About us
CleanUpYourCity is a website where people put in dates for collecting litter and others join them. That is all it is, and all it is meant to be.
Where this comes from
The idea is unremarkable: picking up litter in the park alone feels odd, and most people stop soon after. With eight of you it is an afternoon with pleasant company during which something useful happens. What was missing was not the willingness but a place to see where and when something is happening.
[Two or three sentences of your own story belong here, Marcel - why you built this. It is the paragraph people actually read, and the only one on this page I cannot write.]
What matters to us
A low threshold
You need no account to look around. Signing up takes an e-mail address and a name you choose yourself. No fee, no membership, no obligation.
Sparing with data
We ask only for what the thing itself needs. The map loads when you want it to - before that, not a single request goes to OpenStreetMap. Of participants, only the number and the initials are public, never the full name.
Local rather than global
An action belongs to the people who turn up. We provide the site, look at new actions once, and otherwise stay out of the way.
It works without everything
Without JavaScript, without the map, on an old phone: search, filters and every action are there. A site usable only with a fast connection and a current browser excludes exactly the people who would join in.
Who is behind it
[Name and a sentence. The full details are in the imprint.]
Joining in
The easiest way is to come to an action. Or to put one in yourself, if there is none near you yet.