Connecticut Cleanup
What is the Connecticut Cleanup?
The CT Cleanup is a state-wide effort hosted by Cleanup Captains,
Connecticut residents passionate about keeping our parks, rivers, and
beaches clean. Save the Sound supports each Cleanup Captain
through event planning, training, and volunteer recruitment. We also
provide all of the materials you need to cleanup a natural space of your
choice.
But we deserve clean spaces every day. Recognizing
this, we expanded the International Coastal Cleanup Day in Connecticut
into a weekend, then a month, then a full year of organized cleanups.
With the support from cleanup captains, volunteers, and sponsors, our CT
Cleanup program is now nearly year-round. In the Spring, we host our
corporate cleanups, reserved for sponsor companies and their employees
as team-building events. In the fall, we host our community-based and
public cleanups open to all Connecticut residents and visitors. There's a
cleanup for everyone and there's always trash to pick up.
Save the Sound
has hosted the cleanups in Connecticut as part of Ocean Conservancy's
International Coastal Cleanup for over 20 years. The global event, which
occurs on International Coastal Cleanup Day in mid-September, has
motivated over 11.5 million people around the world to pick up over 210
million pounds of trash from nearly 390,000 miles of shoreline.
How Does the Connecticut Cleanup Impact Our State?
At each cleanup event, we keep track of the trash we pick up. By
using the Clean Swell app or tallying trash type and number on paper
worksheets, our volunteers help us determine the most common and
strangest types of trash we collect. The data shows changes in pollution
trends over time and the larger impact volunteers are making across the
globe.
We summarize six years of trash data in
our first ever Connecticut Cleanup Report, and the numbers were
shocking! The data indicate that cigarette butts, food wrappers, and
small plastic pieces have been the top three most common trash types for
the past six years. The data also show Styrofoam and balloons as
persistent trash types on the ground and in the Sound. On average, Save the Sound volunteers collect over 100 pieces of Styrofoam trash at each cleanup and over 400 Mylar or rubber balloons each year.
What Can You Do to Help?
That's why Save the Sound
works to stop litter at its source by organizing the Connecticut
Cleanup each year to keep trash away from wildlife and out of the waters
where you fish and swim. In the past six years alone, our volunteers
have picked up over half a million pieces of trash from Connecticut's
beaches, parks, and rivers, protecting countless creatures and
communities. Join the cleanup to help us continue this effort and stop
trash in its tracks.
 
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