Keep Pickens Beautiful

Litter-O-Lympics 2026
2026-03-07 08:00 - 2026-04-18 20:00 (America/New_York)
This year, Litter-O-Lympics will happen at your own pace during the Greatest American Cleanup & America’s 250th Anniversary Celebration. It kicks off at our first group litter cleanup event on March 7th and runs all the way until April 18th, when we will celebrate Earth Day on Main!

Learn more on the official Litter-O-Lympics webpage

GAC Litter Cleanup
2026-03-07 10:00 - 12:00
CLEANUP ROUTE

North Main Street from Revolution Church towards Old Philadelphia Road

Please join us for this year’s Great American Cleanup! For America’s 250th Birthday, we will be hosting a litter cleanup event every Saturday in March, focusing on a different area of Pickens County each weekend. If you’ve been curious to volunteer with us, this is a great intro activity! Get some exercise, make some friends, and leave the place more beautiful than you found it. We promise, you will feel great afterward!

This event kicks off the start of the Litter-O-Lympics! Earn extra points towards the competition for attending this, and all group litter cleanups!

Parking instructions: Park at Revolution Church – 689 North Main Street

Clean-up kit will be provided.All ages welcome.No experience needed.Weather permitting.

Register now!

Recycle Your Old TV
2026-03-14 11:00 - 16:00 | pickens county recycle center, 390 Appalachian Court, Jasper, Georgia, 30143, United States
We will be collecting those old CRT TVs that are collecting dust in your basement, CRT TVs – FREE OF CHARGE!

Where are your TVs going? For the past few years, KPB has worked with NOVUS solutions. They have a facility in Marietta that properly and safely recycles those old CRT monitors. We’ll collect them and package them for NOVUS to pick up and safely transport to their facility.

Hard-To-Recycle Items Event
2026-03-14 11:00 - 16:00
Do you wish you could recycle Styrofoam? How about florescent tube lights??? On March 14th, KPB is hosting a “Hard-to-Recycle” items event at the Pickens County Recycle Center (on Appalachian Court) from 11am-4pm where we will collect these hard to recycle items and recycle them for you.

Where are your ‘hard to recycle’ materials going? CHARM is a recycling facility in Atlanta that accepts a wide range of materials, so we will take your items there for you since it’s a bit of a drive from here, to save you the drive. 😁🚚♻️

Items that will be accepted*:

StyrofoamFlorescent tube lights**Corrugated plastic signsShrink wrap(FREE OF CHARGE)

This event will kickoff the Great American Cleanup months of March and April! Check out our Calendar for scheduled events, and keep an eye on our socials for upcoming events to help us celebrate the 2025 Great American Cleanup.

*We will have one truck on site for the materials. We will only accept what will fit; once the truck is full, no more materials will be accepted. Get there early! **tube lights – up to 5 free; additional $0.50 each

GAC Litter Cleanup
2026-03-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Yellow Creek Church, 1276 Yellow Creek Road, Jasper, Georgia, 30143
CLEANUP ROUTE

Yellow Creek Road

Please join us for this year’s Great American Cleanup! For America’s 250th Birthday, we will be hosting a litter cleanup event every Saturday in March, focusing on a different area of Pickens County each weekend. If you’ve been curious to volunteer with us, this is a great intro activity! Get some exercise, make some friends, and leave the place more beautiful than you found it. We promise, you will feel great afterward!

Earn extra points towards the Litter-O-Lympics competition for attending this, and all group litter cleanups!

Clean-up kit will be provided.Meet at Yellow Creek Church at 10:00 – 1276 Yellow Creek Road.All ages welcome.No experience needed.Weather permitting.

Register now!

GAC Litter Cleanup
2026-03-28 10:00 - 12:00
CLEANUP ROUTE

Jerusalem Church Road

Please join us for this year’s Great American Cleanup! For America’s 250th Birthday, we will be hosting a litter cleanup event every Saturday in March, focusing on a different area of Pickens County each weekend. If you’ve been curious to volunteer with us, this is a great intro activity! Get some exercise, make some friends, and leave the place more beautiful than you found it. We promise, you will feel great afterward!

Earn extra points towards the Litter-O-Lympics competition for attending this, and all group litter cleanups!

Clean-up kit will be provided.Parking instructions will be announced before event.All ages welcome.No experience needed.Weather permitting.

Register now!

Edible Pickens Garden Planting - Cabin & Peace Park
2026-04-04 11:00 - 14:00 | Kirby Quinton Historic Cabin (next to the Old Jail at the North end of Main Street), 141 North Main Street, Jasper, GA, 30143, United States
Volunteer in our Edible Pickens Gardens every weekend in April as part of the Greatest American Cleanup For America’s 250th!

Our first Edible Pickens workshop in April will happen in the historic Kirby-Quinton Cabin garden and the Peace Park garden at the north end of Main Street in downtown Jasper. We will do some garden maintenance, like weeding, pruning and fertilizing existing plants, while also adding new seeds and some new plant babies in each garden. Adding a fresh layer of mulch at the end will not only make these gardens look cleaned up, but will also help hold in moisture and nutrients to help the garden thrive!

No experience necessary.All ages, bring the family!Tools and water will be provided.Just show up and have some fun with us!Parking is best on Mark Whitfield St. next to the Natural Marketplace

Edible Pickens Garden Planting - Lee Newton Memorial Garden
2026-04-11 11:00 - 14:00 | Lee Newton Memorial Park, Jasper, Ga, 599 Stegall Dr, Jasper, Georgia, 30143
Volunteer in our Edible Pickens Gardens every weekend in April as part of the Greatest American Cleanup For America’s 250th!

Our second Edible Pickens workshop in April will happen at the Lee Newton Park Memorial Garden near the Chamber of Commerce Building. We will do some garden maintenance, like weeding, pruning and fertilizing existing plants, while also adding new seeds and some new plant babies in each garden. Adding a fresh layer of mulch at the end will not only make these gardens look cleaned up, but will also help hold in moisture and nutrients to help the garden thrive!

No experience necessary.All ages, bring the family!Tools and water will be provided.Just show up and have some fun with us!Parking is easy! Park anywhere in the parking lot and walk over past the Chamber of Commerce building.

Edible Pickens Garden Planting - Progress Garden
2026-04-18 11:00 - 14:00 | Pickens Progress Edible Pickens Garden, 94 Main Street, Jasper, Georgia, 30143
Volunteer in our Edible Pickens Gardens every weekend in April as part of the Greatest American Cleanup For America’s 250th!

Our third Edible Pickens workshop in April will happen at the Pickens Progress gardens in the Pickens County Progress parking lot. We will do some garden maintenance, like weeding, pruning and fertilizing existing plants, while also adding new seeds and some new plant babies in each garden. Adding a fresh layer of mulch at the end will not only make these gardens look cleaned up, but will also help hold in moisture and nutrients to help the garden thrive!

No experience necessary.All ages, bring the family!Tools and water will be provided.Just show up and have some fun with us!Park anywhere in the Progress parking lot.

Earth Day On Main
2026-04-25 10:00 - 16:00
Join us for the 4th annual Earth Day on Main celebration! This year, we will be celebrating right in the parking lot at the KPB Office. Each year this event is a little different depending on our current focuses and programs. This year we will not be including vendors, and will focus on eco-friendly activities and educational workshops for the whole family!

We are also curating a local plant swap, just dig one up from your yard and swap it with one you might not have from someone else in the community! We will also be celebrating the efforts of all of the Litter-O-Lympics participants with medals and prizes for who collected the most litter in the competition. Help us celebrate their amazing efforts! (It’s not too late to participate if you want to join in the fun, the competition ends April 18th.)

If you are interested in teaching the community something special or maybe have a fun eco-friendly craft you’d like to include, please contact us!

Community Pickup & LOL Launch - Old Talking Rock Hwy
2026-06-27 09:00 - 23:00
If you haven’t been down Old Talking Rock Hwy, you’re in for a treat! This beautiful road rolls through fields and across creeks. Help clean it up!

Meet us at 60 Creek Lane, Talking Rock, GA 30175 – We’ll park there and will head up Old Talking Rock Highway

If you want to participate in the Litter-O-Lympics, this is the launch of the 2026/2027 competition. Learn more and register here: https://keeppickensbeautiful.org/events/litter-o-lympics/

But you don’t need to be a LOL Trashlete to join us for this lovely stroll up Talking Rock Highway as we clean up one of the prettiest roads in our county. We’re going to host a monthly pickup, so join us for the first of the season.

Group Litter Cleanup - AW Lawson
2026-07-25 08:00 - 10:00 | Keep Pickens Beautiful Office, 56 South Main Street, Jasper, Georgia, 30143, United States
Join us for our next Litter Cleanup on AW Lawson. Meet us at the KPB Office at 8:00 – we know it’s early but we want to beat the heat! We’ll head down Spring Street to AW Lawson. We’ll head towards Camp Road, cleaning up this road that faces constant litter challenges. Get some exercise. Meet new friends. Do good for our community. Be happy!

Garden Cleanup - Pickens Recycling Center
2026-07-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Pickens Recycling Center, 390 Appalachian Ct, Jasper, GA, 30143, United States
The garden at the Pickens Recycling Center needs some TLC. Join us as we do a cleanup to save the flowers, blueberries, and more from the grasses that are trying to take over.

Garden Cleanup - CARES Garden of Giving
2026-08-01 09:00 - 11:00 | CARES For Pickens, 89 Cares Drive, Jasper, GA, 39143
The CARES Garden of Giving has been amazing fruitful this year! Now it’s time for an end-of-Summer cleanup to prepare for Fall.

With all the recent rain, the mulch in the paths has completely broken down and needs to be topped with fresh mulch. Plus there’s some weeding and other general cleanup. Join us to help get the garden ready for another season of giving.

If you’re able to join us and you have any of these tools, please bring them: wheel barrow, rakes, pitch forks, shovels, and anything else that can help move or spread mulch.

Check out how much produce the garden has grown! All produce grown is given to the community members that CARES serves. Click HERE to view the harvest app.

Group Litter Cleanup - Location TBD
2026-08-29 09:00 - 11:00
We’re hosting a monthly litter pickup on the 4th Saturday of each month. We’re not sure which road we’re going to clean in August – let us know if you have any suggestions. Watch this event for updates.
