New Canaan Announces 2025 Clean Your Mile Event

Information via the town of New Canaan

NEW CANAAN, CT — New Canaan encourages residents to once again help beautify its parks, schools and neighborhoods during the 2025 Clean Your Mile event.

According to a news release provided by New Canaan, the town is joining forces with the Chamber of Commerce and Planet New Canaan for the event.

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 such as parks and schools and 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, according to town officials.

Clean Your Mile is scheduled to take place April 21-27, 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 its 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, according to town officials.

"We welcome families to organize neighborhood teams to clean up roadside trash on their street," town officials said in a news release. "All help is appreciated."

Town officials also noted 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.

New this year, Walter Stewart's Market and Planet New Canaan will be providing a promotional giveaway, while supplies last, for those who participate in Clean Your Mile, details of which are forthcoming, according to town officials.

Garbage bags and a limited supply of grabbers for loan are available for pickup at the Public Works Department or Inland Wetlands at Town Hall in New Canaan. Dumpsters will be located in the train station commuter lot Friday-Sunday.

"Remember to work safe when cleaning roadside," town officials said.