Spring cleaning is in full effect. Bring earthly beauty and much-needed organization/reorganization to your home & living space, so it inspires more. What are you doing to help the planet look better? The annual Earth Day is on April 22 and it’s a global movement to get involved with. Help clean the waterways and much more.
The love and care for the planet starts with our own practices. Get involved in conservation and make it a community effort! Individuals get smarter with each year on how to efficiently minimize the junk that’s cluttering their life and attaching to our minds. Spring yard cleanups and planting of the new is a refreshing way to spend time outside in nature.
At the end of the day, get rid of things you feel called to these next few months. Get the family involved in sustainable and ethical home cleaning practices as well as spring cleanups in the city and neighborhood. Donate the piles of clothes and other gently used items to places you’ve researched and trusted. Goodwill of Greater Detroit (“more than a thrift store“) has some direct tips and facts mentioned in this list that you may not have known.
Detroitisit rounded up an eco-friendly, lemony fresh list to help guide you through this year’s spring cleaning in Detroit, ways to help you and the community live and breathe better.
TULIPS BLOOMING FOR SPRING AT DTE’S BEACON PARK & CAMPUS MARTIUS PARK, PHOTO @DOWNTOWNDET ON INSTAGRAM
ATTEND EVENTS, DONATE, & TAKE ACTION THIS EARTH DAY
Start looking now for Earth Day events in Detroit and metro Detroit or wherever you’re at. This Spring cleaning in Detroit list includes informing everyone to be more environmentally conscious and be more vigilant in protecting Mother Earth. According to the official Earth Day organization website, the theme for Earth Day 2025 is OUR POWER, OUR PLANET. This topic is a global invitation for everyone around the globe to unite behind renewable energy and to triple the global generation of clean electricity.
Educate one another even if you’re not in a teaching or leadership position. Local independent small businesses/shops & entrepreneurs will be spreading the word about the sustainability movement. Detroit parks and neighborhoods are just a couple places to start. Be resourceful and research more resources in the Detroit community!
2025 DEQUINDRE CUT SPRING CLEANUP, PHOTO @DETROITRIVERFRONT ON INSTAGRAM
2025 DEQUINDRE CUT SPRING CLEANUP
Date & Time: Saturday, Apr 19, 2025 – 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Spring cleaning in Detroit is best when you can get your little ones involved! Make cleaning more fun with an outdoor family-friendly event this month for the 2025 Dequindre Cut Spring Cleanup. The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy makes cleaning the city a celebration with this annual cleanup. Join in on the action by helping remove litter from the Dequindre Cut Greenway and its surrounding streets. Volunteers at any age and ability are encouraged! Bring work/gardening gloves and pickers. Volunteers under the age of 18 must be with an adult. Serve as much time as you like and click HERE to register.
Location: Dequindre Cut Greenway, Detroit
CELEBRATE EARTH DAY WITH BAILEY PARK NDC!, PHOTO EVENTBRITE/BAILEY PARK NDC
EARTH FEST 2025
Date & Time: Saturday, April 26 from 2-5 PM
This guided list for spring cleaning in Detroit should help get you excited about volunteering and getting hands-on. Get your hands in the dirt in creative ways. Gather the troops for a day of dedication and lots of unique interactive activities & demonstrations planned around protecting the planet. Celebrate with free food while exploring environmental and sustainable resources, and connect with the community through hands-on activities and demonstrations. FREE food to the first 100 registrants! Click HERE to reserve a free spot. Tickets are going fast.
What to expect: Seed Ball Making, Guided Nature Walk, Sunflower Planting, Creative Springtime Planting, Creative Springtime Crafts, Sustainability Demos & Tips, giveaways, and games.
Location: Bailey Park NDC Hub-2617 Joseph Campau, Detroit
DONATING CLOTHES & ITEMS TO GOODWILL OF GREATER DETROIT, PHOTO GOODWILL OF GREATER DETROIT
DONATING YOUR OLD BELONGINGS RESPONSIBLY
An estimated 80% of Americans participate in spring cleaning annually – but with the U.S. generating 46 pounds of e-waste and trashing 81.5 pounds of textiles per person each year, it’s important we’re responsible with how we declutter. Ninety-two cents of every dollar generated at Goodwill of Greater Detroit stores supports metro Detroiters in need. Here are some tips from Jeff Ukrainec, Vice President of Donated Goods at Goodwill of Greater Detroit, on how spring cleaners can responsibly dispose of their decluttered items:
Reuse or repurpose items, seek hassle-free donation centers, schedule a donation pick-up, know which items are in high-demand, and RESEARCH the impact of your donation! Not all drop-off bins are what they claim to be. More info about clothing donation bins can be found at the Michigan Government website HERE. Also, check out “Detroit’s premier textile waste recycler: NexTiles
PICK UP TRASH…AND CREATE SOMETHING!
This list to help motivate your for the months of spring cleaning in Detroit should spark some ideas of your own. If you’re out and about or taking a walk with your dog and see something that may look like it’s of no use, it may have another life! Get in the habit of taking a pair of gloves that work well for picking up waste or recycling. Get creative with your findings that are worth keeping to make some upcycled art and/or fashion with found materials! Integrate the new with the old and use methods in other ways as well as natural tools, fabrics, practices, and other earthly materials in your art process when possible.
- Check out the manufacturing studio in Detroit called Thing Thing and their educational design program: Transforming Trash assisting young Detroiters as they grow their design skills and transform community plastic waste into art. Thing Thing makes experimental design for exhibitions, collectors, and consumers using materials and methods usually reserved for industrial production.
- Check out Arts & Scraps and their community resource store for more education on reused materials.
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