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Climate & SustainabilityAction

Street Sweep

Part of: The Wavemakers

Host your own Street Sweep and do your part to keep your streets and streams clean.

1 - 3 hours

Volunteer credits

Waves of Change

Your Street Sweep action keeps trash out of storm drains and helps protect rivers and oceans.

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When trash and pollutants, like plastic bags, food wrappers, cigarette butts, and other discarded items are left on streets or in public areas, they often get washed into storm drains during rain. These storm drains usually lead directly to local rivers, lakes, oceans and other waterways. Also known as stormwater runoff, it is one of the leading causes of water pollution in our communities.

We need you to do something to protect waterways right now!

Join us by organizing a Street Sweep event with your own Sweep Squad, or join a community cleanup hosted by other DoSomething members, to collectively remove trash before it enters our waterways.

↪Then be sure to check out The Sweep Spot, your go-to interactive map, to keep track of all the Sweep Squads and their impactful Street Sweep cleanups taking place across the country.

By participating in Street Sweep, you’ll earn 10 volunteer credit hours.

Host a Street Sweep cleanup, you can go solo, or register your own cleanup, register for an upcoming DoSomething cleanup event in your area, or join cleanup events hosted by other DoSomething members.

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