Cleanup Cup
Intention: Bring this community action project to your city to begin cleaning up the area and building intentional community together!
We want to live in a world where trash on the Earth is ABNORMAL. By seeing other people in the community doing this work, it has huge ripples!
What is a Cleanup Cup?
A community action project designed to help you cleanup your city, build community and take intention action.
This project has been created to be easily duplicated to your city’s needs! You will need a facilitator who is committed to hosting the project and we hand you everything else you need!
Upon request, all the digital documentation and forms are sent to you to make it simple to integrate into your home town. Everything else, you get to decide how to make it your own in order to fit the needs of your community.
Check out the videos on our Youtube channel to learn more and get inspired!
Don’t have the bandwidth to host an entire cleanup cup? That’s okay! We have another option for you 🤗
Our recommendation is to start hosting a cleanup crew. This is simple. Pick a time and place to host the cleanup and send out the information to your network to show up to help.
Ask people to bring their own work gloves and bags to add an extra layer of simplicity. We have found a lot of success in asking the local thrift stores for trash bag donations. Thrift stores are a great place to find BBQ tongs to use as a trash grabber!
In Longmont, CO the first annual Cleanup Cup held in 2025 collected over 230lbs of waste from the streets & parks of the city!
7 cleanup crews, 25 volunteers, and countless minutes generously given to the betterment of our city.
You can make an impact on your city and help create new social norms around trash!!
The time is NOW to take action together 💪
Other ways to take action in your neighborhood around waste:
ADOPT A TRASH CAN
Intention: Handing the responsibility to the residents who live in the area to tend to the cleanliness of the space. To live in a world where trash on the Earth is ABNORMAL.
✨Install your own trash can in your area. This can be any vessel that is able to hold a trash bag. We recommend using something recycled. Once installed, it will be your responsibility to upkeep the can. We recommend bag changes every 1-2 weeks depending on usage.
✨ Go for a trash walk. Grab a bag, gloves, and a attitude of service to simply walk your neighborhood and collect garbage.
Make it FUN: Get a group together, involve your kids, play music as you walk. Cleaning up the Earth gets to be a good time!
✨ Install posters in your neighborhood to encourage others to clean up after themselves.
Ways to get involved:
Why get involved?
Unfortunately, our world has normalized trashing the planet. This is sad. We have the power to change the way we interact with waste.
Starting to change the social norms in our own backyard gives us a sense of accomplishment. It helps us see the direct effect to our time and efforts we are putting into the community.
Creating a cleaner space for yourself and community has a rippling effect on the whole!
It is time for us to create a new norm around garbage on the Earth. If you see MOOP (matter out of place), pick it up! Let’s live in a world where trash on our Earth is abnormal.