World Cleanup Day 2025

Silver City Pick It Up – Toss No Más is taking part in World Cleanup Day! We are joining forces with volunteers around the world to curb pollution in our neighborhoods and natural areas. Global participation in World Cleanup Day is growing, with over 114 million people from 211 countries and territories joining cleanup events in 2018-2024. Together, we’ve picked up over 708,000 TONS of trash, making our world a cleaner, safer, and more beautiful place to live. This is about more than a few errant plastic bags, it’s a movement to transform the way we manage our human-created waste and decrease our impact on our planet.

Join Pick It Up–Toss No Mas for a community cleanup on Saturday, September 20th. From 9 am – noon, volunteers will work together to clean roads, public spaces, and waterways around Silver City. You can be a part of a global movement to build better habits and safeguard our planet. We’ll see you there!

Volunteers should meet at the Gila Community Foundation parking lot at 1106 North Pope Street, from 9 am to noon on Saturday, August 16th to grab supplies: trash bags, gloves, trash pickers, and snacks. Volunteers will then return to the parking lot to drop off all litter and debris between 11am and noon. We’ll have cold water, donuts, and music for volunteers!

Volunteers should bring a water bottle and wear closed-toe shoes, a sun hat, and sunscreen. Children 17 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Families with younger children are encouraged to clean up litter in their neighborhood, local parks or waterways as children under 12 are not permitted on state highways for the cleanup. 

Thank you to our partners at the New Mexico Department of Transportation for hauling away collected trash to the landfill!

Check out the Pick It Up-Toss No Mas website www.silvercitytossnomas.org to sign up to volunteer and to learn about litter prevention opportunities, the business pledge program, Adopt-A-Roadway or Waterway program, and solid waste disposal and recycling resources. 

Volunteers are the foundation of the Pick It Up – Toss No Mas program. Since October 2021, over 1,019 volunteers have picked up over 31,992 pounds of trash, debris, and recyclables from Highways 180 and 90, Silver City neighborhoods, Big Ditch Park, San Vicente Creek, Pinos Altos Creek, and other urban riparian areas.

Thank you to each and every one of our volunteers, organizations, and partners who do all this work! We are incredibly thankful for the amazing monthly turnouts and support in our collective effort to keep Silver City clean and beautiful.

Monthly Pick It Up – Toss No Mas clean-up events are held the third Saturday of every month. Community members can also adopt a roadway or waterway to take care of and clean up throughout the year. On top of that, Pick It Up – Toss No Mas can provide guidance for those who would like to put on their own clean up event, helping to supply the trash pickers, trash bags and gloves for your event.

Pick It Up – Toss No Mas community cleanup events are sponsored by the Town of Silver City, New Mexico Clean and Beautiful, Silver City Watershed Keepers, Silver City Recycles, Silver City MainStreet, SWNMACT, Southwest Solid Waste Authority, Silver City-Grant County Chamber of Commerce, and New Mexico Department of Transportation’s Que Linda Program.

More information for the event can be found at silvercitytossnomas.org or contact Alesia Hallmark at 575-538-8078 or via email at [email protected]