Halloween Cleanup at Ping Tom Park + Lunch!

Help Chicago win the Clean-Off by joining this spooky cleanup at Ping Tom Park, and celebrate with lunch in Chinatown after! There's nothing spooookier than a trashy park!!! Bring your costumes and join us to clean up a litter hotspot in Ping Tom Park on Halloween, followed by a celebratory lunch in Chinatown afterward! This cleanup will be part of our month-long October Clean-Off battle against Philly and Los Angeles, to see who can pick up the most trash by the end of the month. All Cleanup Club events in the Clean-Off are generously sponsored by Independent Recycling Services. Cleanup Club is in its 6th year of volunteer litter removal. We're proud to say our volunteers have joined us for 140+ CLEANUPS and removed more than 60,000 LBS OF TRASH from our shared community! Date: Saturday, October 31st Time: The cleanup will be 11 AM - 1 PM. We'll gather for an optional dim sum lunch at nearby restaurant after the cleanup, but the exact location is still TBD. More details soon! Cleanup Location: We will meet near 1700 S Wentworth. Supplies & What To Bring: We will provide grabbers, bags, gloves, and vests. There will be some recycling buckets for everyone, but you are welcome to bring your own if you like. We also encourage you to BYO pet food or pet litter bags for reuse if you have them at home! Please bring your own drinking water. How to Get There: As we are an environmental organization, we strongly encourage taking public transit, walking, biking or carpooling to the event if possible. Suggested Donation: Cleanup Club Chicago has 501c3 nonprofit status through the Illinois Environmental Council. While this event is free to attend, if you like our work and want to help us tackle Chicago's litter pollution problem, any donation is greatly appreciated! We humbly suggest a $10 donation per attendee to cover our costs and to support future cleanup events. To fully register for the event, we will need your first name, last name, email address, and answers to both of our custom questions. If you're bringing a guest, we will need this information for each of them as well. If your registration is incomplete, it may be canceled. Thank you in advance! _________________________________________________________________________________________ Please note the following cleanup rules: Safety First: Wear durable, appropriate footwear that you don't mind getting dirty. If you find any items that present a biohazard, such as needles, please leave them, as we don't want anything poking through a bag and injuring someone. We also recommend avoiding broken glass. Do not do anything that you feel uncomfortable with or that puts you in danger. Kids and Dogs: The minimum age for participation is 8 years old, and ANYONE UNDER 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT CHAPERONE (OVER 18). You are responsible for you and your child's safety. Additionally, we ask that you do not bring your dogs to cleanups. Photograph and Video Waiver: Photographs and videos are taken at the cleanups and include participants. They are typically used on social media, but may also be used for marketing or promotional purposes. If you do not wish to have photo/video taken of you, then you are responsible for letting the leaders of each individual cleanup know and we will do our best to avoid taking photos and video with you in it. We cannot guarantee that you will not be in the background of any photos or video. Therefore, all participants must consent that any photographs or video taken of them or their minor, purposefully or inadvertently, can be used on social media and/or for marketing and promotional purposes by the Cleanup Club or any affiliated groups. Release of Liability and Assumption of Risk: You are completely responsible for your own safety - please pay attention at all times and avoid any areas or items that are hazardous. By participating in any of the Cleanup Club events and/or allowing a minor (under the age of 18) to participate for which you have legal responsibility as a parent or guardian, YOU ARE HEREBY VOLUNTARILY CONSENTING TO SUCH PARTICIPATION, and on behalf of yourself, your heirs, assigns, and next of kin, RELEASING AND HOLDING HARMLESS the Cleanup Club or any affiliated organizations and its administrators, members, agents, employees, associated personnel, other participants, sponsors, advertisers, and, if applicable, owners and lessors of premises used to conduct the event (“RELEASEES”), from any and all claims, demands, losses, and liability arising out of or related to any ILLNESS, INJURY, DISABILITY OR DEATH, THEFT, OR LOSS you may suffer, WHETHER ARISING FROM THE NEGLIGENCE OF THE RELEASEES OR OTHERWISE, to the fullest extent permitted by law. Cancellation Policy: If for any reason you decide you cannot attend this event after signing up, PLEASE cancel your registration. This allows us to open up spaces for other people, and get a more accurate estimate of how many volunteers will be attending. Please email us at [email protected] if you have any further questions. Please follow our Cleanup Club Eventbrite page for other cleanup events. We look forward to seeing you there!