Google’s International Cleanup Weekend (October 13th, 14th) is a global company initiative to get Googlers, friends and family out from their homes and behind the computers, and into local parks, trials, beaches and other areas which are in need of cleaning up.

Google’s International Cleanup Weekend started as a Google project to encourage Googlers to cleanup their local beaches, parks, and trails close to home and to share their progress using My Maps, the initiative is now being launched publicly in coordination with community action organizations in fifteen countries.

Now Google has partnered with Keep America Beautiful, Idealist.org, the Sierra Club, Americorps, and the Student Conservation Alliance for a wider approach, encouraging participants to track their efforts on Google Maps.

Google says that so far more than 100 cleanup maps have been created by Googlers chronicling the areas they intend to pick-up with friends and family. Feel free to join!