Cleanup programmers to be held across U.S. on National Day of Action

At least 10,000 volunteers are expected to be called into action Saturday to clean up humanity’s home — planet Earth.

“The nation’s largest community improvement movement,” as the volunteer groups are known, will be getting their hands dirty and feet wet as they clean walkways and waterways around the United States.

Keep America Beautiful — the nonprofit group that is sponsoring the Great American Cleanup “National Day of Action” — has organized trash-clearing activities in nearly all 50 states, as well as special large-scale events in 10 locales.

These latter sites are Oakland, California; Los Angeles; Cocoa, Florida; Indianapolis; Cobb County, Georgia; Hampton Roads, Virginia; Houston; Shreveport, Louisiana; Philadelphia; and Nashville.

Volunteers around the country will spend the day outdoors picking up litter, planting trees and making other improvements to the natural world.

Tidying up the country isn’t a matter of just “waving a magic wand,” said Gale Cunningham, senior vice president of Keep America Beautiful and managing director of the Great American Cleanup. “It’s understanding each person can make a difference.”

“Each volunteer for one hour of work is worth $21.79, and we had 5.2 million volunteers last year” during a period from March 1 to May 1,” he added. “The United States saved $113 million last year that would have otherwise paid government employees.”

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