Recap: Great American Cleanup on Bikes 2024

Bike Denton had its biggest group ever at Saturday’s city-wide Great American Cleanup event. Nineteen Bike Denton volunteers removed 35 bags of trash and five bags of recycling from a portion of the DCTA Rail Trail.

According to the event organizer, Keep Denton Beautiful, Saturday’s Great American Cleanup event had more than 1,500 Denton volunteers who removed more than seven tons of trash from across the City of Denton. According to organizers, this was nearly double the amount of trash removed during the 2023 event.

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Bike Denton’s volunteers, minus three not pictured.

So many types of bikes!

Our youngest volunteer just recently learned to walk!

Always thrilling when the DCTA A-Train rolls past your cleanup site.

These two volunteers just hung out in a pannier and didn’t help much, but they were very cute.

A volunteer loads up his bike trailer for the trip to the Civic Center drop-off.

One volunteer found what appeared to be a kit to curse people. There was a candle and a bowl containing nails and slips of paper with people’s names written on them.

In the litter drop-off line at the Denton Civic Center.

A full bike rack is a happy bike rack.

Bike Denton won “Oddest Item Found” for our kit to curse people!

Bike Denton hosts a litter cleanup four times per year at our adopt-a-spot along part of the DCTA Rail Trail. These cleanup events are published on the Events section of the Bike Denton website.