SPRINGFIELD — A citywide cleanup effort was held Saturday in Springfield to coincide with the Great American Cleanup and Earth Day.

Volunteers were sent to one of four zones set up in the city including Rebecca Johnson School in Mason Square; Medina's Supermarket on Main Street in the North End; Duggan Middle School on Wilbraham Road and the Forest Park Middle School on Oakland Street.

Trash was picked up by the volunteers and brought to locations in their zone where it was picked up by assigned crews.

The event started at 8 am and went until noon, as tires, mattresses, bottles, and just about every type of trash one could imagine was picked up by the workers as they attempted to make the areas that they were in cleaner and safer.