Las Vegas, NV - A short stroll around the desert looks more like a dump yard and that's exactly what one area near Ft. Apache and Sunset in the southwest has become.

"A lot of people joke that you could come out here and furnish your home with some of this stuff," says Tom Warden, a spokesman of Howard Hughes Corporation which is spearheading a cleanup effort this Saturday.

Mattresses, car windows and even fully intact TV's can be easily spotted.

While desert dumping has always been problem, these bigger items are relatively new additions.

"We think it's the results of a lot of the foreclosed homes being cleaned out," says Warden.

The land is owned by a variety of people.  Some of it is Bureau of Land Management, some is county, and some is held privately by companies like Howard Hughes.

Waste management company Republic Services is donating large trash bins and volunteers to aid in the cleanup.

"If there are things that you don't know what to do with, contact us and we'd be happy to take that from you," says Jennifer Simich with Republic Services, who says they will accept any trash regardless of size at their dumpsites as long as you show ID and a garbage bill.

Simich says while the cleanup effort is in the southwest this weekend, this is a problem seen in open desert all across the valley.

Visit summerlin.com/cleanup for information on how you can volunteer at this weekend's cleanup effort.