Cleanups in the Illinois River Watershed
Spring 2025
Join us for our 6th Annual Illinois River Cleanup on Saturday, April 12th!
There are 15+ different locations you can volunteer at across the watershed in both Arkansas and Oklahoma, including 2 float cleanups! There will be a lunch and raffle held at the WOKA Whitewater Park in Oklahoma following the cleanups that all volunteers are welcome to join for barbeque and fun prizes!
Self-Led Cleanups on the Illinois River
Invite your family and friends out for a few hours of outdoor service on the river! You can get started leading your own cleanup and we are happy to help.
Volunteer Leadership Opportunities
We are looking for passionate individuals who are able to help coordinate our spring and fall cleanups, so if you are wanting to make a difference in your watershed, please contact us!
Did you know that Arkansas has the 12th largest highway system in the nation? That means more than 16,000 miles of roadway to maintain and keep litter free—that’s a lot! In 2020, Keep America Beautiful released the findings of its largest study on litter in America since 2009. The results showed that more than 50 billion pieces of litter land on American roadways each year. Of those 50 billion pieces, 26 billion pieces ended up along the waterways while 24 billion pieces remained on the roadside. That’s more than 2,000 pieces of litter per mile in our state. ALSO, Arkansas has approximately 82,000 miles of waterways that carries litter downstream to the Gulf of Mexico.
For Arkansas, that’s an average of 32 million pieces of litter annually.
-ARDOT, Keep it Clean Arkansas