Team up to clean up
PalmettoPride Clean Teams gives citizens a simple framework to facilitate their participation. We need your help to engage neighbors, family and friends to adopt a special area to monitor and clean up regularly. We recommend working with your local KSCB affiliate with help organizing a cleanup, but if there isn’t an affiliate in your area, Clean Teams is the opportunity for you!
We are looking for a few thousand good Samaritans to help us create a social norm that littering is not okay. PalmettoPride was created to engage South Carolinians to take responsibility for their communities and eradicate litter.
We can help identify the right program for your team and provide resources to help you get started. In exchange for your commitment, PalmettoPride can provide your group with cleanup supplies, t-shirts, event promotion, positive publicity, and other forms of technical assistance. While we only require four litter pickups a year, we encourage your Clean Team to pick up litter when you see it. We would love to hear from you and see your team in action! Learn more or contact PalmettoPride Special Projects Manager Joseph Berry at jberry@palmettopride.org.
We will defer to all locally coordinated “adoption” programs where applicable, such as: Adopt-A-Beach, local Keep America Beautiful Adopt-A-Spot programs, Riverkeeper and Covekeeper programs)
Requirements
- Four required litter pickups a year in parks, neighborhoods, roadways, streams, waterways, and/or nature trails
- Monitor your area for illegal dumpsites, graffiti and vandalism and report to local law enforcement.
- Report your clean up results
Clean Team Toolkit
Clean Team Agreement Form
Cleanup Report Card
Request Supplies
Safety Guidelines
Safety Guidelines Video
How to Organize a Cleanup
Current Clean Teams
| Slobodanka R. Poole | Longcreek Plantation Neighbors |
| Greensprings Green Team | Lugoff Hunter’s Crossing |
| Business Networks | Rosewood Rangers |
| Newspring Church Charleston | Ebenezer United Methodist Church |
| Parris Island Young Marines | Cleaner SC NW |
| Minors & Mentors Maintaining Millbrook Meticulously | North Washington Road Clean Team |
| Northside Clean Team | Kappa Epsilon Psi |
| Brookert Heights | Port Royal Pride Patrol |
| A Carolina Family | One Good Deed at a Time |
| Bamberg County Student Clean Team | Carson’s 4-H Trash Warriors |
| Romain Radicals | Whispering Woods |
| SC Beachcombers | Lake Cooley Clean Team |
| Town of Patrick Clean Team | Empowered U |
| Keep Berea Beautiful | Strap em Up |
| Little River River Sweep | Crystal Lake Clean Team |
| New Gray Rock / Dam Roads | Summerville Beautification Committee |
| Matthews Mill Village Community Group | Planeteers |
| Charleston Paddle Club | Summerset Bay |
| Mt. Vernon Road Clean Team | Organized Urban Renewal Service Robert Smith |
| Battery Creek HS MCJROTC | J.L. Mann Patriot Battalion |
| Battery Point HOA | Charleston Bicycle Company |
| In Honor of All Educators | Cub Scout Pack 63 |
| SCHH Riverbend Road Warriors | Burton Center |
| Harbor Island “Litter Bug” | The Kushlak |
| Collins Family | Tideline CPA Group |
| Columbia High School Athletics | 25th Operations Support Squadron War Horses |
| Augusta-Aiken Audubon Society | Batesburg-Leesville Litter Busters |
| Team Awesome | Ashford Clean Team |
| Dent Middle School | Gullah Geechee Initiative Foundation, Inc. |
| Keep Foxbank Beautiful | Workhorse |
| West Pelzer Pride | Pickens County Litter Cleanup Crew |
| The Cainhoy Clean Team | The Walkers |
| Mulberry Pickers | Stonoview Litter Brigade |
| Hogan Land Clean Team | Hilton Helpers |
| Get Lit Team | Upper Rockyford Lake Clean Team |
| Massey Estates | Cainhoy Clean Team Crew |