Big Spring Clean is a citywide initiative to create a cleaner and more sustainable city for all New Yorkers.
April 22 (Earth Day!) through the end of May, 2025
This spring, the Sanitation Foundation invites you to roll up your sleeves and make a difference. Join our school, corporate, and volunteer partners in sprucing up streets and spaces across all five boroughs.
Let’s celebrate Earth Month together—host or participate in a cleanup event and help create a cleaner, greener New York City.
Community Groups
Become a member of our Community Stewards network of neighborhood cleanup groups caring for their corner of the city. Last year, we worked hand-in-hand with 40+ community groups across all 5 boroughs to turbocharge their cleanups with tool grants, support, and access to our Volunteer Hub to help drive participation.
Join our Community Stewards network and host an event in your neighborhood
Apply for a tool grant and equip your group to host a cleanup
Individuals
Join a cleanup event and work with your community to clean and beautify your neighborhood. In 2024 we had 4,700 volunteers across the city clear over 5,000 pounds of litter making New York City a cleaner place.
Sign up for a neighborhood cleanup event on our Volunteer Hub
Join Adopt Your Spot and pledge to care for a special spot on your schedule
Schools + Afterschool Programs
Activate your classroom with our facilitator guides to learn about sustainability and waste diversion practices. Then dive deeper with tool grants and support to lead a cleanup near your school. In 2024, we led and supported 50+ cleanups throughout NYC public schools.
Corporate
Sponsor a cleanup in the community or engage your team in a cleanup event! Last year, over a dozen businesses and non-profits partnered with us to sponsor cleanups or support their employees who stepped up to volunteer in communities across the city.
Support a Big Spring Clean event or organize one for your team
Stay tuned for our 2025 events!
THANK YOU TO OUR 2024 PARTNERS
We are so proud to host NYC Big Spring Clean with the support from our incredible partners.
Bloomberg
Société Générale
Target
Association for a Better New York (ABNY)
International Center of Photography
NYC Service
2024 COMMUNITY HEROES
34th Avenue Open Streets Coalition
77th PCT Community Council, Inc.
Bed-Stuy Clean Ups
Beyond Plastics Queens
BQE Clean Up
Brooklyn New Lots Lions Club
Brooklyn Public School 9 PTO
CCNY GreenCentral x South East Brooklyn CDC
Clean Up Kensington
Clinton Hill Fort Greene Mutual Aid
Columbia University College of Dental Medicine Sustainability Club
Community Bridges to Success Incorporated
Friends of Tompkins Square Park
Inwood Merchant Association
Lex and 3rd Block Association
Macon Lewis Marcus Garvey Block Association
Malcolm X Boulevard Beautification Group
Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board
Nasty New Yorkers
Natural Resources Protective Association
NSTAT TEAM BROWNSVILLE / VAN DYKE HOUSES
NYC CLEAN Volunteers
NYC H2O
O.W.N. Club
Quincy St. Nostrand Marcy Block Association
Ridgewood Is Beautiful
Ridgewood Runners
Rosedale Preservation Society
Santana & Vargas Charities Inc
St. George Civic Association
St. Vartan Park Conservancy
Sunnyside Social
Team Rubicon
The Groundskeeper Club
The Mission Continues
Uptown Grand Central
We Run Uptown
West 30th Street Block Association