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PHOTO GALLERY: Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup® 2023

July 27, 2023 · McCall Vrydaghs

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Keep America Beautiful® affiliates and volunteers proudly showcase their nationwide clean-up endeavors as part of the Great American Cleanup®

Teenagers in orange vests gather between a yellow school bus and a blue pickup piled with collected bags; a volunteer holds a Road Ban cleanup sign

Two men bag litter on a pine-needle roadside, green and orange collection bags standing on the ground beside them

Teenagers in blue and white shirts spread and rake fresh gravel around the base of a weathered green park "Rules" sign along a shaded walking track

Eight volunteers in caps stand on a grassy slope behind a long row of black trash bags; a pickup truck and a McDonald's sign in the background

Blue collage: two group shots of a crowd in orange vests by an "Adopt a Highway Next 2 Miles B2Z Engineering Employees" sign, plus a Trash-Off 2023 badge

Boy in a neon safety vest and red shorts stands on a rural roadside behind five clear green bags packed with collected cans and bottles

Woman in a black dress and a man in a gold suit hold a framed proclamation in front of a Texas City EST. 1911 wall seal and US flag

Twelve college-age women in neon yellow vests hold litter grabbers and a black bag on a riverside stone landing on an overcast day

A long line of volunteers in raincoats and hi-vis vests hold yellow trash bags on a wet parking lot under grey skies, houses and a US flag behind

Woman in a neon hoodie and sunglasses crouches in dry grass filling a black bag with a grabber, a child and other volunteers blurred behind her

Fifteen volunteers in lime safety vests hold black trash bags and clipboards inside a stone-fireplace park shelter

Five-photo collage around the words THANK YOU: six adults with bags and grabbers by a stone wall, a firefighter carrying a black bag, a volunteer bending in a lawn

A lone volunteer in an orange vest drags a green bag through tall roadside grass at the edge of a pine wood

Lions Club volunteers in lime vests load a caged trailer packed with bagged litter on a gravel lot behind a chain-link fence

Twenty-odd students perch on a rail in an open prairie field with filled black bags beside them, next to a blue breathe easy no tobacco use sign

Eight volunteers in neon vests and winter layers stand on a park lawn holding green cleanup bags, stadium light poles and a ballfield behind them

Thirteen volunteers in coats and hats pose with black trash bags and grabbers by a city pickup truck against a brick wall

Ten volunteers, several in yellow Cleanup Month T-shirts, hold shovels and a rake beside a blue garbage truck on a desert roadside with mountains behind

Seven young volunteers in red, green and blue shirts hold bottles and litter bags along a country road, two full clear bags on the pavement

Selfie of a man in an orange safety vest with two women holding grabbers behind him at a blue Spartanburg County Adopt-A-Road Litter Control Program sign

Five volunteers in dark jackets and caps stand arm in arm in front of a box truck painted with a butterfly, sky and grass mural

Ten adults and children in lime hi-vis vests hold trash bags and grabbers in a parking lot outside a low brick building

Four sanitation workers in hi-vis vests stand behind roughly thirty tied orange bags of collected litter beside a blue Republic Services dumpster

Six volunteers in "Keep San Antonio Beautiful" shirts hold white bags of collected bottles on stadium bleachers at night, the San Antonio ISD field lit behind them

Wide shot of children and adults in neon vests kneeling on a wooded roadside with black trash bags; a girl in work gloves cradles a box turtle

Six adults pose on a wooded greenway path with black and white trash bags and litter grabbers, one man raising his grabber overhead

Ten volunteers in orange vests raise their fists behind a roadside heap of scrap tyres, timber and torn metal they have hauled out

Seven teenagers in red, green and blue shirts with blue gloves stand along a gravel roadside beside filled white and green trash bags

Nine officers and staff in polos and hoodies pose on a greenway path beside a utility cart piled with black trash bags, radio tower behind

Nine people in jackets and sun hats stand above a long heap of tied black bags and a discarded tyre on a green embankment beside a road

Two women with black bags and a man in a lime vest holding a clear bag full of plastic bottles on a wooded roadside verge

About a hundred volunteers in orange BEAUTIFY FRESNO shirts and high-visibility vests pose with litter grabbers outside a school gym

Bald man in a white Beautify Fresno shirt with his arms around three children in orange shirts and lime gloves holding litter grabbers

Selfie of a woman in a neon vest on a gravel roadside, with two girls, another woman and a man in vests behind her under a "California Rd" street sign and stop sign

An older man in an orange long-sleeved shirt carries a white bag and a full orange litter bag up a residential driveway

Selfie of two men in navy Crossroads Mission Avenue polos at a park playground, the younger one carrying orange litter grabbers

A bearded man in a green shirt stands by a street-corner pile of black bags, an old tyre and a loaded utility trailer with a John Deere Gator behind

Line of volunteers in orange safety vests fill orange bags along a highway shoulder under an overpass on an overcast day

Three volunteers in lime hi-vis vests, one lettered KEEP CHESTER COUNTY BEAUTIFUL on the back, stand in a brushy lot near a parked bus

Three people sort small collected items on a blue-draped table inside a recycling facility, bales of crushed plastic bottles stacked behind them

Crew in yellow and orange vests by a trailer outside a brick town hall, a sign reading "Please help us keep Walnut Grove beautiful"; a man sits in a green golf cart

Man in a bright green "Keep Rockland Beautiful" T-shirt stands with two women and two boys in knit hats by a white SUV, cones and a gear bag at their feet

Collage on green of roadside cleanups: volunteers in lime vests with grabbers and bags, a group with a banner at Waldron City Hall, and the Keep Arkansas Beautiful badge

Woman in a floral top holds a litter grabber beside a green wheeled bin topped with a bagged haul and a dustpan on a sunny lawn

Two dozen students and adults, some in lime safety vests over blue shirts, point toward the lens from the stone staircase of a public building

Eight volunteers in hoodies hold orange litter grabbers on a waterfront pier beside a mural reading every day WE LOVE the Bay

Volunteers in pale blue GAC shirts hold a sponsor-covered Great American Cleanup Oklahoma banner; overlaid text reads Tuesday, May 2, 2023, Zeigler Park, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Five volunteers in lime safety vests stand at a pickup truck on a wooded two-lane road behind a yard sign reading The spirit of this community is PICKING UP!

Three men and a woman in green fnbo and "making an IMPACT" shirts hold open black bags on a lawn by a fenced tennis court, a young girl beside them

Two women in white rainbow Team UP T-shirts hold litter grabbers and a white bag in a spring woodland

Nine volunteers, one in a Pepsi Community Impact Team shirt, stand on a gravel lakeside track beside a long row of filled black bags

Families in lime vests with grabbers and blue tote bags beneath an Adopt a Highway sign reading KEEPING DEFIANCE COUNTY ROADS CLEAN!

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