We need YOU To Help Keep Allentown Beautiful!

Everyone wants to live, work, and play in a clean and green community. It’s up to everyone to help to improve the overall quality of life for us all.

Picking up litter is a simple and easy activity. It is also a great opportunity to bring the community together for the betterment of our blocks, our neighborhoods, and our city.

Through Keep Allentown Beautiful's Community Cleanups initiative, the City of Allentown will provide cleanup tools and resources at no cost to our residents. If you are interested in having a Community Cleanup in your neighborhood, please complete our request form linked below.

Thank you for Keeping Allentown Beautiful!

Sign up HERE  to volunteer

Thank You Volunteers!

Keep Allentown Beautiful would like to extend a HUGE "Thank You" to all of our 2023 Community Cleanup groups and volunteers. From January through November, we have recorded over 650 volunteers who cleaned up nearly 1,500 bags of trash and litter from the streets of Allentown, along with almost 50 tires and numerous TVs, car parts, furniture, and construction debris. These numbers are truly astounding, and we are so so proud of our hardworking and dedicated community members. We are looking forward to keeping Allentown beautiful with you in 2024!

Asbury Church
Bowery Farming
Building 21, Seniors
Clean Earth
COA Employees
Dieruff High School
Franklin Park, with Mikayla Pyatt
Garden City Community
Geodis
Girl Scout Troop 61
LVCleanUp, with Kathy Frederick
Mack Blvd Neighborhood HOA
Muhlenberg College
Old Allentown Preservation Assoc.
Old Fairgrounds Neighborhood Assoc.
Promise Neighborhood of the Lehigh Valley
Raub Middle School Builders Club
Real Recognize Real
Ritter Elementary School (Litter Free School Zone)
St John’s Lutheran Church
Treatment Trends, with Mary Tomlinson
Trexler Middle School
West End Alliance
West End Youth Org. – baseball

City of Allentown employees also work year round to clean up litter!

The Bureau of Recycling and Solid Waste cleans litter and trash from sidewalks, and empties litter baskets.
The Bureau of Streets sweeps streets and collects leaves.
The Bureau of Parks keeps City parks and many other areas clean.
Other City bureaus, such as Health and Code Enforcement, also contribute to cleaning up littered properties and enforce related ordinances.
Lehigh County Juvenile Probation and Allentown Police Department's community service crews provide year-round litter cleanup.