Texas Environmental Excellence Award Winner 2023
The State's Highest Environmental Award
Awarded By Gov. Greg Abbott's Office
Lead
4,093 lbs
of Recyclables
kept from landfill
Report
16,703 lbs
of trash kept from
our waterways
Inspire
1,737 Hrs
Volunteer Hours
Join the movement to clean up our communities and keep recyclables from the landfill & litter from
our waterways. It's estimated that 75% of the waste in our waterway come from land sources.
Every year, 11 million metric tons of plastics enter our oceans on top of the 200 million tons that
circulates in our marine environment. When marine life ingest litter, it can cause internal
and external wounds, blockage of the digestive system, decrease mobility, and toxicity.
Litter Scout, a local conservation group with the goal of inspiring, organizing, and engaging youth
about litter and its impact on waterways. Additionally, the LitterScout App is a new approach to
litter reporting & managment. The LitterScout App allows you make a difference by allowing
everyday citizens to report litter. This crowsourced information, posted online, can also help
individuals, student groups, organizations, or cities focus resources where it's needed most.
Trash monitering to understand where the need is. This can help us establish
patterns to combat trash before it ends up in our strom drains and waterways.
Reporting litter, Organize a clean-up, and Engage in a clean-up.
Report(litter location), Organize(form a group), & Engage(clean-up)!
Why Participate?
Engage
Report
Organize
About Us
Using the principles of the Scout Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace Principles, we promote sustainable methods and protect the health of parks, waterways, and communities through crowdsourcing of information, resources, and action.
Leave No Trace
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors
Outdoor Code
As an citizen, I will do my best to-
Be clean in my outdoor manners.
Be careful with fire.
Be considerate in the outdoors.
Be conservation-minded.
Be clean in my outdoor manners.
Be careful with fire.
Be considerate in the outdoors.
Be conservation-minded.
