New Canaan Announces 2024 Clean Your Mile Effort

Information via the town of New Canaan

NEW CANAAN, CT — The town is once again joining forces with the New Canaan Chamber of Commerce and Planet New Canaan for the 2024 Clean Your Mile effort.

According to a news release provided by the town, for the last several years, the Clean Your Mile effort has included three key components:

• New Canaan citizens individually tackling neighborhoods.
• Community groups scouring public spaces including parks and schools.
• The chamber's efforts with merchants to clean up sidewalks, storage areas and parking spaces surrounding the shops and restaurants in the downtown village district.

Clean Your Mile is scheduled for the week of April 22-28, however residents are welcome to participate anytime, town officials said. Individual volunteers and members of numerous community organizations help give New Canaan its annual spring cleaning, beautifying the town and environment.

Youth groups and civic organizations are asked to clean the parks, parking lots, schools and public areas where they have volunteered in previous years, town officials said. They also noted they welcome families to organize neighborhood teams to clean up roadside trash on their street; all help is appreciated.

Upon completion of neighborhood CYM collection, volunteers are asked to notify the Highway Department with the location of bags for pick up by calling 203-594-3704. Volunteers are asked to secure bags for pick up and place on grassy shoulder and not along roadways, town officials said.

Garbage bags and a limited supply of grabbers for loan are available for pick up from the Public Works or Inland Wetlands departments at Town Hall. Dumpsters will be located in the train station commuter lot Friday-Sunday, and residents are asked to remember to work safe when cleaning roadside, town officials said.