Join the community cleanup and help keep Clarington litter-free!

Get involved and join your neighbours and friends from April 15 to 21 to help keep Clarington litter-free. Let’s work together to clear garbage and recycling that’s accumulated over the winter and ensure our neighbourhoods, local parks, green spaces, and trails are beautiful and safe for everyone to enjoy.

To organize a cleanup in your neighbourhood, contact operations@clarington.net or 905-623-3379 ext. 2291. Let us know which park, trail, or green space you’ll be cleaning and how many people will be helping out. We’ll provide garbage bags and gloves and coordinate the disposal of the collected waste.

If you can’t join the big cleanup in April, we can help support your cleanup efforts year-round.

When we all pitch in together, we can make a big difference!

Other cleanup events in Clarington

• Operation Clean Sweep
  Port of Newcastle, Bond Head, and Samuel Wilmot Nature Areas.
  Saturday, April 20, 2024, from 10 a.m. to noon. Barbecue at noon.
  

• Great Lakes Watershed Annual Earth Day Community Cleanup
  Presented by Bowmanville Rotary Club and Valleys 2000.
  Saturday, April 20, 2024, from 9 a.m. to noon. Barbecue to follow in Spry Avenue parking lot.
  Locations:
  Bowmanville Creek south parking lot at Spry Avenue and Baseline Road.
  Bowmanville Creek Dam at Roenigk Drive and King Street West.
  Visual Arts Centre 143 Simpson at the north parking lot
by the baseball diamond.
  Concession Street East and Soper Creek Drive.

Cleanup safety tips:

• Wear gloves while picking up waste.
• Avoid touching your face.
• Immediately wash or sanitize your hands when you’re done collecting waste.
• Supervise children and don’t let children wander off alone.
• Avoid unsafe areas such as railway tracks, creeks, riverbanks and roadways.
• Do not pick up dangerous items like needles, broken glass, hazardous waste or dead animals. Please email operations@clarington.net to let us know the location of these items, and we will arrange for safe disposal.