"Litter is an eyesore that eats away at neighborhood pride”                                                                                  Mayor Ron Gonzales Mayor Ron Gonzales launched the City’s efforts to fight litter in 2002 to make San Jose the cleanest big city in the nation.  The San José anti-litter campaign has been built on the success of the San Jose Anti-Graffiti Program, using the same model of aggressive cleanup, public education, enforcement, and community partnership.  Since then, annual community wide clean-ups have tackled the “100 Hot Spots” in neighborhoods, and public agency partners have helped by cleaning up litter and trash from freeways, interchanges, and creeks and transportation rights of way.  More than 1000 volunteers have participated in cleanups, adopted parks and neighborhoods, and mentor schoolchildren about taking care of their community.  The numbers speak for themselves - We have already collected over 16,000 bags of trash from our neighborhoods.  To put it in perspective, if you were to line up each of these bags end to end the line of bags would stretch from San José to Denver, Colorado.  We are well on our way to reach the East Coast.  San José residents interested in helping fight litter, or who want to report problem areas should call the Anti-Graffiti and Anti-Litter program at (408) 277-3208.  Please click here to find out more about the Anti-Litter Program.