2021 Great american Clean-up
april 24th, 2021
please note that there will be no pick-up location. all supplies will be delivered the week of april 19th
The Great American Cleanup® is the nation’s largest community improvement program, engaging, on average, more than 3 million volunteers and participants every year to create positive change and lasting impact in local communities.
Keep Peoria Beautiful has been hosting The Great American Cleanup® for over 20 years. Throughout the years we have collected over 447 tons of garbage and yard waste, 12,500 unwanted tires, and 108 tons of electronic waste as well as batteries and light bulbs.
Please feel free to email any questions you may have to keeppeoriabeautiful@gmail.com.
Help Keep Peoria clean, green and beautiful by volunteering at next year's cleanup.
Your business or organization is invited to be part of the nation’s largest annual community improvement event. Join with friends, neighbors, classmates and colleagues for this citywide litter pickup. It’s a little work and lot of fun!
How can I help?
Recruit a team of volunteers from your organization
Identify an area in need of cleaning up. It might be your neighborhood, a street or alley, a local park, a parking lot near your business. Notify us of your target area by returning the registration form by April 16, 2021. Download the registration form here.
Supplies will be delivered the week of April 19th—trash bags, yard waste bags and gloves
Head to your location and start the cleanup. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, please follow all CDC Guidelines and Recommendations. We strongly encourage everyone to wear their mask and following social distancing guidelines.
Put landscape waste in the paper yard waste bags, not the plastic garbage bag
Disposal - please put trash/litter and landscape waste with your weekly garbage pick up
Unwanted tires - the Tireless project will hold its monthly collection of unwanted tires at the Great American Cleanup. First 10 tires are free - $1.00 charge for every tire over 10. Total limit is 20 tires per customer. Neighborhood groups need to register with James via email at JIMAX.JKosner@gmail.com to receive a numbered window paper and neighborhood location tire collection form. Only City of Peoria residents can participate - no businesses allowed. Customers must show ID in the form of a Driver's License, State ID or property tax statement. No tires with rims will be accepted. Only passenger and truck tires 17" or less. No oversize tires, including agricultural and commercial. For more information, contact James Kosner at 309-253-0192.
Report your collection—very important! Please let us know how many bags of litter your team collected. We need your results for our records. Call us at (309) 672-6288 or email us keeppeoriabeautiful@gmail.com.
Rain date/alternate date
In case of rain, you may complete your cleanup anytime during the week of April 26. Please report results.
