Urban Cleanup Team - New Jersey Clean Communities



Clean Communities Council Activities

Urban Cleanup Team

The Clean Communities Council in the fall of 2003 developed a program called the Urban Cleanup Team to aid cities that may have an excessive accumulation of litter due to dense populations. The premise that our cities show an excessive accumulation of litter was substantiated by a Litter Survey, funded by the Clean Communities Council and released in the spring of 2004.

To be a member of the Urban Cleanup Team, a city must organize a citywide cleanup, involving support from the county in which the city is located, the mayor and public officials, businesses, community organizations, schools and individuals. The cleanup is a partnership with the Clean Communities Council, in which the city provides supplies and manpower for the cleanup and the Council provides assistance with advertising and promotion. The Council also asks that the city carry out a comprehensive litter abatement program and file a statistical report each year. Urban Cleanup Team members cities include, but are not limited to, Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Bayonne, Camden, Clifton, East Orange, Elizabeth, Garfield, Hackensack, Irvington, Jersey City, New Brunswick, Newark, Paterson, and Trenton. The City of Newark was the first Urban Cleanup Team city with a premier event in October 3002, called Gateway to a Cleaner Community citywide cleanup. Newark’s cleanup was modeled after the Trenton Litter March, a cleanup which has been held in Trenton every year since 1989.For more information and calendar of events, see .

Kids for Clean Communities-Clean Teens

Kids for Clean Communities-Clean Teens is a program designed especially for people under the ages of eighteen who have helped to make New Jersey cleaner and encouraged the proper handling of solid waste. Student and youth groups must implement an educational project in order to qualify for membership. The Clean Communities Council hosts a seminar and awards program for youth groups in conjunction with the Annual Seminar & Awards Banquet. Approximately 300 children and adults participate in the awards program every year. Kids for Clean Communities complements the Council’s mission of changing the attitudes that cause littering and the improper handling of solid waste through education.

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