Neighborhood clean sweep and Litter Be Gone

Saturday October 9, 2021

Mark your calendar for Saturday, October 9. You'll have lots of time to clean out your backyards, garages, and basements.  We need you on the day to help pick up the stuff all over the neighborhood. Sign up here to let us know we can count on you.  We'll send a reminder a few days before October 9 to remind you. 

Further information on the PPA Environment Committee page.

The Annual Clean Sweep is sponsored by the Public Works Department of Minneapolis to help clean up tires, concrete, and brush—items that can be a hassle for normal solid waste crews to collect but are important to get to the proper facilities. The Prospect Park Association's clean up involves around 30 volunteers who drive around the neighborhood and collect this material, which is put on the curb by residents.

The clean up takes place throughout Prospect Park Neighborhood, which is officially bordered by Oak Street to the west, the Mississippi River to the south, the border of Minneapolis and Saint Paul to the east, and the rail road tracks to the north.

Litter Be Gone Details

Litter Be Gone is a series of events to clean up litter across Minneapolis each fall. Volunteer to pick up litter in your neighborhood — join a team or collect litter on your own! PPA is hosting a Litter Be Gone clean-up in our neighborhood as part of the Clean Sweep event.

Sponsored by the Office of Off Campus Living and the PPA Environment Committee, Litter Be Gone is a series of events to clean up litter across Minneapolis each fall.  Pick up litter in your street and around your block to help keep our city clean.  Lucky enough to have a squeaky clean block?  The banks of the Mississippi could always use some love, as well as Luxton, Tower Hill and Chergosky Park.  And let's not forget the U of M Transitway.

In 2020, our "Litter Be Gone" happened October 1st - October 10th.
In 2019 All OUR VOLUNTEERS made for a Great CLEAN SWEEP EVENT — THANK YOU!

"Clean Sweep" DETAILS

• Be sure all eligible trash (see the list below) is at your curb before 9 a.m. on Saturday morning. (Each type of truck makes only one sweep down each street.)
• Put each type of eligible trash in a separate pile, easily seen from the street. (If you cover one type of trash with another type, or hide it behind parked cars, it may not be picked up.)
• Only put out eligible trash for pick up at your curbside (see the table below).