The City of Palm Coast’s annual Keep PC Clean event returned this past Saturday, April 11, with dozens of volunteers taking to the streets across the city to lend a hand in a concerted effort to collect trash and debris. While focused areas of concern were noted by the Palm Coast Public Works Department prior to the event, volunteers were able to take part in any location across the city.
While the city has staff that maintain and upkeep roads and medians across the city, the uptick in littering in recent years has created a need for the Keep PC Clean to aid in removing waste, debris and other items that are detrimental to the environment.
“Our goal with our Keep PC Clean initiative is to spread awareness and encourage efforts to prevent littering across the city,” said Alyssa Roscoe, Residential Solid Waste Collections Supervisor. “We are so fortunate to have such a beautiful city, and the efforts by both our staff and the volunteers that take part in this initiative are essential to assuring that it stays beautiful.”
This year’s event saw volunteers collect a total of over 450 lbs of waste and debris. For those interested in helping to Keep Palm Coast Clean, registration is currently open for the City of Palm Coast’s annual Intracoastal Waterway Cleanup, taking place on Saturday September 19, 2026, at 8am. All supplies for cleanup efforts are provided and all participants for this event receive a free t-shirt and luncheon at the Palm Coast Community Center after the event. For more information, email Alyssa Roscoe at [email protected]
JimboXYZ says
The litter that I clean up constantly are the neighbor’s unsecured trash that ends up wind blown onto my lawn & really anywhere on my protperty. Twice a week the garbage cans go out to the curb, the Waste trucks pick up the garbage & what wasn’t in a sealed bag is what I have to clean up on those days and make the effort to have it picked up again the next pickup day. I gave up getting upset over it, jut accept that it’s the growth pains of Alfinvile, FL, USA. Rarer is the vulture that picks thru the neighbor’s garbage for food scraps to make a mess, but that happens enough for me to clean/pick that litter up too. It’s generally a filthier & nastier clean up, decaying food items that are smelly & slimy contents that the birds drag out into the middle of the road.
As for any other location ? I’ve also picked up the heavy & obvious litter that ends up on the ground & put that back in a trash receptacle at (most often) that retail or public park area. What can you do, filthy people are filthy people. I could spend the rest of my life doing that volunteer cleanup and just make a difference or matter. I figure at least what I picked up mattered in the moment. The same ones, even the next one’s thru there, bound to be the next round of litter to be picked up.
I more or less perceive that as an individual responsibility, what I do to keep my immediate property trash & disease free. There are cigarette butts, candy wrappers & fast food item trash. Pretty much all the evidence I need yo know, it’s not mine. If the wind blew it to my property, my own garbage would be collect & settle at my property just the same. And it’s also adult & children’s garbage from the neighbors or anyone that visits as a guest and just dumps their trash as they drive thru or away from this residential. A lot of it is Amazon or home delivery packing litter too. The boxes go to the curb, the plastics, and anything that protects the contents is what ends up blowing into my yard that wasn’t secured. Me, I don’t shop for home delivery. What I need in life is generally at WalMart or Home Depot. As Alfinville is a heavier duplex rental city, a lot of the debris is landfill garbage, often times an eviction or lease end move is personal contents, furniture & whatever else.