Nantucket Litter Derby

THE NANTUCKET LITTER DERBY

TIDY UP, DO GOOD, WIN BIG FOR NANTUCKET

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64,000 pounds of litter have been removed from the environment on Nantucket Island by our teams to date!

Our Mission

To raise awareness, foster teamwork, inspire friendly competition, and promote a sense of shared responsibility for keeping the Island's roadsides, beaches, and wild spaces litter-free.

2 days

1 community

1 mission

5th annual

nantucket

litter derby

Tidy up for Nantucket, do good, win big for your team

Saturday & Sunday

May 4th-5th 2024

teams of 6
2 days to compete
HOW MUCH LITTER CAN YOUR TEAM COLLECT?

Trash collection drop off at nantucket waste facility Sunday

after 1 pm and rewards ceremony at cisco brewery at 4pm

$1000 cash first prize

Quirky Hand Drawn Cartoon Dollar in Envelope

our supporters

Nantucketlitterderby.com

2024 nantucket litter Derby

Dates and Times

may 4th-5th

2024

Litter Collection Competition

6:00 AM-SATURDAY 5/4 UNTIL NOON SUNDAY 5/5

Litter collection is all day Saturday, may 4th and Sunday, may 5th until NOON

Team Details will be emailed upon sign up.

Weigh-In at Madaket Waste Facility

Litter drop-off will be ON SUNDAY, may 5th at Nantucket Recycling Center after 1 pm.

Litter must be sorted. Either ahead of time or at drop off.

Teams will be scheduled into time slots between 1 pm and 3 pm and the slots are first come first served. Details will be emailed.

After party and awards ceremony

Litter Derby Winners

Announced at Cisco Brewery

4:00 pm at cisco brewery

$1,000 cash for first prize team.

fabulous prizes for second and third place teams too!

photo cred: Fisher Real Estate

our past winners

2023

1 st Place- Team Clean ACKS

2nd Place- Team Nantucket Land Bank

3rd Place- The Trash Pandas

2022

1 st Place- Pod Squad (Marine Mammal Alliance)

2nd Place- The Trash Picker Uppers

3rd Place- Steezy Crew

2021

1st Place- The Trash Picker Uppers

2nd Place- Junk in the Trunk

3rd Place-Sister Act I

Honorable Mention- Royal Yacht Squadron

2019

1st Place- The Trash Picker Uppers

2nd Place- Trash Act

3rd Place- Green with Envy

still have questions?

read our faq page

Our Volunteers

Our Amazing Sponsors

Paul Berard and Johnny with the DPW, Town of Nantucket, Jp, Cedric and Omane with Waste Options, Graeme Durovich, ReMain Nantucket and Nantucket Footprints, Nantucket Land Council, Garbo Grabber, the Clean Earth Project, Great Point Properties, Atlantic East Real Estate, NAREB Nantucket, Dave Lower with Horizon, Brown-Foreman, Hatch's Package Store, Sustainable Nantucket, Nantucket Shellfish Association, Living Faith Worship Center, True island digital, Inquirer and Mirror, Nantucket Current, Stop and Shop, Lara Hanson, Fisher Real Estate, Nantucket Creative Reuse, Nantucket Conservation Foundation, The Green Nantucket, NCTV18, Off the Boat Nantucket, Fitzgerald Law Office, Kindflow Productions, Keegan Bartlett, Bartlett's Farm, Steve Davis. NLD event volunteers: Rebecca Chapa, Maryjane Mojer, Kyle Brown, Morgan Raith, Posie Constable, Carl Sutton, Jim Sjolund, Aishu Munagala.

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