaining!

Celebrate your community while learning about the impacts of litter and how to properly dispose of it. These family-friendly events feature music, food, informational booths, educational games, and other opportunities to unite communities.

Tree Plantings

Pitch in and combat the Heat Island Effect while beautifying communal spaces through tree and native plant plantings.

Check out all the events here

You can also sign-up to host and organize a community clean-up. Once registered, your cleanup will be added to the statewide Clean California Community Day map. Read more below:

 
photo of different volunteers participating in Community Day events

Join the Movement!

How to organize a Clean California Community Day clean-up:

 
  1. Identify where your clean-up will take place, the number of volunteers, and the date of your clean-up. Events can be scheduled for any time from March 17-27.
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  2. Sign-up/register through our website.
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  3. Identify from which Caltrans Maintenance station you would like to pick up your trash bags and litter pickers. (Click here for location and times).
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  4. Review our Safety Fact Sheets on how to safely pick-up and properly dispose of litter.
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  5. Consider how you will properly dispose of your collected waste. If you are unable to dispose of collected trash yourself, you will need to contact your local municipality for permission and waste disposal. Aim to recycle as much waste as possible.
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  6. On the day of your clean-up, in addition to your trash bags and litter pickers, remember to bring water, sunscreen and other items that you may need to safely be outdoors for an extended period of time.
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  7. Before you leave your clean-up site, use this QR Code to share pictures of you and your team abating litter and to report how many bags of litter were collected.
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  8. Celebrate the day! Thank your team, take a group picture, and share it on social media using #CleanCA #CleanCADay #ACleanerCA. Our Mission is to inspire an actionable change in behavior for All Californians by producing a statewide event to unite and transform communities' while boosting pride, abating litter, beautifying communal spaces, and protecting the environment.
 

Our Mission is to inspire an actionable change in behavior for All Californians by producing a statewide event to unite and transform communities' while boosting pride, abating litter, beautifying communal spaces, and protecting the environment.