It’s the 6th anniversary of The Great Global Cleanup! Find a cleanup event near you.

Austin Tang — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:15:54 +0000

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Let’s be real: our world is trashed. The average American produces 4.9 pounds of trash per day, which reaches nearly 1,800 pounds of trash per person every year.¹ Far too much of this trash ends up in our natural environment.

Trash that isn’t disposed of properly carries toxic chemicals that contaminate waterways, harm wildlife, and put human health at risk.² But, together, we can help clean it up.

EARTHDAY‍.ORG launched The Great Global Cleanup six years ago to fight for a world where cleanups are no longer necessary. We are still working towards this goal, highlighting the need for policies that hold polluters accountable, focusing on the detrimental effects of plastic production, and protecting human health.

You can be part of the effort by joining a cleanup this spring. Find one near you on our map, or organize and register your own.

FIND A CLEANUP

Less than 10% of our plastic is actually recycled, the rest incinerated, sent to landfills, or ending up in other environments.³ For this reason, and the harmful effects plastic production has on human health, EARTHDAY‍.ORG is demanding a 60% reduction in plastic production by 2040. In the meantime, we are making an effort to clean up all the plastic waste that hasn’t been disposed of properly.

We are getting closer to our goals every day because of people like you. Find a cleanup near you, or register your own to make our planet a better place to live.

See you at the cleanup,

The team at EARTHDAY‍.ORG

Footnotes:

1. Environmental Protection Agency: https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling/national-overview-facts-and-figures-materials

2. Environmental Protection Agency: https://19january2021snapshot.epa.gov/trash-free-waters/impacts-mismanaged-trash_.html

3. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: https://www.oecd.org/environment/plastic-pollution-is-growing-relentlessly-as-waste-management-and-recycling-fall-short.htm

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The Great Global Cleanup

Learn more about cleanups and how to get involved.

Find a Cleanup Near You

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ECOFEST www.ecofest.org celebrates its 24th Anniversary this year.

editor — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:25:30 +0000

www.ecofest.org Launched as an environmental event where people would get information, get involved, find products, learn about services and be entertained by people who care about the environment, ECOFEST started as a visionary effort for a better world. 24 years later it is still going strong supporting environmental causes and issues. ECOFEST is a cultural and educational environmental festival, free to the public, that is organized and produced by the West Side Cultural Center in New York. In its 24 year track record, ECOFEST has developed an unequaled base of public and private sector support and is a mainstay on the New York City calendar of events, bringing thousands of people to the historic NY locations including Central Park, Lincoln Center, The Intrepid Air, Sea and Space Museum, and now at the Solar 1 Space on the East River.

Museum. ECOFEST and its participants benefit from publicity, promotions and extensive advertising, and have always been generously covered by local and national media.

A major focus of ECOFEST is conservation of our natural resources and innovative alternative-energy technologies. This year’s ECOFEST will again feature the SEOTO (Sources of Energy Other Than Oil) Alternative Fuels Display which demonstrates a wide variety of alternative-energy vehicles – ranging from prototypes of solar cars to electric, natural-gas, hybrid, fuel cell and ethanol vehicles already in use by private businesses and many New York City and New York State Agencies. The vehicles stay on display with exciting demonstrations and activities scheduled throughout the day.

In addition to the SEOTO Display, ECOFEST regular features include the ECOFASHION SHOW on the World Solar Stage and the ECOFEST ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE with renowned experts. The ECOFASHION show presents collections made of 100% organic and recycled material and the Conference offers free seminars where key environmental issues are discussed.

Through dynamic exhibits, stimulating entertainment and celebrity performers and speakers ECOFEST fosters public awareness about opportunities for environmental change. It spurs people to take the initiative in making their homes, businesses and communities more ecologically advanced and environmentally sound, while encouraging education, inspiration, activism, membership and volunteering.

Throughout the years ECOFEST has had the support of major environmental organizations such as the New York Zoological Society, The Audubon Society, the United Nations Environmental Program, Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, The Natural Resources Defense Council, Rainforest Alliance, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Council on the Environment. Major corporations and banks, such as General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Volvo, Toyota Motors, Lexus, Nissan, Brita, AT&T, IBM, BFI, Tom’s of Maine, Chase, International Paper; utilities and key government agencies, including the New York City Transit/MTA, NYC DOT, NYCDEP, Consolidated Edison, New York Power Authority, and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey provide support for ECOFEST. The presence of all these enlightened organizations from the public and private sectors are brought together at ECOFEST to offer thousands of New Yorkers a unique opportunity to learn of their environmental message.