A Clean & Green Allentown Depends
on Everyone!

Many individuals, neighborhood and other volunteer groups help keep Allentown clean with regular and special clean ups.

Keep your property clean. You set a good example for your neighbors.

	Clean up litter. We can help organize a cleanup and provide supplies.
	Get FREE Don't Trash Allentown Starter kits - free brooms, dustpans and trash bags are provided to Allentown residents who agree to keep the sidewalk and street in front of their homes clean. Join the more than 6,000 residents who have pledged to clean up litter!
	Join the Adopt-A-Block Program to clean your block with others who live, work and play on your block. The City supplies gloves, brooms, bags and a litter basket marked with the name of your group.

Clean and plant flowers or mulch a tree well.

Click here or call the Hotline for
cleanup assistance!

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 community service crews provide year round litter cleanup.