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For communities or organizations planning a community cleanup event or wanting to add a twist to a cleanup to try and engage volunteers in a new way, check out the Community Cleanup Challenge Toolkit. This toolkit includes resources for planning, promoting, and hosting a cleanup challenge, as well as determining challenge results and winners. Community cleanup challenges allow groups to pool promotional materials like other larger events, with the added benefit of enticing volunteers with fun, friendly competition, local rivalries, and potential bragging rights. Templates are available for challenges between local communities and challenges that are held and hosted on a regional level, and many are editable to help them fit your event needs. There are also templates available to add a “Mayor’s Challenge” aspect to the event, where mayors can issue a proclamation for the challenge against the other communities.
If you have any questions about the toolkit or need help with the templates, contact [email protected].
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Would you like to see your Adopt-A-Spot story featured in a future Spotlight? Click on the button below to complete a form and we'll share your story with the community.
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Houston-Area Adopt-A-Spot Webinars Available Online
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If you missed any of the Houston-Galveston area Adopt-A-Spot training webinars, you can find them on the Houston-Galveston Area Council's YouTube Channel.
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February 23, 2023 - At this webinar, participants explored how two resources, the Trash Free Texas Adopt-A-Spot Map and the Texas Litter Database, can assist communities and organizations in building or enhancing volunteer litter cleanup programs.
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February 24, 2022 - At this webinar, participants explored ways to use the Adopt-A-Spot website as part of new or ongoing litter cleanup efforts, saw a demonstration of adding sites to the map, and had a conversation with an Adopt-A-Spot partner who will shared success stories and answered questions.
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February 25, 2021 - At this webinar, attendees learned how to use the updated Adopt-A-Spot online tool, including how to submit new location for adoption and how to become a waterway cleanup volunteer.
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Make Plans to Participate in KTB's Annual Great American Cleanup
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Trash Bash® Volunteers Clean Up More Than 40 Tons of Trash
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The 2023 River, Lakes, Bays ‘N Bayous Trash Bash® was held on Saturday, March 25, at 14 locations across the Galveston Bay watershed. Thanks to the efforts of 2,456 volunteers, 40.51 tons of trash, 219 tires, and 0.38 tons of recyclables were removed from 108 miles of local waterways. To see a breakdown of litter removed by cleanup location and the cumulative results from the past 29 years, visit the Trash Bash® website. Trash Bash® hopes volunteers will participate again next year to “Clean It Like You Mean It !”® for the 30th anniversary of the cleanup.
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Do you have a trash clean-up or litter reduction project that’s coming up, ongoing, or recently completed? Ask for help or share your success with the Trash Free Texas Community by sharing in our quarterly update.
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