Keep Orlando Beautiful

Join us for a ✨Strawless Summer✨ restaurant crawl!

Next week we have 3 opportunities to volunteer with us and invite local restaurants and cafes to switch to straws upon request for July and August.

Sign up now to help us pass out flyers and help restaurants sign up for Strawless Summer 🌊

Other ways to participate:
☕️ Commit to skipping the straw this summer
🙌 Share the flyer with your favorite restaurants
🐢 Cleanup trash and help protect our natural spaces

Sign up now at Orlando.gov/kob

We want 𝗬𝗢𝗨 🫵 to join us in Orlando on July 8 for 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮 𝗘𝗰𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗮 with our friends at Keep Orlando Beautiful & Sustainable Sisters of Florida!

📍𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗯𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗢𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼 | Second Floor of East End Market, 3201 Corrine Dr, Orlando, FL 32803
📆 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟴 | 𝟲 - 𝟴 𝗽𝗺
🔗 𝗥𝗦𝗩𝗣 at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-eco-trivia-tickets-1991204294647?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Test your Florida knowledge, make new friends, and yes - there will be prizes! 🤩 This event is free to attend, but all donations will support our work to protect Florida's wild places. We hope to see you there!

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Special thanks to Duke Energy for sponsoring this event!

✨Strawless Summer✨

Want to help reduce single use plastics in Orlando? Take the pledge today!

This is an Orlando-wide initiative led by Sufrider Orlando Chapter and Keep Orlando Beautiful to help reduce single-use plastics. 💚

We are asking restaurants to take the pledge and provide straws only upon request for the summer ☀️
(July-August)

Make sure to take the pledge at Orlando.surfrider.org/strawlesssummer so we can give you a shout out in our newsletter and at Plastic Free July events!

Not a restaurant owner but want to join in the fun?
🙌 Volunteer with us to do outreach
☕️ Skip the straw or bring your own!

Volunteers can sign up at Orlando.gov/kob

Volunteers from nonPareil Institute joined us this morning for a cleanup at Mayor Carl T. Langford Park!

They collected 46 lbs of litter including items like straws, bags, and wrappers. Crazier items included a beach ball, paint brush, and a shoe!

Make sure when you’re out enjoying our green spaces this summer to make sure all your trash makes it to a trash can ❤️🌎

Volunteers joined us last weekend for a Downtown Cleanup! 🌇

Together everyone helped remove over 300 pounds of litter! 👏

This is our last cleanup for a while as the summer heat is already out in full force☀️

Remember you can continue doing your part all summer long by switching to reusable water bottles, skip the straw, and making sure no trash gets left behind as you soak up the summer sun! 🏝️

Make sure to subscribe to our monthly newsletter and keep an eye out for Plastic Free July events!

See y’all soon!

💌 Subscribe to our monthly newsletter at
Orlando.gov/kobnews

Join us TOMORROW to dispose of household hazardous waste safely and FREE of charge!

📍 Jones High School (Camping World Lot 10)
📆Saturday, May 16, 2026
⏰9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Examples of Too Toxic to Trash items:
Wet paint, pool chemicals, batteries, cleaning products, fluorescent lightbulbs, LP gas bottles, herbicides, fertilizers and unlabeled products.

Visit Orlando.gov/HHW to learn more about the event and where to dispose your household hazardous waste all year long.

There will be bright yellow yard signs to help find us. We will be set up in Camping World Lot 10 behind the Jones High School Gymnasium.

Join us this Saturday for a cleanup!

Rolling Loud is this weekend and we are teaming up with DJ Five Venoms and Commissioner Shan Rose for a community cleanup.

📆Saturday, May 9
⏰9 - 11 a.m.
📍John H. Jackson neighborhood Center

Sign up now at orlando.gov/kob

Celebrating Earth Day with the best volunteers and partners! 🌎

Here is our cleanup results for the week thank you again to everyone to came out to a cleanup and showed our planet some love this week ❤️

🌎 Earth Day Cleanup
🙌 204 volunteers
🗑️ 480 pounds of litter

🌎 Lake Eola Earth Day Cleanup
🙌 224 volunteers
🗑️ 263 pounds of litter

🌎 Annual Earth Day Cleanup
🙌 130 volunteers
🗑️ 310 pounds of litter

Over the entire month volunteers cleaned up over 2,000 pounds of litter!!!

Find an upcoming cleanup and volunteer with us at Orlando.gov/kob