Cleaning Florida's waterways and wetlands since 1993

Join us on for the 1st Annual UF Watershed Cleanup Challenge on Sat, February 24 from 9:00am until 12:00pm. We will be focusing on the 3 watersheds that encompass the University of Florida campus: Lake Alice Watershed, Bivens Arm Watershed, and Hogtown Creek Watershed. Our goal will be to remove trash and debris from the creeks, ponds, and sinks on campus to preserve wildlife, natural spaces, and our drinking water!

Supply pickup will be available on the Thursday and Friday prior to Saturday's kickoff at multiple locations on campus including Reitz Union, Fraternity Row, Soroity Row, NATL, and the Physics Building.

Create a team that reflects your interests at UF and invite your friends, faculty, and peers to join! Your team can request a site or receieve a location from the Current Problems.

Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 teams that haul out the most trash by weight! We will also have prize categories for Weirdest Find, Most Useful Item, and Smallest Item! Your team can also win big by fundraising on behalf of Current Problems!

Studies show that 80% of marine debris originates from freshwater systems. As a peninsula, it's critical that Florida's upland and upstream communities play a significant part in pollution prevention and reduction. Removing debris preserves critical wildlife habitat by preventing leaching of chemicals, toxins, and microplastics into surface waters and further, into our tributaries, river systems, and Aquifer.

As the only freshwater debris removal nonprofit in the Southeast, Current Problems has the unique opportunity to help in local areas where water resources are highly impacted by discarded waste. We hope that by focusing on projects that most impact the health of habitat and water quality, and by encouraging individuals to consider their impact on habitats downstream from their communities, our work will eliminate the need for itself. Until then, we will continue to develop sustainable infrastructure for communities to repurpose and recycle commonly dumped waste.

We are building our programs and organization to serve more river basins in the South and share our legacy, lessons, and success.

Our focus and priority in all its work is stewardship- of its volunteers and of the watersheds it protects.

UF Watershed Cleanup Competition

Gators for Garbage

Team Leaderboard

Team Members