Events

31st Annual Milwaukee Riverkeeper Spring Cleanup

Because of you, we didn’t just clean up our rivers… we made history. Together, our community officially secured the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the most participants in a multi-site river cleanup.

This major milestone belongs to YOU. It belongs to the early arrivals hauling supplies, the families picking up their first bags of trash, the longtime volunteers who return year after year, and the site captains who made it all run smoothly. We’re grateful to our partners who helped make this possible, but it’s our community that made this happen.

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Grab your gloves, rally your friends, and join us for a morning of community action. Join together with 4,000 volunteers across three rivers and many communities as we collectively remove more than 100,000 pounds of trash in hours!

This isn’t just a cleanup, it’s become an annual tradition! A celebration of teamwork, connection, and the power of community action. Whether you’re a seasoned environmental advocate or a first-time volunteer, we’ll work together, side by side and stream by stream to restore our precious waterways.

Join us afterward at the Harley-Davidson Museum, from 12 – 3 PM, for a zero-waste Earth Day Celebration with Rock the Green! Cleanup participants 21 and over will receive a complimentary beverage, courtesy of Molson Coors.