We will host our 36th annual Clean the Bay Day on Saturday, June 7, 2025 from 9 a.m. to noon at sites all across the Bay watershed in Virginia. Volunteer registration will open in April. If you would like to be contacted when registration opens, join our email list.
Clean the Bay Day could not be the huge success that it is without everyone joining together and lending a hand. Check out our photo album. Watch our video to see why so many people participate.
Ready to go one step further? Each cleanup site needs a Zone Captain. It's easy! You simply check in volunteers and report back data. Webinar training and other resources will be provided. Contact us at [email protected] if you would like more information.
In 2024, more than 3,680 volunteers and 60+ CBF partners gathered at over 200 sites across Virginia. Thanks to their hard work more than 82,200 pounds of debris were removed from parks, beaches, rivers, streets, and lakes.
While litter is easily prevented and can be picked up by anyone on any given morning, tackling the major unseen threats to the Bay watershed—like habitat loss, sediment, and nutrient pollution—require broad and focused support. Clean the Bay Day often performs as a gateway program through which children and adults alike embrace environmental stewardship of their waterways. We hope you will help us in our mission to save the Bay by learning more about the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint plan to restore and protect the Bay and its rivers and streams.
What You Can Do the Rest of the Year
While we pull some pretty bad stuff out of our waterways each year, we always encourage our volunteers to "go beyond litter" and address the less visible factors and behaviors that threaten the health the Bay. Check out more ideas for what you can do every day to help save the Bay.
