The 2022 Great Savannah Cleanup was a success!

On March 26, Keep Savannah Beautiful and the City’s Sanitation Department teamed up with 79 partners (businesses, civic, organizations, schools, neighborhoods, individuals, etc.) for community cleanup as part of the kick-off for the annual Great Savannah Cleanup initiative. These cleanups are a great way to bring everyone together in the spring and fall. Litter and trash were collected on streets, roadways, neighborhood and parks all over the community. Community partners did an awesome job rolling up their sleeves and pitching in to help keep Savannah clean and beautiful!

View photos from the event.

Great Savannah Litter Pickup News Conference Set for Saturday, March 2, 2019

Great Savannah Litter Pickup News Conference. Members of nearly 75 neighborhood associations and civic organizations will roll up their sleeves on Saturday, March 2, and make Savannah shine during the Great Savannah Litter Pickup. The City of Savannah and its partners will celebrate their efforts during a 1 p.m. news conference, and launch the next phase of Keep Savannah Clean, a community-wide anti-litter campaign and enforcement initiative.

Savannah Mayor Eddie DeLoach, Savannah Police Chief Roy Minter, and Parker’s CEO Greg Parker, co-chairman of Keep Savannah Clean, will be among the speakers. The exciting next phase of Keep Savannah Clean will feature television commercials, signs, and billboards featuring Savannah stars, as well as a new Police initiative that will hold litterers accountable for their actions.

Keep Savannah Clean is a public-private collaboration under the umbrella of Keep Savannah Beautiful, focused on reducing litter in Savannah by 50 percent through strategic education, community outreach, and enforcement initiative.

WHEN:

Saturday, March 2, 2019
1 p.m.

WHERE:

Thomas Park – Thomas Square
Drayton and 35th Street
Savannah, Ga.

NOTE TO MEDIA:

Interviews will be available on-site with Savannah Mayor Eddie DeLoach, Savannah Police Chief Roy Minter, Parker’s CEO Greg Parker, and other Keep Savannah Clean representatives.

ABOUT KEEP SAVANNAH CLEAN:

Keep Savannah Clean is a public-private partnership under the umbrella of Keep Savannah Beautiful dedicated to reducing litter in Savannah by 50 percent through education, community outreach and enforcement. The initiative, which originally launched in 2015, is entering the second phase of the campaign with a community-focused, highly visible education campaign. Learn more at www.keepsavannahclean.com. Follow Keep Savannah Clean on Facebook at @KeepSavannahClean, Twitter at @KeepSAVClean and Instagram at @KeepSAVClean.

KEEP SAVANNAH CLEAN SPONSORS:

City of Savannah, Parker’s Companies, Kinder Morgan, Savannah Morning News, Carey Hilliard’s Restaurant, Dulaney Industries, Inc., Foram Group, HunterMaclean, Judge Realty, Kennickell Printing, McDonald’s, Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce, Savannah Downtown Business Association, Savannah Economic Development Authority, Southern Motors Savannah, TitleMax, WTOC, BB&T Bank, Brassler USA, Chatham Orthopaedic Associate, PA, Clear Channel, The Kessler Collection, Envirovac, River Street Sweets, Savannah Tire, Seacrest Partners, Thomas & Hutton, Comcast, Creative Approach and JE Dunn.

500 City Employees to Join in Citywide Litter Pickup Effort

SAVANNAH, GA (February 28, 2019) — Hundreds of City employees will take a break from their normal work to pick up litter throughout Savannah on Friday, complementing the efforts of more than 75 organizations that will participate in Saturday’s Great Savannah Litter Pickup.

The massive anti-litter effort will culminate with a news conference at 1 p.m. Saturday in Thomas Park, next to the Bull Street Library. A new Police litter enforcement initiative, and the next phase of the communitywide anti-litter marketing campaign will also be launched at the event.

Friday’s litter pickup will involve more than 500 employees, who will pick up litter at 33 locations across Savannah. To allow this participation, a number of City services outside public safety will be closed on Friday. Parking Services Offices will be closed, as will Development Services, which includes most permitting and inspections services. While the City’s Golden Age programs will remain open, other community center activities will cease operation.

Police and Fire will have normal operations, as will Recorder’s Court and most Water and Sewer operations. Utility bill payments and processing services will also operate as normal.

City Encourages Enrollment in Great Savannah Litter Pick Up

SAVANNAH, GA (February 5, 2019) — The City of Savannah is encouraging organizations to sign up  for the Great Savannah Litter Pick Up by contacting Carliss Bates at 912-651-6703 or by sending an email to cbates@savannahga.gov.

Residents can participate by partnering with their neighborhood, or their preferred civic organization, to assist with their planned clean up. Residents can also participate in the Adopt-A-Spot program and adopt a street, park or neighborhood. Students can receive community service hours for their participation.

Any civic-minded organizations, such as Garden Clubs, neighborhood organizations, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, church groups, junior or senior high school student councils, Rotary Clubs, etc. can adopt a spot. When adopting a spot, the City will furnish and install an Adopt-a-Spot sign stating the responsible organization provide assistance to remove debris collected at the adoptive site and provide safety vests, gloves and plastic bags to aid in the litter removal activities. Interested organizations can also register online at www.savannahga.gov/adopt-a-spot.

“We encourage all citizens to participate in the Great Savannah Litter Pick Up,” said Outreach Coordinator Carliss Bates.  “It is an opportunity to clean our neighborhoods of unwanted debris and an opportunity to improve our great City.”

The 2019 Great Litter Pick Up is the first event to kick off the Great American Cleanup which is a Keep America Beautiful national initiative that runs from March to May. Keep Savannah Beautiful, the local affiliate of Keep America beautiful, will be providing litter kits to assist neighborhoods with pickups and will collect trash when the collection is completed.

City Collects 152 Tons of Trash During Great Savannah Cleanup

SAVANNAH, GA (June 5, 2018) — The City of Savannah and more than four dozen neighborhood associations joined the Great Savannah Cleanup and removed trash and blight from their neighborhoods during the month of May.  

Fifty Savannah neighborhoods participated in the Great Savannah Cleanup and the City’s Sanitation Department collected more than 152 tons of bulk item trash, including old furniture and appliances, from neighborhoods across the four zones.

Eleven of the 50 neighborhoods also participated in a Saturday “clean sweep” where litter and small trash was targeted by residents and sanitation workers.

Zone 4 was the largest contributor of bulk items with 48 tons.

Director of Sanitation Gene Prevatt said “We are extremely pleased with the participation, we appreciate all the neighborhood associations who coordinated with us to make this a successful event.”

The Great Savannah Cleanup is being held in conjunction with Keep America Beautiful’s 20th Anniversary of the nation-wide Great American Cleanup.