LitterScout Recognized By
Texas Environmental Excellence Award
Texas Environmental Excellence Award
The State's Highest Environmental Award
Awarded By Gov. Greg Abbott's Office
$6,267,924
Savings by Litter Scout
3,013,425
Pieces of Trash
8,151 lbs
Recyclables
Kept from Landfill
30,856 lbs
Trash Kept from
Waterways
$14 Billion/Year
Litter Cost Taxpayers
4,542 Hrs
Volunteer Hours
451 Miles
Waterways Cleaned
675 Miles
Road/Parks Cleaned
390
Cubic Yard Trash
(39 Dump Trucks)
Litter Scout, a global conservation non-profit 501(c)(3), with the goal of inspiring, organizing, and engaging youth about litter and its impact on waterways. Over the last decade Litter Scout has made a significant impact on a global scale through direct litter reductions, environmental education, and advocay.
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.
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.
In Texas' Trinity River, the Alligator Snapping turtle and Texas Fawnsfoot mussel have been placed on the threats to at-risk or candidate species under the Endangered Species Act. LitterScout is passionate about securing a future for these amazing animals. Our work has led to Endangered Species Act protection for Texas turtles and mussels, and a dozen more are under status review for federal protection.
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.
