As Soon As Possible
- Call Clean It Up, Green It Up at (904) 630-3420 for planning assistance and support materials and Neighborhood Cleanup Planning Kit. Volunteers must clean several blocks of public right-of-way in order to qualify for these services.

- Talk with your neighbors and businesses to create an interest, define the area to be cleaned and seek participation. Choose site captains to coordinate event and assign specific responsibilities.

- Do you want to promote your cleanup with flyers? If so, call us several weeks before so we can personalize and print your flyers. Not enough time? You may print the flyer included in the kit, fill out the details and prepare your own copies.

At Least Two Weeks Before Your Planned Cleanup Date
- Pick a spot and write down the location of appliances, tires and yard waste to prepare for the special disposal and separate curbside placement needs of these items.

- Decide where you will place bags of collected material. Write down the block number on the nearest street sign or a house number to request service and identify site.

- Ask for some volunteers to take a leadership role as site captains.

- Set a date and time to clean it up (consider an alternate rain date). Call our office as soon as you decide on the location, date and time of the cleanup event. We will need the name, address and phone number of the organization, person calling and the planned location of collected materials.

- Distribute flyers to advertise the event, solicit volunteers and inform interested parties about the time, date and location of the meeting place. Be sure to include a contact person, phone number and consider a rain date.

- If the collected trash cannot be disposed of through your regular scheduled garbage pick-up, call Clean It Up, Green It Up at (904) 630-3420 to pre-arrange special waste hauling. At least one week in advance, you will need to call us with either the block number on the nearest street sign or a house number. We cannot order trash pick-up service without that information provided in advance.

- Notify churches, youth groups, civic organizations, school, the news media and area businesses to ask for their support and participation.

- Ask local businesses to participate by providing permission to use their dumpster for disposal, display an event flyer in a prominent place, donate refreshments or other items and encourage employees to volunteer.

- If site is not public land, get permission from property owner(s).

One Week to Two Days Before
- Pick up support materials such as bags, gloves and safety vests from Clean It Up, Green It up.

- Assign responsibilities and delegate tasks to volunteers.

- Have site captains review procedures for placement of collected material.

Cleanup Day and After You Finish
- Have fun and enjoy the satisfaction of improving your community. Consider taking before and after photos, notifying the press and community police officers if you want their support, having a party, keeping an event diary for planning future events and sending thank you notes to volunteers.

- Take sign-in sheets and a pen or pencil to enter name, address and telephone numbers of volunteers, to check volunteers in and out and encourage safe cleanup practices.

- Have water or other beverages for volunteers and review safety tips.

- Please remember to return vests, coolers, can catchers, boat hooks, rakes or other items borrowed from the Clean It Up, Green It Up office. Call our office at (904) 630-3420 to provide results to Clean It Up, Green It Up. We need to know the number of volunteers, hours worked, how many tires and bags of litter were collected.  You may also submit your results online.

You may request a Neighborhood Cleanup Planning Kit by calling Clean It Up, Green It Up at (904) 630-3420.