Belle Isle Spring Clean Up
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Through this event and the ongoing #KeepBelleIsleBeautiful anti-litter initiative, our goal is to make great impacts at both the local level, by reducing litter from Belle Isle, as well as the regional level, by being an active contributor to the umbrella, global campaign to keep our waters free of plastic pollution. Please join us in the fight for a clean environment.
Cleanup Details
Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm, rain or shine
Location: Outside the Belle Isle Aquarium
Parking: Belle Isle Aquarium; Additional parking locations are marked on map linked below.
Supplies: Belle Isle Conservancy will provide trash bags (made of recycled ocean plastic pollution) and
gloves at check-in.
Weighing Your Impact: When you're done collecting single-use plastic and other littered items throughout the park, please return to the Belle Isle Aquarium to have it weighed. We love to measure our impact together! Every pound you collect prevents pollution in the Detroit River and our Great Lakes!
Groups: Groups are responsible for identifying their own meet-up location at check-in. Parking at check-in is limited. please consider carpooling or identify and communicate additional parking locations throughout the park, on the map, in advance. Group leaders are asked to communicate volunteer waiver requirements to their teams. Groups with more than 50 volunteers should email martind@belleisleconservancy.org.
Kayakers: If you are bringing your own kayak to the cleanup, there will be a kayak check-in table where we will assign you a launch location.
Requirements: Each volunteer is required to sign the digital waiver in advance of the event. One waiver per individual. Each person in a group is required to individually sign their own waiver. Legal guardians must sign for minors. Individuals onsite during the cleanup that have not completed the volunteer waiver will not be considered participants.
*Times, dates, and prices of any activity posted to our calendars are subject to change. Please be sure to click through directly to the organization’s website to verify.