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Greatest American Cleanup – Communities

Declare Your Support for the Greatest American Cleanup

Signing the declaration signals your community is Committed to engage in cleanups, beautification efforts, recycling projects, education, and of course – a celebration through a simple framework to help America look her best on her 250th birthday.

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Composite graphic: a circular photo of a man in a grey suit and striped tie leaning over a boardroom table to sign a printed Declaration of Action for the Greatest American Cleanup beside a wooden gavel. A round badge reads GREATEST AMERICAN CLEANUP, KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL, FOR AMERICA'S 250TH, with red and blue line-drawn trees scattered around.

For communities greater than 100,000 people, follow these five steps to make a difference in your community.

We’re looking for communities across the USA to officially declare their support for the Greatest American Cleanup by taking actions to affirm their commitment to being clean, green, and beautiful for America’s 250th Celebration. By signing the declaration, you are committing to the following framework to help make your community even more beautiful.

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Organize and participate in FIVE new annual community cleanups, encouraging citizens of all ages to join in removing litter from our streets, parks, and public spaces.

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Host FOUR beautification events each year, enhancing our city’s appeal through public art, planting trees, flowers, and creating improving or maintaining green spaces.

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Hold THREE reduce, reuse, recycle annual experiences promoting responsible waste disposal and resource conservation.

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Convene TWO community gatherings annually, for citizens to connect and provide feedback about their community vision, needs, and opportunities.

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Celebrate with ONE event each year to recognize the progress and accomplishments of our community to be clean, green, beautiful, and ready for our nation’s 250th birthday!

For communities with less than 100,000 people, follow these three steps.

Flat graphic: the numeral 3 in dark violet, set inside a thin violet circle outline on white.

Organize and participate in THREE annual community cleanups, encouraging citizens of all ages to join in removing litter from our streets, parks and public spaces.

Numeral 2 in purple inside a thin purple circle outline on white

Host TWO reduce, reuse, recycle or beautification events each year, enhancing our community’s appeal through reduced waste, public art, planting trees, flowers, and creating, improving or maintaining green spaces.

Numeral 1 in purple inside a thin purple circle outline on white

Celebrate with ONE event each year to recognize the progress and accomplishments of our community to be clean, green, beautiful, and ready for our nation’s 250th birthday!

Follow these three steps to get started.

Whether you’re an affiliate, a representative of the government, a community group

of any size or format, or a business—you can join the movement.

Has Your Community Joined?

Check to see if your community has signed the Declaration of Action

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From Highways to Coastlines: New Research Uncovers the True Scope of Litter in America

June 15, 2026 · McCall Vrydaghs

Listen to this podcast episode exploring the methodology, data collection, and key insights behind the Keep America Beautiful 2026 National Litter Study.

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Undescribed photograph from Keep America Beautiful Recycling Pilot Shows Strong Results at Grand Teton National Park. No description was migrated for this image.

Keep America Beautiful Recycling Pilot Shows Strong Results at Grand Teton National Park

June 15, 2026 · McCall Vrydaghs

Collaboration with TerraCycle® and Grand Teton Lodge Company®, with support from the National Park Foundation helped reduce landfilled waste, improve diversion, and create new recycling options for hard-to-recycle materials.

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Undescribed photograph from National Secure Your Load Day on June 6 Marks 10 Years of Raising Awareness About Preventable Roadway Hazards. No description was migrated for this image.

National Secure Your Load Day on June 6 Marks 10 Years of Raising Awareness About Preventable Roadway Hazards

June 5, 2026 · McCall Vrydaghs

According to the Keep America Beautiful 2026 National Litter Study, an estimated 454 million pieces of roadway litter are linked to unsecured loads.

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Share Your Story

Do you have a story about work being done in your community? If so, we would love to hear from you.

Share your story!

The Greatest American Cleanup is made possible by the support of great companies like these:

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iHeartMEDIA INC logo with a red heart containing radio waves and a figure, next to black and grey lettering
Black-and-white logo: the word Hilton set in a serif face inside a thin rectangular outline box, filling a wide white field.
Small Niagara Cares badge on white: orange lettering with the g's droplet tail and a hand-drawn blue heart around "cares"
Wider white field carrying the blue "NORTHROP GRUMMAN" wordmark and its right-angle bracket mark
Corporate logo on a wide white field: a mosaic of small coloured squares in blue, orange, red and green to the left of the word Altria in navy serif type.
Flat corporate logo: a striped blue-and-white globe sphere beside the letters AT&T set in dark grey type on a white background.
Logo on white: CAROL CONE in grey capitals above ON PURPOSE in orange, with an orange C-shaped mark enclosing a dark grey wedge at the right, the mark cropped close to the edge.
Flat wordmark logo on a white background reading COX in light blue letters.
Corporate logo on white: a solid red diamond with the word Dow lettered across it in white, a small registered trademark symbol at the lower right of the diamond.
Flat logo on white: a green circle containing a white starburst behind a triangular peak, above the word Fidelity in green italic type with INVESTMENTS beneath.
The Target bullseye mark alone on white: a solid red ring around a white ring around a solid red centre dot, with no words.
Flat logo on white: a black square-and-circle mark in green and peach beside the words The Harris Poll in heavy black type, with A STAGWELL COMPANY in small spaced capitals beneath.
Flat wordmark on white: Scotts in green italic serif letters followed by Miracle-Gro in heavy black type, with two small green leaves sprouting from the letter i.
Flat logo on white: overlapping red, yellow, green, teal and magenta petal shapes forming a stylised fruit and leaves, above the wordmark THE J.M. SMUCKER Co.
Stacked logo in black on white: a long-winged heron in flight above the words CHESAPEAKE BAY in tall spaced capitals, with FRAGRANCE centred in smaller letters below.

American Express Foundation

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Special thanks to the artists that donated their time and talent to our cause:

Photography: Nancy Andrews (opens in a new tab)

Vocalists on Videos: Eric Scott (opens in a new tab) & Patty Reese (opens in a new tab)

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