The Trash Free Texas website now hosts four toolkits that can be used to help plan and implement various litter reduction and removal programs for your community. The four toolkits include a Clean Up Challenge Toolkit, a Recreational Litter Toolkit, a Local Government Toolkit, and a Program Toolkit for Single-Use Plastic Reduction in Restaurants. 

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].