Yes, since they and their space-machines got there, humans have been leaving stuff behind. This article goes into detail about the nature of that stuff, so I will be discreet.
But this is what has happened everywhere humans have gone. Antarctica and the Arctic, Africa and the bottom of the oceans. There are molecules of Earth-based machines that have burned up in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. We began exploring the Moon by crashing things into it. Then we left behind machines, and refuse, as well as some science experiment instrumentation.
Fortunately, as least on the Moon, it will stay right where we left it. So, in the distant future, we could go back and clean up what we probably should clean up. After all, it's possible to envision future tourists visiting the first places humans landed on the Moon. We wouldn't want them to step on something.
What we left behind: how human activity has already littered the Moon
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