Clean & Green: Elevate the Scene Fall Clean-Up Event

Let’s get ready to clean, green, and elevate Prince George’s County! Grab your supplies and join friends, neighbors, community groups, and volunteers for Clean & Green: Elevate the Scene – the first community-wide beautification effort of County Executive Aisha Braveboy’s administration. This day is about more than more than beautification, it’s about bringing communities together to have a great time and create spaces we can all be proud of. Mark your calendars and join this exciting opportunity to strengthen community pride and ELEVATE Prince George’s County!

Fall 2025 Program: October 25, 2025

Registration Deadline: October 17, 2025

Download our flyers and spread the word:

Clean & Green: Elevate the Scene Fall 2025 English Flyer

Clean & Green: Elevate the Scene Fall 2025 Spanish Flyer

Message from the County Executive

Dear Prince Georgians:

Cleaning up our County has been a top priority for me! Your support of the work we’re doing has been amazing. Our initial focus began with the Countywide Litter and Beautification Blitz in June. That kickoff launched “Project Elevate” and while the Blitz continued, we followed up with Strike Force 3-1-1 to address long-standing service requests in PGC311 system.

As the lovely Fall season approaches in beautiful Prince George’s County, I’m asking you to join me in our Annual Fall Cleanup and Planting event! We’re calling it "Clean & Green: Elevate the Scene”.

Please join us on Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. for a fabulous fun day focused on sprucing up our neighborhoods by spreading mulch, cleaning up litter, and tackling illegal dumping. It’s a beautiful time of year to come together, roll up our sleeves, and have fun together by making our county clean and green.

The Department of Public Works and Transportation (DPW&T) will provide everything we’ll need in the way of supplies – garbage bags, gloves, safety vests, litter grabbers, and mulch for everyone who volunteers. Join us solo, bring a friend or family member, or come as a group.

Sign up now! Fill out the registration form on our website: http://MyPGC.us/CleanAndGreen. Remember, if you’re volunteering with a group, be sure to include your organization’s name, mailing address, how many people you expect to join your group, along with the areas where you intend to plant or clean up.

Registration deadline is Friday, October 17, 2025. Thanks for being ready to pitch in and help for the Fall 2025 "Clean & Green: Elevate the Scene" community beautification event.

Together, I know we can make Prince George’s County the cleanest greenest scene in Maryland.

I’ll be there and I look forward to seeing you and your friends, family and neighbors. Thanks for caring about our community!

Sincerely,

Aisha N. Braveboy
Prince George’s County Executive

Important Dates

Application Deadline: October 17, 2025

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PGCLitterTRAK Trainings

Sign up for one of the upcoming training sessions to get ready for the fall Growing Green with Pride event, on October 25, 2025!

All sessions are being held virtually, at 6 p.m. on the following dates:

September 30th
October 7th
October 14th
October 21st

After registering for Growing Green with Pride, you will be guided to the PGCLitterTRAK signup page to select the training date of your choice.

Learn more about PGCLitterTRAK!

SOURCE REDUCTION TIP: Instead of landfilling food scraps, please compost!

Supplies

Your group will be provided with gloves, trash bags, litter grabbers, and safety vests. Please leave your filled trash bags along the curbside of the roadways you identify to be cleaned. The Department of Public Works and Transportation will pick up the trash bags.

Mulch (6 max)

Litter Supply Pickup Dates

Wednesday, October 22 ............................................................... 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursday, October 23 - Friday, October 24 ................................... 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday, October 25 ................................................................... 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Please return all litter grabbers, safety vests, and any unused litter supplies on the scheduled drop-off date provided in your registration confirmation to the Office of Highway Maintenance, Special Services Division, 8400 D'Arcy Road, Forestville, MD 20774. To ensure proper tracking, do not return items outside of your assigned drop-off date.

Plant Material and Mulch Pickup Dates

View our plant list to see photos and descriptions of the plants available for pick-up.

Monday - Friday, October 20 - 24 ................................................. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Wednesday, October 22 ................................................................ 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 25 .................................................................... 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Plant material for HOA, Civic Associations, Churches, Private and Charter Schools are available for pickup at:

DPW&T Maintenance Facility, 8400 D'Arcy, Forestville, MD 20747

Plant materials for Prince George's County Public Schools will be delivered by the school's maintenance operations.

Plant material for municipalities are available for pickup at:

M-NCPPC - Randall Farm Maintenance Facility, 4200 Ritchie Marlboro Road, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772

Planting Workshop attendance is REQUIRED for planting materials requests. The workshops will be held on the following dates (please choose from one of the workshops on the application):

Thursday, October 16 @ 6pm: Bladensburg Waterfront Park | 4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg, Maryland 20710
Thursday, October 21 @ 6pm: Tucker Road Ice Rink (Playground in back) | 1770 Tucker Road, Fort Washington, Maryland 20744
Thursday, October 23 @ 6pm: Prince George's County Government Office (Visitor parking lot area) | 9400 Peppercorn Place, Largo, Maryland 20774

Volunteers

Required Permission Slips

All participants under the age of 18 must bring a signed permission slip to participate in the day's event. Please coordinate with your parent or guardian to have this completed, printed, and signed.

Community Service Hours

Prince George's County Public Schools students who would like to earn service-learning hours by volunteering at the community clean-up must request group information from their school's guidance office.

Students must have their service-learning hours form signed by the cleanup coordinator at their assigned group/community cleanup site. Download the service-learning hours form, print and turn in to your cleanup coordinator for signatures on the clean-up day.