We take a break this week then hit July hard starting on Monday the 6th!
Full schedule click here: https://walkingforrochester.org/all-litter-events/
Walking For Rochester is a Rochester, NY based nonprofit with one mission: to make Rochester the first litter free city in the nation. Rather than just organizing litter cleanups, we are building a comprehensive Litter Elimination System (LES) that combines community volunteers, local businesses, technology, and data to identify, track, and eliminate litter throughout the city.
The LES, with its major technology components expected to launch this summer, includes a mobile app that will allow volunteers to record litter pickups while automatically collecting location data during cleanups. The app also is where residents go to report litter throughout Rochester, NY. That information will feed into a GIS dashboard, providing a real time view of litter activity across Rochester (The GIS dashboard will have many other public data repositories like garbage day, crime rate, poverty rate, etc.). Together, these tools will help identify litter hotspots, measure cleanup impact, coordinate volunteers more effectively, and give businesses, neighborhoods, and community leaders better information to identify litter behavior.
The results from the 2026 season continue to demonstrate the belief Rochesterians have in our goal. In just three months, we have hosted:
• 65 community cleanups
• 549 attendees
• 6,099 pounds of litter removed
These numbers already exceed the total annual litter removed in any previous season (founded in 2020), reflecting the rapid expansion of our programs and volunteer network. As the LES tools come online later this summer, we expect to shift from simply responding to litter problems to proactively managing and preventing them using real time technology and community engagement.
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