City Cleanup & Habitat Restoration Events

The City's Environmental Services Division regularly offers the following volunteer opportunities:

• Park cleanup events
• Creek cleanup events
• Habitat restoration events

Sign up to receive email notifications when these opportunities become available.

Register online for current/upcoming opportunities.

Students can earn community service hours for participating in these events.

Additional information and resources:

• Creek Cleanup FAQs
• Habitat Restoration FAQs
• Service Hours Verification FAQs
• City Resources Sheet
• Current/Upcoming Environmental Services Volunteer Opportunities
• Coastal Cleanup Day City Webpage

Do-It-Yourself Cleanup

Clean up your neighborhood, parks, and local area any time. Trash from inland areas flows downstream to the coast, so cleaning up neighborhood trash prevents marine debris.

• Gather cleanup supplies from home.
  • Gather grocery bags or buckets for trash.
  • Use kitchen tongs as pickers.
  • Use milk jugs to collect small pieces of trash.
• Download the Clean Swell app to count your trash and to have your trash counted! Report your cleanup by recording data on the Clean Swell app. Learn why data collection is important.
• Clean on your own time.