Philadelphia’s citywide cleaning program has completed more than 200,000 projects since it began last year, including removing trash from 50,000 blocks, repairing 12,500 potholes and clearing 32,500 vacant lots.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The city’s next 13-week cleaning cycle<\/a> began Monday in Northeast Philly and will next move to some of the River Wards, the Office of Clean and Green Initiatives said. In mid-December, crews will make their way through Northwest Philly. They’ll be in West Philly in late December through early January, and then spend the rest of January in Center City, South Philly and portions of North Philly.<\/p>\n MORE:\u00a0Red, bus-only lanes to be added to 3 streets in Center City, South Philly<\/a><\/p>\n The program brings together more than a dozen agencies to tackle quality-of-life issues, including the removal of trash, abandoned cars and graffiti. SEPTA stations and schools are cleaned, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n Residents can track the progress<\/a> and make specific cleanup requests\u00a0online<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The cleanups coincide with the city’s fall leaf recycling program, which began Monday and ends Dec. 20. Bags of leaves can be dropped off at the city’s six\u00a0sanitation convenience centers<\/a>\u00a0from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Mondays through Saturdays. They also can be discarded at 13 drop-off centers open on\u00a0select Saturdays<\/a>.<\/p>\n The citywide cleanup program, which debuted in the 2024 spring, aims to increase the frequency of regular cleanings in each neighborhood. Since it began, it has completed 208,872 projects the Office of Clean and Green Initiatives said. They include:\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2022 50,868 blocks cleaned
\u2022 43,616 LED lights installed
\u2022 12,557 potholes repaired\u00a0
\u2022 32,533 vacant lots cleaned
\u2022 13,713 graffiti removals
\u2022 6,867 abandoned vehicles removed
\u2022 672 school cleanups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia’s citywide cleaning program has completed more than 200,000 projects since it began last year, including removing trash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9537,15703,744,12779,69,71,70,8431,2858],"class_list":{"0":"post-23638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-cherelle-parker","9":"tag-cleaning","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-neighborhoods","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-recycling","16":"tag-sanitation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}