Registration for Clean Green Springfield 2025 is now open!
Clean Green Springfield is a series of City-wide cleanup activities focused around the months of April and May. During Clean Green Springfield, the City of Springfield and partners challenge citizens to make Springfield a more beautiful, clean, and connected community through volunteer opportunities.
Opportunities available for the community to participate or volunteer in Clean Green Springfield 2025 include roadside trash pickups, stream cleanups, neighborhood cleanups, and a Neat Neighborhoods competition.
Roadside and Stream Cleanups are open to the community. Citizens who volunteer will be connected with a roadway or stream segment in need or can suggest a cleanup location. Cleanups consist of picking up litter and debris from a road, stream, or highway, with the trash bags provided by the City of Springfield.
Roadside and Stream Cleanups are made possible by Adopt-A-Street, Adopt-A-Stream and Adopt-A-Highway programs.
CLICK HERE for more information about Roadside and Stream Cleanups.
Neighborhood Cleanups apply only to select registered neighborhoods, in which neighborhood residents can dispose of yard waste, old furniture, construction debris and much more free of charge.
See below the 2025 Neighborhood Cleanup Dropoff event schedule and registered neighborhoods.
- April 12 – Meador Park | Seminole-Holland
- Meador Park (2600 S. Fremont Ave.)
- 8 a.m. – noon
- Meador Park (2600 S. Fremont Ave.)
- April 19 – Woodland Heights | Robberson
- BNSF Parking Lot (304 W. Chase St.)
- 8 a.m. – noon
- BNSF Parking Lot (304 W. Chase St.)
- May 3 – Greater Parkcrest | Mark Twain
- Sunset Church of Christ (1222 W. Sunset St.)
- 8 a.m. – noon
- Sunset Church of Christ (1222 W. Sunset St.)
- May 10 – Fassnight | West Central
- Fassnight Park (1305 S. Main Ave)
- 8 a.m. – noon
- Fassnight Park (1305 S. Main Ave)
- May 17 – Phelps Grove | University Heights
- MSU Parking Lot #22 (1003 E. Normal St.)
- 8 a.m. – noon
- MSU Parking Lot #22 (1003 E. Normal St.)
- May 31 – Bissett | Heart of the Westside
- Complete Electronics Recycling Lot (2935 W Chestnut Expy)
- 8 a.m. – noon
- Complete Electronics Recycling Lot (2935 W Chestnut Expy)
Neighborhood Cleanup Dropoff events are made possible by the City of Springfield and the Community Partnership of the Ozarks.
CLICK HERE for more information about Neighborhood Cleanup events.
Additionally, a special disposal opportunity, the Clean Green Recycling Extravaganza, a one-stop, city-wide recycling and donation event where the city residents can get rid of unwanted items while giving back to the community.
- Oct. 4 – Hammon’s Field Parking Lot
Ken McClure, Mayor of Springfield, Missouri, shared, “Taking pride in our community means taking responsibility and each doing our part. It means looking around at our habits as individuals, neighborhoods, organizations, businesses, and as a community and getting involved and making a change.”
The Clean Green Recycling Extravaganza is made possible by the City of Springfield and the Ozark Headwaters Recycling and Materials Management District.
CLICK HERE for more information about the Clean Green Recycling Extravaganza.
The Neat Neighborhood competition provides the opportunity for neighborhoods to earn points and prizes for cleanup and greenup projects. The program will also recognize a “Winning Neat Neighborhood” in each Council zone and a “Neat Neighborhood of the Year.”
According to a news release, the City is streamlining the application process and tweaking the judging criteria, keeping the same categories. See below the categories included in the 2025 Neat Neighborhood competition.
- Community Planning
- Public Places, Parks, Roads, Streets and Alleys
- Green Spaces
- Tidiness and Litter Control.
Neat Neighborhoods 2025 is made possible thanks to the Hatch Foundation.
CLICK HERE for more information about the Neat Neighborhood competition.
CLICK HERE to read the news release ‘Clean Green Springfield kicks off fifth year with fresh volunteer and disposal opportunities‘ from the City of Springfield.
For more information about Clean Green Springfield, CLICK HERE.