Projects and Programs

Great American Cleanup 2010

Organized by Keep America Beautiful, the Great American Cleanup is the nation’s largest community improvement program and takes place annually from March 1 through May 31. In the Blackstone Valley, activities for this year’s Great American Cleanup include beautifying parks and recreation areas, cleaning waterways, organizing recycling collections, picking up litter, planting flowers and trees and conducting educational programs. We hope you will join us to make this year’s Great American Cleanup the biggest and best yet!

View 2010 Schedule

To volunteer or participate in an event, please contact Matt DeMello at 401-724-2200 or mdemello@wndc.org. You may search for events by date or by location.

Blackstone Valley 2008 Great American Cleanup Results

This year’s Great American Cleanup was a great success, with more than 900 volunteers donating 2,328 hours over 26 events throughout the 9 cities and towns in Rhode Island’s Blackstone Valley. These hardworking volunteers collected 63,273 pounds of trash along 84 miles of road, river and shoreline, and hiking and biking trails and recycled 3,212 tires and 62,500 pounds of electronics, a record for the Keep Blackstone Valley Beautiful program.

Volunteers also participated in a variety of beautification projects, such as planting 550 flowers, painting a large-scale mural in a playground, restoring community buildings, and creating new gardens and greenspaces.

Congratulations to everyone that participated; together we are truly keeping Blackstone Valley beautiful. I hope to see you all during the 2009 Great American Cleanup!

  • Under this put 2007 GAC Cleanup Results, which are currently at the bottom of the page

  • And under that, add 2006 GAC Cleanup Results:

Blackstone Valley 2007 Great American Cleanup Results

Over 1,000 volunteers, spent 3,300 hours, collecting 120 tons of trash, along 85 miles of roads, river and shoreline, and hiking and biking trails.

Five beautification projects were completed, four community and commercial buildings were improved, 350 acres of public land, wetlands, and parks were cleaned and improved.

Beautification was apparent with 485 flowers and 700 new trees being planted.

Great job to everyone that participated we look forward to making the 2008 Great American Cleanup even more successful!

Blackstone Valley 2006 Great American Cleanup Results

It is amazing what 1,236 volunteers can do! Under this year’s Great American Cleanup, these volunteers donated 4,247 hours of their time and cleaned up 47,600 pounds of trash along 61 miles of road, river and shoreline, and hiking and biking trails and 224 acres of wetlands and public land and parks. They recycled 3,576 tires and 20,433 pounds of electronics, planted 60 flowers and 9 trees, and undertook 6 community beautification projects.

  • Should we have a link at the bottom to archive the 2008 GAC dates and information? I think it is too confusing if all of that is on the same page.

  • At the bottom of the GAC page, the “2007 Event Info” page doesn’t exist.

See Tire Round Up Event Info | See E-Waste and Recycling Event Info

2008 Calendar

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