Our First Annual Fall Cleanup

The Anti-Litter Committee announces it's first annual fall clean-up to be held at Riverview Park on Saturday, September 30 from 8:30 - 10:30 am. Meet at the playground on the north end of the park, located near the intersection of CT 110 (Howe Ave) and Wheeler Street. (See Google map for driving directions). We will have garbage bags.

Riverview Park. The Bluff Walk is the black dashed line. 

This cleanup is open to all, no registration required. While the Parks Department does pick up the manicured areas you can see from Howe Avenue, there is a wooded slope going down to the river with a walking path called "The Bluff Walk" that was built over 100 years ago. Litter tends to blow in from Rt 110 down the hill and collect along the slope. The trail is about half a mile long.

Shelton's First Park and oldest walking path

We have a few extra 2017 Clean Sweep Patches leftover and these will be given away to participants first come first serve. Hope to see you there.

Clean Sweep 2017

The "Plavec Group" in Huntington Woods

People across Shelton hit the streets, parks, schools, and waterways for the 10th annual Shelton Clean Sweep, held the week of Earth Day (April 22). There were twenty-five registered cleanups around town and many more that were not registered. Many thanks to everyone involved!

Girl Scout Troop 60672 cleaned up Mohegan School

It's hard to believe the first Shelton Clean Sweep was ten years ago, and the 10-year old kids who participated are now adults. We hope the participation of so many kids will foster an appreciation of litter-free parks and streets in future generations.

Tighe & Bond employees cleaned up Isinglass Road.

We encourage people to report their cleanups, although it seems most people would prefer not to. The 'report a clean-up' form is for all litter cleanups across Shelton, not just for Clean Sweep, and helps us determine how much is getting picked up. The link to report is easy to find on the DontTrashShelton.org webpage, on the left margin. Seventeen cleanups involving 122 people were reported via this link during the Clean Sweep 2017 period:

Shelton High Period 2 Civics Class	Shelton High School front area	4 medium sized bags	14
Sheri Dutkanicz	Nells Rock Road	1 large bag	1
Pack 24 - Booth Hill School	Booth Hill School	14 plastic shopping bags	14
GS troop 60672	Mohegan school	1/2 of a large bag	11 7 year olds
The Pastores	Seneca Road	One large bag and a load of Jack Daniels bottles	3
Stusalitus Family	Canfield Drive open space along roadside	1 small tire, 1 ice chest, 3 large bags mostly liquor bottles & fast food trash	3
Girl Scout Troop 60294	Cali Drive	1 large bag and 1 small bag	10
Carreira Family	Regan Circle, Wooster Street	2 large bags	4
Boy Scout Troop 28	Shelton Lakes Path	6 tires, vinyl siding, part of a large tractor, a furnace, 2 air conditioners, a car transmission, front and back seat of an old car, 10 additional bags of garbage	24
Plavec Group	Balsam Circle, Wesley Drive and Shelton Rec Path Parallel	One large 42 gal trash bag	3
Tighe & Bond	Isinglass Road at the intersection of Huntington Street	15 Large Bags, tire, car parts	4
Gil Pastore	Farmill River from Yutaka Trail to Farmill Crossing	4 large bags & beach ball	3
MOMS Club of Shelton	Riverview Park, surrounding play area.	3 large bags	5
Mikayla Wsilewski/Janie Hulton	Wabuda. Rt108	4 large bags	2
Daisy Troop 60396	Shelton High School	10 bags- filled as much as a Daisy could carry! :) (about 1/2 filled)	18
Devin Mitola	Sunnyside Elementary	1 large garbage bag	2
Fernando Alves	Area around interesection of Meadow Street and Shelton Avenue	2 large bags	1