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The Great Plastic Purge is an annual, large-scale, multi-location, multi-partner cleanup event on the Lower Susquehanna River. Please check back soon as this page will be updated with 2024 information.

Site Locations:

  • Site A: Peqeau Boat Launch, Pequea, PA 17565

  • Site B: York Furnace Boat Ramp, Airville, PA 17302

  • Site C: Gamler’s Boat Yard, 211 Indian Steps Rd, Airville, PA 17302

Information for Plastic Purge Volunteers

  • Please choose a registration location that is suitable for you. Feel free to come for as long as you’d like.

  • You will be expected to sign in and sign out of the registration location you go to.

  • Expect to get wet and dirty. You will have options to pick along the shorelines of islands, their interior, and along the land banks on both sides of the river.

  • Please wear clothes you don;t mind getting dirty and a sturdy pair of shoes or hiking boots. Please also pack dry clothes with you and be prepared for colder weather.

  • If you have waders please feel free to bring your own, we will have hip waders available to get in the water and pick along the shorelines.

  • All cleanup supplies will be provided (bags, gloves, pickers).

  • Please bring your own reusable water bottle, we will have drinking water available to refill your bottle. Food/snacks will be provided.

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Great Plastic Purge of the Lower Susquehanna

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