Melrose Fall Community Cleanup Event Planned For Saturday

MELROSE, MA — Melrose community members have a chance to help beautify their community this weekend with a planned fall community cleanup event.

The initiative will run from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday. It is organized by Keep Melrose Beautiful.

Event organizers recently invited community members to sign up to focus on picking up litter at one of dozens of designated cleanup locations around Melrose.

Those interested can sign up online here. Those interested in supporting Keep Melrose Beautiful can also donate here.

Keep Melrose Beautiful is a local chapter of the statewide Keep Massachusetts Beautiful nonprofit. The organization works in various communities across Massachusetts to take action to fight litter, often running community cleanup projects.

In addition to its community cleanups, Keep Melrose Beautiful was involved in a project to build “litter letters” as part of Earth Week observances last year.

The letters are equal parts a community cleanup initiative as they are a public arts project, asking community members to fill large hollow frame letters with litter that they recover through cleanup work.

Initially on display in Melrose, the letters came to Malden earlier this year for a display there.