Team Up to Clean Up

Register for Team Up to Clean Up
Organize a team of volunteers to clean an area in your neighbourhood. The program provides volunteers with gloves, recycling and garbage bags.
Team Up to Clean Up is a year-round city-wide community cleanup program. This program provides all the tools you need to run a community cleanup including gloves, recycling bags and specially marked garbage bags. Approximately 25,000 volunteers participate in Team Up to Clean Up each year and invest more than 45,000 volunteer hours to help clean our community.
The program helps keep public places in your neighbourhood clean and safe for everyone. You can host a cleanup event on City property including parks, trails, alleyways, streets and parking lots.
Our Community Partners
The City of Hamilton supports local community groups and organizations that help keep Hamilton clean and green. These groups organize regular cleanups that are open to the public to participate. Contact any of these groups to join one of their cleanup teams or participate in a one-time cleanup:
- Beautiful Alleys www.beautifulalleys.ca
- The Escarpment Project escarpmentproject.ca
To add your group to this list, contact [email protected]

Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
The City of Hamilton is an official ‘Clean Shoreline Community’ with the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, a conservation partnership by Ocean Wise and WWF-Canada. You can help keep Hamilton’s shoreline litter free by cleaning up any area where land connects to water, including lakes, rivers, streams and even parks or schoolyards (near storm drains). Since 1994, there have been 19,400 cleanups that have collected more than 1.2 million kg of trash across Canada’s shorelines. Register your Team Up to Clean Up event with the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup to be a part of the national movement to keep our shorelines clean!
Clean Canada Together
In 2017, Canada celebrated the 150th anniversary of Confederation. To recognize this milestone year, ten communities and regions proudly participated in a simple initiative dubbed #CleanCanadaTogether. To date, over 305,000 participants across Canada have collected over 690 TONNES of litter! The City of Hamilton is a partner in #CleanCanadaTogether - join us to be part of the goal of a cleaner Canada!