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In 2021, National CleanUp Day, World CleanUp Day, and EARTHDAY.ORG partnered to provide organized events together using a common, shared mapping system resulting in the collection of 145 million pounds of trash. An estimated 12 million people participated in 191 countries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2021/10/18/world-national-cleanup-days-net-145-million-pounds-and-counting/?sh=3ee1ecb46fd4 |title=World National Cleanup Days Net 145 Million Pounds and Counting |date=October 18, 2021 |publisher=Forbes |access-date=December 15, 2022}}</ref>
In 2021, National CleanUp Day, World CleanUp Day, and EARTHDAY.ORG partnered to provide organized events together using a common, shared mapping system resulting in the collection of 145 million pounds of trash. An estimated 12 million people participated in 191 countries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2021/10/18/world-national-cleanup-days-net-145-million-pounds-and-counting/?sh=3ee1ecb46fd4 |title=World National Cleanup Days Net 145 Million Pounds and Counting |date=October 18, 2021 |publisher=Forbes |access-date=December 15, 2022}}</ref>


In 2022, the mapping system was enhanced using the [[Esri]] GIS Hub allowing non-profits, government entities, and partners to directly include their local community cleanup maps to the Global Cleanup Map.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.greenmatters.com/community/national-cleanup-day |title=National CleanUp Day Is Coming Up — Here's How to Help Clean Up the Planet |date=September 9, 2022 |publisher=Green Matters |access-date=December 15, 2022}}</ref> [[Bimbo Bakeries USA|Thomas Brothers]] partnered with local organizations like [[Lake Sammamish|Friends of Lake Sammamish Park]] and the [[Forest Park (Portland, Oregon)|Forest Park Conservancy]] for trail cleanups on National Cleanup Day and [[National Public Lands Day]].
In 2022, the mapping system was enhanced using the [[Esri]] GIS Hub allowing non-profits, government entities, and partners to directly include their local community cleanup maps to the Global Cleanup Map. The Cleanup Hub is a tool to better support the cleanup movement<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.greenmatters.com/community/national-cleanup-day |title=National CleanUp Day Is Coming Up — Here's How to Help Clean Up the Planet |date=September 9, 2022 |publisher=Green Matters |access-date=December 15, 2022}}</ref> [[Bimbo Bakeries USA|Thomas Brothers]] partnered with local organizations like [[Lake Sammamish|Friends of Lake Sammamish Park]] and the [[Forest Park (Portland, Oregon)|Forest Park Conservancy]] for trail cleanups on National Cleanup Day and [[National Public Lands Day]].


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National CleanUp Day
Observed byNational CleanUp Day is observed globally.
CelebrationsVolunteer to cleanup the country. From Sea to Shining Sea.
Date3rd Saturday in September
FrequencyAnnual

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 promotes 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 nonprofit organization founded by Bill Willoughby and Steve Jewett.[1][2][3]

History

The inaugural National CleanUp Day was held in 2017 and had more than 225,000 volunteers.[4] 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.[5][6][7]

The 2019 cleanup received nearly two million volunteers and resulted in the collection of 18 million pounds of waste.[8] 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.[9] Beginning in 2018, the U.S. Department of Transportation participated in cleanups on their local and interstate highway systems.[10][11][12]

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.[13][14] In 2020, the Great Global CleanUp by Earth Day was originally planned to include thousands of large group cleanups but most events were cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[15] 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.[16]

In 2020, National CleanUp Day introduced the Tailored CleanUp program for businesses and cities.[17] The program is 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.[18] 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.[19][20][21]

Events

National Cleanup Month events are held throughout September and include a focus on events on public lands on the fourth Saturday of the month.[22]

National CleanUp Day events are held in the United States, Aruba, Bahamas, Belarus, Bhutan, Canada, China, Dominican Republic, India, Israel, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the Philippines.[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]

In 2021, National CleanUp Day, World CleanUp Day, and EARTHDAY.ORG partnered to provide organized events together using a common, shared mapping system resulting in the collection of 145 million pounds of trash. An estimated 12 million people participated in 191 countries.[46]

In 2022, the mapping system was enhanced using the Esri GIS Hub allowing non-profits, government entities, and partners to directly include their local community cleanup maps to the Global Cleanup Map. The Cleanup Hub is a tool to better support the cleanup movement[47] Thomas Brothers partnered with local organizations like Friends of Lake Sammamish Park and the Forest Park Conservancy for trail cleanups on National Cleanup Day and National Public Lands Day.

Media

CleanUp News was launched on September 19, 2020, and contains CleanUp articles for the general readership, science articles, and resources for journalists and writers.[48] The first of a series of interviews with world leaders was published in June 2021. The interview featured the President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson.[49]

Actor Cobie Smulders joined with Clean Trails and Planet Oat to promote cleanup activities for National CleanUp Day.[50][51]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Hiking Friends Inspire Thousands to Clean Up the Trails". Epoch Times. July 12, 2017. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
  3. ^ "What if everyone picked up one piece of litter?". National CleanUp Day. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  4. ^ "Get out your trash bags: Saturday is National Cleanup Day". Spectrum News 1. September 21, 2021. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  5. ^ "National Cleanup Day: City of Amarillo joins volunteers in cleaning up North Heights". News Channel 10. September 15, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  6. ^ "Participate in National Cleanup Day through the Y". Circling the News. September 18, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  7. ^ "About Clean Trails - Past Results". cleantrails.org. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  8. ^ "National Clean-Up Day 2020: Be Part of The Solution, Not the Pollution". Plus Printers. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  9. ^ "Millions of people participate in World Cleanup Day and National Cleanup Day". earthday.org. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  10. ^ "Adopt a Highway volunteers bag a win for Arizona on National CleanUp Day". Arizona Department of Transportation. October 5, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  11. ^ "Join National CleanUp Day!". Arizona Department of Transportation. August 11, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  12. ^ "Florida Department of Transportation". National CleanUp Day. n.d. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  13. ^ "We Only Have One Planet. Save It!". Girl Scouts. September 16, 2020. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  14. ^ "500,000 Volunteers Take Part in Earth Day 2019 Cleanup". earthday.org. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
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  16. ^ "The Great Global CleanUp - Earth Day 2020". Earth911.com. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  17. ^ "National CleanUp Day is September 17, 2022". Cleanup News. September 1, 2022. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  18. ^ "National CleanUp Day Municipalities". nationalcleanupday.org. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  19. ^ "National CleanUp Day Annual Report 2020". CleanUp News. December 14, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  20. ^ "Caring for the Environment on National Cleanup Day". Her Next Chapter. 8 October 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  21. ^ "Friday, September 11, 2020 National Clean-Up Day". Schule und Kita am Käferberg. September 11, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  22. ^ "Home". nationalcleanupday.org.
  23. ^ "2019-national-cleanup-day-for-central-visayas". Philippine Government. September 21, 2019. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  24. ^ "NNWC "We Are One Campaign" Celebrates through the 12 Days of Christmas". The Bahamas Weekly. December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  25. ^ "How Rwanda Tidied Up Its Streets (And The Rest Of The Country, Too)". NPR. July 18, 2018. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  26. ^ "Sierra Leone holds first national cleanup day". news 24. May 6, 2018. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  27. ^ "Volunteers from 26 Romanian counties to join National Cleanup Day later this month". Romania-Insider.com. September 11, 2019. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  28. ^ "Umodzi Park joins clean up initiative". Nyasa Times. December 14, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  29. ^ "Be The Change - Israel's National Cleanup Day is tomorrow!". Time Out. April 1, 2019. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  30. ^ "National Coastal Clean Up". Aruba.com. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  31. ^ "Cleaning up Cape Town's Black River Plastic Tsunami in the Time of Covid". My News Desk. August 23, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  32. ^ "DOMINICAN REPUBLIC NATIONAL CLEANUP DAY". Parley for the Oceans. September 29, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  33. ^ "Entidades de la municipalidad realizarán jornada por Día Nacional de la Limpieza". Federación Dominicana de Municipios. September 18, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  34. ^ "National CleanUp Day 2020". YouTube. September 18, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  35. ^ "The Taiwan National Cleanup Day – 20th May 2018". One Brown Planet. May 20, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  36. ^ "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.
  37. ^ "Initiate monthly cleanup exercises in all counties". Ministry of the Environment, Republic of Kenya. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  38. ^ "Sault/Algoma National Cleanup Day Sept. 19th!". Sault Online. September 19, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  39. ^ "Clean-up campaign aims to sensitise locals". Namibian Mews. September 23, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  40. ^ "ZATERDAG 20 MAART LANDELIJKE OPSCHOONDAG: WORD WEER VERLIEFD OP JE BUURT". Nederland Schoon. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  41. ^ "Join us in National Clean up week". Plastics.org. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
  42. ^ "Let's do it Romania! National Cleanup Day 2019". World of Recycling. September 24, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
  43. ^ "9th December 2016 – National Cleaning Campaign". Government of Bhutan, Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. December 9, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
  44. ^ "Sweden Observes National Cleaning Day". Medium.com. September 19, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
  45. ^ "Clean up campaign launched in Kranskop". news24. September 29, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  46. ^ "World National Cleanup Days Net 145 Million Pounds and Counting". Forbes. October 18, 2021. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  47. ^ "National CleanUp Day Is Coming Up — Here's How to Help Clean Up the Planet". Green Matters. September 9, 2022. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  48. ^ "World CleanUp Day 2020 Launches with Millions of Participants Expected". Cleanup News. September 19, 2020. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  49. ^ "Plogging and Leading by Example: an Interview with the President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson". Cleanup News. June 14, 2021. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  50. ^ Sophie Hirsh (11 September 2020). "Cobie Smulders Is Cleaning Up the Planet — Want to Join Her?". greenmatters.com.
  51. ^ "Measuring Success from National CleanUp Month with AllSeasons PR". CleanUp News. October 10, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
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