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Thank you to all our amazing volunteers! 

You keep the Charles clean.

On Saturday, April 27 approximately 4,000 volunteers and community leaders joined forces to clean the banks of the 80-mile Charles River at the 14th Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup. In a collaboration led by Charles River Watershed Association, volunteers from over 20 towns worked together to remove litter and debris, and beautify the Charles River and its surrounding parklands in one of the nation’s largest one-day river cleanup events! Volunteers removed an estimated 5 tons of trash from sites throughout the Charles River watershed from Milford to Boston. 

The Earth Day Charles River Cleanup provides volunteers an opportunity to serve their communities and engage in stewardship of the river and its parklands. This year, the Cleanup provided a meaningful conclusion to National Volunteer Week, which ran from April 21st to April 27th.  

Since 2000, the Charles River Watershed Association has coordinated the Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup each April with a collaborative of other non-profit organizations. The Cleanup involves volunteers picking up trash at over 100 different cleanup sites along the Charles River and its tributaries. Volunteers participate as part of more than 100 different neighborhood, school, religious, and corporate groups, as well as individually. Our volunteers remove trash and debris (including television sets, bicycles, Styrofoam cups, and plastic bags) located in the river and on its banks at 100 sites along the 80-mile river. At last year’s event, we estimate that we removed 50 tons of litter, making the Charles River cleaner, healthier, and more beautiful! The Charles River Cleanup is organized by a collaborative of groups interested in keeping the river and our communities clean and healthy, including Charles River Watershed Association, Charles River Conservancy, The Esplanade Association, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Green Decade Newton, Senator Brownsberger’s Office, Waltham Land Trust and MA Department of Conservation and Recreation. 

The 14th Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup is a part of the American Rivers National River Cleanup.

Cleanup Organizers & Partners

Will Brownsberger State Senator

2013 Cleanup Sponsors

Thank you to all of our amazing cleanup sponsors. This event would not be possible without them.

	Cleanup Major Sponsors:
	Cleanup Supporters:
	Cleanup Friends: Boston Marriott Newton Hotel Cambridge Biomedical, Inc. Charlesgate Yacht Club Inc. Charles River Apparel Charles River Bank Knucklebones Spaulding Rehabilitation Network Stop and Shop, New England Division Swartz Hardware The Trustees of Reservations White Corporation Watertown Community Foundation
	Picnic Friends: Shaw's Allston Shaw's Waltham SUBWAY® Restaurants, Newton Super Stop and Shop Watertown Trader Joe's Arlington Trader Joe's Cambridge

2013 Participants

Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers who will participate in the 2013 Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup! Volunteer groups include:

2012 Cleanup