How to spring clean your community's beaches, waterways and roadsides

The waterways and roadsides of Atlantic Canada can use a little spring cleaning.

In the spirit of CBC's Waves of Change project, we want to make it easy for you to get involved.

Community groups big and small are organizing cleanups and beach sweeps. Click on the links below tolocate the event nearest you. You'll also find instructions on how you can create your own event.

• Pitch-in Canada
• Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanups
• World Oceans Day events (Zoom in to see events inyour community)
• Nature Conservancy of Canada
• P.E.I.roadside cleanups
• The Great Nova Scotia Pick-Me-Up
• Nova Scotia beach sweeps

If you're organizing a cleanup and would like us to help spread the word, please tell us more below. And you can also join our Waves of Change group on Facebook.