{"id":299234,"date":"2026-10-03T19:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299234\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T19:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:24:07","slug":"philly-takes-on-chicago-and-l-a-in-trash-cleaning-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299234\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly takes on Chicago and L.A. in trash cleaning competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia isn\u2019t just battling Chicago and L.A. on the football field and the baseball diamond: the cities are going head-to-head to see who can pick up the most litter.<\/p>\n

The 2026 Clean-Off is the second annual competition to see who can collect the most trash off the street throughout the entire month of October. Last year it was just Philly vs. Chicago, and while Philadelphia managed to fill 923 bags of trash, it lost by a hair to the Windy City.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cleaned, collectively, over seven tons of trash,\u201d said Amanda Block, co-founder of community cleanup organization Block by Block. \u201cI\u2019m so sad to even say this, but we lost by four bags. Four!\u201d <\/p>\n

Block created the Philly nonprofit with her husband, David Evans. <\/p>\n

She says the city faces even stiffer competition this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow Los Angeles is joining our competition,\u201d Block said. \u201cAnd they \u2014 it\u2019s a pretty trashy city.\u201d <\/p>\n

The nonprofit will host organized cleanups throughout the month for the competition, but anyone can contribute just by posting photos or videos on the Block by Block website<\/a> to count their bags towards Philly\u2019s total.<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s no prize for the winning city, Block says the competition helps promote pride in keeping public spaces clean.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a domino effect. It\u2019s like, we clean this area up, but once people are involved with doing it with us, then they take more pride in their neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia isn\u2019t just battling Chicago and L.A. on the football field and the baseball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8590,2211,1250,69,71,70,123411],"class_list":["post-299234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-chicago","tag-competition","tag-los-angeles","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-trash-cleanup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299234","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=299234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}