Thank you for your tireless work keeping Virginia beautiful!
Please submit your results using this form. We gather this data to track where the work is being done — how much litter and recyclables you picked up from our roadsides and landscape, as well as other projects such as number of trees planted, trails cleared, or invasive plants removed, etc.
This helps us in so many ways to plan, promote, and support anti-litter work across the state.
Thanks for taking the time to submit this report form each time you’ve improved our natural and scenic landscape!
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Thirty in 30 Grant winners Christopher Newport University is getting to work!
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Main Street Cleanup
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- Broad Rock Baptist Church FIRST Adopt-a-Highway clean up! On behalf of the Broad Rock Baptist Church Youth Ministry, I want to say thank you for the opportunity to participate in the adopt a highway program. The youth enjoyed the experience! We are looking forward to many more cleanups!
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- Big Stone Gap Can Pick up Over 3 days we collected 10 Bags of Cans from street, trails, and highways in Big Stone Gap and Applachia VA. All can were dropped off at a recycling center in Coeburn VA.
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- Twin two year olds and mom act of kindness My 2 and a half year old twins and I (their mother) have been working hard cleaning up reams rd in south prince george, and Providence rd in South prince george. We are surrounded by farm fields and like to spread our kindness and appreciation to our local farmers by keeping litter out of their Fields!
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- Doing good together community gathering together to do good together to help make our town beautiful again.
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- Healing Waters Worship Center First we got into the Adopt-A-Highway program and then we set up our clean-up day. We all had a great time making our area ov Virginia beautiful.
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- The Church of Pentecost Social Services (PENTSOS) Cleans Telegraph Road (611) - Area 6 The Church of Pentecost Social Services did its second litter pickup. We hope to return for our third litter pickup in Spring 2021.
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- MPJAI Monthly Fort Eustis Blvd Cleanup
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- Beautiful Day We took advantage of the beautiful weather to volunteer our time to clean up the trails and neighborhoods surrounding Godwin High School. Betsy Woods and I work for Trustmark/ HealthFitness and we love being active and helping our environment and community stay well.
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- Social distance cleanups Hermitage Elementary families come to the school to grab a cleanup kit and choose where they want to cleanup. Some went to their neighborhood and others chose the beach. Our Hermitage Vikings picked up over 50 pounds of trash that otherwise might have wound up in the Chesapeake Bay.
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- What's scarier than Halloween? Litter on VA Roads People use the I-66 exit ramp in Vienna as their personal dump. As they exit they don't seem to hesitate to throw styrofoam carryout boxes, single-use plastic bags, aluminum cans, glass bottles, empty packs of cigarettes, bags of chips, drink covers & straws, candy wrappers. This is the same place I did a litter cleanup last year and found over 80 water-logged newspapers still in their single-use plastic bags. This litter will eventually make its way into our local streams, the Potomac River, the Chesapeake Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean. That's scary!
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- Keep VCU clean!! I got some friends together and we went out to keep the streets of Virginia Commonwealth University clean and beautiful. We got together and got some bags to clean the back alleys behind our dorms! We wanted to keep it clean and safe for the students, people who use the back streets to get to and from work, and the wildlife in Richmond! We cleaned up as much as we could and disposed of the trash afterward to ensure that the trash wouldn't end back into our beautiful streets!
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- Fix-It Fair Terri Bright fixes some beloved jewelry items that were brought to our Fix-It Fair.
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- Maggie's Farm Mother's Day Clean Up On Mother’s Day, my amazing wife led our family into serving our little Deltaville community by picking up the roadside debris to the end of Stingray Point. We picked up nearly 900 pounds of trash, two rusted realtor signs, one tire and one rusted out CD player.
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- CEIC Great American Cleanup On Saturday, September 19, 2020, sixteen volunteers gathered to clean up trash at Chesapeake's municipal center. It was a beautiful day and a great activity to help keep our community clean and healthy. The cleanup was hosted by Chesapeake Environmental Improvement Council in partnership with HRGreen.org and Clean Virginia Waterways. Volunteers documented the trash collected using the Clean Swell app as part of the International Coastal Cleanup. An estimated 360 lbs of trash was collected in just two hours, including 379 cigarette butts, 262 food wrappers, and 283 plastic/foam pieces.
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- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated; Zeta Upsilon Lambda Chapter Adopt a Highway Clean Up Event in Reston, VA Saturday, September 19, 2020
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- Park Your Butts! A family volunteered their time at Lakeside Park in Chesapeake to clean the park during the Great American Cleanup. They brought their own rake to clean all the cigarette butts found around the park shelter. Kudos to this young volunteer for here efforts to make our community clean and green.
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- Seasons Trace Great American Cleanup Members of the Seasons Trace Home Owners organizations participated in the Great American Cleanup, September 19, 2020. Adopt-A-Highway Permit # 5-3200634
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- Alli & Nana This is a pic of my grand daughter and me getting ready for our Trash Pick up!!!
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- Only 1/2 mile of litter Here is over 100 pounds of trash not counting the car muffler. All of this was collected on a 1/2 mile stretch of highway in Northern Frederick County. I have repeatedly asked for assistance from the state to no avail. Within this 1/2 mile there’s trash I can see but can’t get to because of my age and physical limitations. We desperately need some young bucks to help get this garbage picked up. My wife snd I do the best job we can but every year it gets harder and harder.
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- Craig County Democrats Young senior citizens stay in shape by keeping Craig County beautiful.
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- Super Recycler Zoe reprises her role as an ambassador for not only the county's animal shelter, but as a "Super Dog" recycler. Zoe keeps hydrated during the hot summer days and always remembers to RECYCLE RIGHT.
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- The Church of Pentecost Social Services (PENTSOS) Cleans Telegraph Road (611) - Area 6 The Church of Pentecost Social Services cleaned (pickup litter) its adopted, Telegraph Road (611) - Area 6. While most people were sheltered in place in the fear of the COVID-19, PENTSOS conducted its first litter pickup on July 04, 2020, with sixty (60) members participated. The organization collected 26 bags of litters.
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- Reedy Creek @ 42nd ST My weekly Richmond Reedy Creek cleanup effort. I target specific portions of the creek on a daily/weekly basis to remediate trash from flowing into Forest Hill Park pond and then James River.
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- We Recycle Love Frederick County Recycling collects gently loved stuffed critters so that they may find love and hugs again in the heart of another through its “Once Upon A Child” collections.
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- Mud and Mess for Earth Day The Diamond Family celebrated a rainy, muddy Earth Day by cleaning up Morgan Frederick Grade. It was tough work but they had a great family time doing a good thing.
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- Tire-d of all the trash! Unfortunately covid-19 physical distancing requirements on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day meant a solitary trash cleanup project, not the neighborhood-wide event I envisioned. Proud to have removed this from the street & prevented it from entering nearby streams.
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- Community Garden The Lovettsville Cooperative Market is now the sponsor of the Lovettsville Community Garden. The garden was closed for a few seasons and is now ready to go. There are 9 plots rented by Lovettsville residents as well as a flower garden with a combination of annuals and perennials. A new sign was recently installed by our 8 and 12 year old garden plot renters.
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- Social Distancing Adopt a Highway Pickup Sully Democrats, located in Chantilly met recently to complete their Spring litter clean up for the Adopt a Highway program. Three couples met and maintained social distancing protocols while conducting the cleanup, which was a bit lighter than usual, no doubt because of decreased traffic. One new category of litter noted: sanitizing items such as wipes, gloves, etc. We’ll be back in the Fall
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- Adopt-A-Highway Pick-up The Planate Management Group, LLC adopted a stretch of highway along Braddock Road as part of the Adopt-A-Highway program. On 29 MAR 2020, The Planate team – complete with our children volunteers. Attached photo reflects our pickup team, complete with Ryan (L), Greer (Middle), and Lily Bee (R).
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- USCG Alexandria keeping our community clean
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- Clean my commute: 84 waterlogged Washington Post newspapers in their plastic bags I got tired of seeing litter during my daily evening commute and decided to enlist my friend Heidi to help me clean the 1/10 mile stretch of the I-66 exit ramp in Vienna, VA. We found 84 putrid, waterlogged Washington Post newspapers in their plastic bags, along with the usual suspects: single-use plastic bottles, fast food containers, plastic bags, cups with plastic lids & straws, liquor bottles, beer cans, cigarette butts, and other foul-smelling detritus in various stages of disintegration. We can do better for ourselves, for wildlife, for our watershed, and for our planet.
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- USCG Alexandria Had a great time beautifying our local community.
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- LOS DE SIEMPRE Los De Siempre performing our Fall cleaning in Fairfax County. We’re proud to be the first Hispanic group volunteering to keep our roads beautiful. We strongly believe in teaching by example, and we hope this is a good start to let our community know that getting involved with activities that help our environment can not only be rewarding, but fun. In the picture: Oscar Silva, Roosevelt Vidal, Erika Silva, Maribel Flores, Vicky Mariscal, Noemi Vincentty, Miguel Toro, Antonio Daza and Nancy Rojas. (Thanks also to Daisy Mendieta for being the responsible one for picking up and dropping off the signs)
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- Tire-d of removing trash from our roads & stream Miller Heights Neighborhood partnered with Oakton High School Environmental Club & Clean Fairfax for today’s trash cleanup #LitterFreeVA #keepVaBeautiful. This is our 2nd cleanup in 2019 so we’re eligible for 2 Adopt a Highway signs. We found a tire, a string of holiday lights, plastic bags, styrofoam, cans, plastic bottles, broken glass, balls, broken plates, a fork,…
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- Los De Siempre. Hispanic volunteers. Los De Siempre. Proud of being a Hispanic group of volunteers adopting a road in Fairfax. We believe in teaching by example. Our community and children need to know about the importance of getting involved with keeping our Virginia Beautiful. In the picture: Oscar Silva, Roosevelt Vidal, Erika Silva, Maribel Flores, Vicky Mariscal, Noemi Vincentty, Miguel Toro, Antonio Daza and Nancy Rojas.
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- Village Bank Teammates A few of our teammates were able to snap this pic during our October Clean up. We are very proud of our signs – they look great and we love working with Keep VA beautiful!
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- VFW Post 7327 Highway Clean-Up Springfield VFW Post 7327 completed our clean-up of our assigned area of the Franconia-Springfield Parkway on Saturday 19 October 2019. We collected approximately 30+ bags of trash as well as some other large objects. I attached photos of our volunteer group consisting of VFW members and the West Springfield High School Boys Varsity Lacrosse team and photos of the trash we collected.
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- Dickenson County Chamber/Tourism We are proud of our new Nature Love Garden at the Dickenson County Chamber/Visitor Center. It has made a beautiful place for visitors to sit and enjoy the garden and the new LOVEworks sign. We had volunteers come from SWVA Community College, Ridgeview High School, Chamber board and Tourism committee members to clean up the area and plant the garden. Come spring, we should have over 100 flower bulbs popping up in our garden. Thanks to Keep Virginia Beautiful for the grant funding to do this project.
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- NAPS Launches Flotilla for Creek Cleanup With a warm wind and cloudy skies, 62 student and adult volunteers participated in the annual Creek Cleanup organized by the Northumberland Association for Progressive Stewardship (NAPS) on Sunday, October 6th. After a lunch for all participants at the Mallard Bay Community Clubhouse near Heathsville, seven skiff captains shoved off with cleanup teams to remove boatloads of trash and recyclables from the shorelines of the upper Great Wicomico River and adjacent creeks, reported NAPS president Mike Ahart. A small group of kayakers tackled the headwater creeks of Bush Mill Stream and Crabbe Mill Stream. The teams covered over 30 miles of shoreline, bringing the “catch” back to the Mallard Bay piers to be unloaded and sorted. Bottles, cans, plastic, fishing gear and dock debris were removed from the water and shore, plus lawn furniture, a sunken sailboat, old crab baskets and oyster floats, scrap metal, tires and various other trash. Prizes were awarded to the students on the teams with the largest total haul, largest single item, and most unusual item (see photos). In addition, each registered participant was awarded a NAPS-designed T-shirt with a trash crab logo and the message: “don’t trash my Bay!” READ MORE and see full slideshow at NAPSva.org/2019-Creek-Cleanup
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- Silver Beach In just under 1.5 miles, I collected 10 pounds of trash. One plastic piece was pretty heavy and accounted for most of the weight, but I did fill 3 grocery bags full.
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- REI Neabsco Boardwalk clean up REI pulled 850lbs of trash and 4 mattress out of area of Neabsco boardwalk on Oct 5th 2019, from there adopted site.
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- Plogging in Smithfield I nominate friend, jogger and all around good egg Cristin Emrick who picks up litter on a regular basis all around Smithfield. She regularly says, its not her litter, but it is her town. She usually combines her cleanups with some jogging, hence the Swedish custom of plogging.
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- Virginia Zoo ECO-CELL box Thanks to a $1,000 grant from KVB’s “30 in 30 Green Grants”, the Virginia Zoo purchased a secure ECO-CELL cell phone recycling box. Tablets, phones and accessories can be recycled in this box and the minerals in these devices will help protect animal habitats in the African Congo from being mined.
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- Cap Trail Cleanup The Virginia Capital Trail Foundation hosted a Trail-wide cleanup on September 28th. This brought together 75 volunteers who collected 52 bags of trash!
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- Virginia Zoo Eco-Cell box Children recycle old cell phones in the Virginia Zoo’s ECO-CELL box. Tablets, phones and accessories can be recycled in this box and the minerals in these devices will help protect animal habitats in the African Congo from being mined.
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- Long Meadow Road, Water Plant Road Dave Haynes pick up 25 bags of trash, a bale of old fencing, and an old projection screen TV. All picked up on the 13, 14,and 15 of September, 2019.
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- Spring cleaning The Smithfield Va. Wharf Hill Chuggers run club spends many weekends each year keeping our local town beautiful.
