Keep PA Beautiful Special Events and Trainings
Local clean up and recycling events can instead be found at our searchable event page.
Upcoming Events
Save the Date!
Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s 2025 Annual Conference, celebrating 35 years of stewardship, sustainability, and environmental education, will be held on October 15 and 16 at the Penn State University Nittany Lion Inn, State College, PA. The conference offers a valuable opportunity for us to come together, review our past achievements, exchange insights and ideas, and grow collectively.
More information and registration coming soon!

Past Events

Oct 16-17, 2024
Summit for Community Stewardship
Held in coordination with PA Dept of Environmental Protection, PA Dept of Transportation and PA Dept of Community & Economic Development in Scranton. In addition to sessions on marine debris, policy levers for stewardship and education, attendees heard about the link between community activism and stewardship from Kristine Zeigler of Planet Women, the Power of Beauty from Dave Forsell of Keep America Beautiful, and the evolution of community recycling infrastructure from Bob Anderson of Closed Loop Partners.
Feb 26, 2024
Pick Up PA Community Litter Cleanup Training Webinar
Want to hold a clean up in your community, but not sure where to start? This training includes choosing an event location, organizing volunteers, coordinating trash disposal, accessing resources and more! View the webinar recording and Download the slideshow (PDF).
Nov 1 & 2, 2022
Litter Summit
Lancaster, PA
The 2022 Litter Summit, was held in partnership with PA Dept. of Environmental Protection and PA Dept. of Transportation as a follow-up to the recently released Litter Action Plan. The Summit provided participating stakeholders an opportunity to reflect on the work of the past year, share progress made towards recommendations, promote new initiatives, and attract new allies in our shared commitment to prevent litter.