Archive of Clean-ups in the Parks of Bayonne, NJ during the year 2025.
Bayonne Nature Club
Appreciating, protecting and improving urban nature sites.
January 11, 2025 at Bayonne Inlet near LA Fitness. Two environmental heroes cleaned up 6 bags of trash after a snowy morning.
February 8, 2025 at Bayonne Inlet near LA Fitness. Five Environmental Heroes cleaned up one Lidl grocery cart, 10 bags of plastic bottles, Lidl grocery flyers, Star Bucks coffee cups and lids, cigar butts, plastic vegetable bags and one plastic shopping bag. Thanks to Dept. of Public Works for taking away the trash.
March 22, 2025 at Bayonne Inlet near Rt 440. We had 21 Environmental Heroes cleaning up the shoreline. Thanks also to NJ Clean Stream Team and Dept. of Public Works! In all: 16 big bags of trash were removed along with 14 tires.
April 5, 2025, Rutkowski Park clean up:
In spite of dreary, damp weather, 12 Environmental Heroes cleaned up 23 bags of trash. Much of it was bottles and cans with some large pieces of styrofoam, several 5 gal. plastic buckets, a plastic bread tray, a 20 gal. tote and a rubber tire rim. Thanks to Dept. of Public Works for taking the trash away.
May 17, 2025: Rutkowski Park clean up: Challenging the bad weather reports, 17 Environmental Heroes cleaned up 15 bags of trash, one large piece of rusty metal, several large plastic pieces, and an old air conditioner duct. Thanks to DPW for taking the trash away.
June 21, 2025: 12 Environmental Heroes cleaned up 15 bags of trash which also included a 4x8 heavy plastic fence, 4 large scrap metal (possibly from EMR), several ship lines, 55-gal metal drum, 2 wooden pallets, some plastic pipe, two 5-gal plastic water jugs and float markers. Thanks to DPW for taking the trash away!
July 19, 2025 at Ahern Veterans Stadium Park: 15 Environmental Heroes cleaned up 30 bags of trash from the north and south ends of the park. This included the removal of a port-o-potty, a tire and brake works, rope, broken plastic crates, a fallen sign, and hundreds of bottles and cans. Thanks also to NJ Clean River Crew and Bayonne Dept. of Public Works.
August 16, 2025 at Rutkowski Park Shoreline Cleanup with 20 Environmental Heroes cleaining up 30 bags of trash, including the Monster Bag, a car bumper, traffic cones, a ladder, and a gas can. Thanks also to NJ Clean River Crew and Hackensack Riverkeeper.
At left: the Monster bag was removed from Fishermen's Trail near Rt 440.
