Keep Phoenix Beautiful is an affiliate organization of Keep America Beautiful, and every spring we partner with over 1000 other affiliates around the country to present the Great American Cleanup. In 2011, we have been chosen as the national kick-off of this great event. On March 11 & 12, 2011, it all starts in Phoenix!

Our events will include an expo for our national and local sponsors, a dinner honoring our sponsors committment to the environment as well as the participants in our annual Corporate Challenge, and on Saturday, we will be hosting the Corporate Challenge at parks across Phoenix. Please check back often as information becomes available it will be posted here.

Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest community improvement program, takes place annually from March 1 through May 31, involving an estimated 2.8 million volunteers and attendees. The hardworking volunteers donated more than 5.2million hours in 2009 to clean, beautify and improve more than 32,000 communities during more than 30,000 events in all 50 states and beyond. Activities included beautifying parks and recreation areas, cleaning seashores and waterways, handling recycling collections, picking up litter, planting trees and flowers, and conducting educational programs and litter-free events. In 2007, Great American Cleanup volunteers collected 200 million pounds of litter and debris; planted 4.6 million trees, flowers and bulbs; cleaned 178,000 miles or roads, streets and highways; and diverted more than 70.6 million plastic (PET) bottles and more than 2.2 million scrap tires from the waste stream.

For more information on the Great American Cleanup, go to:
http://www.kab.org/site/PageServer?pagename=gaclanding