Waterway Cleanup Program
Looking for a fun way to improve your community environment? Organize a cleanup event to improve and maintain the quality of surface water. When you register your event with Keep Houston Beautiful, we will help your cleanup with free supplies, such as garbage bags, litter-grabbers, gloves, volunteer giveaway items and much more to any Texan interested in protecting our local waterways. The program, a partnership between Keep Texas Beautiful and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, helps support the cleanup of lakes, rivers, creeks, ponds, wetlands and other inland, freshwater areas. Sign-up your group with Keep Texas Beautiful.
Neighborhood Weekend Cleanup and Vacant Lot Cleanup
The Neighborhood Protection Corps., Keep Houston Beautiful, District Council Members, Houston Parks and Recreation Department, Houston Police Department, Mayor's Citizens Assistance Office, Public Works and Engineering, Republic Waste Services, Harris County, Solid Waste Management, and the Planning and Development Department join together to coordinate neighborhood weekend cleanups. We maintain a warehouse with tools that you will need for your cleanup. Please click on the link to the right to download the Cleanup Request and to reserve tools from our warehouse. Clean Up Request Form
Calendar of Events and Volunteer Opportunities
Check-out the KHB calendar of events. Have you been looking for volunteer opportunities for your company, organization, neighborhood association or other groups? Keep Houston Beautiful has launched a new service for groups planning beautification and cleanup projects and will post these events weekly. Volunteers will be able to find a new real-time calendar of events in their area of interest.
View the Calendar of Events and Volunteer Opportunities.
Adopt - An - Esplanade
The city of Houston has a total of 2,240 acres of esplanades. Residents are ready and willing to adopt these areas. Through a grant from the Texas Forest Service, Keep Houston Beautiful in partnership with the Houston Parks and Recreation Department has published a new user-friendly Adopt-An-Esplanade Guide. The Guide includes simple easy to follow instructions including a unique flowchart to lead residents through the procedure efficiently. Adopt-An-Esplanade Guide
For additional information, contact:
Marilu De La Fuente, Adopt-An-Esplanade Coordinator
marilu.delafuente@cityofhouston.net
832-395-7029
Keep Our Neighborhood Clean
For information about reporting illegal dumping, call 713-837-0311 or go to the Houston Police Department Neighborhood Protection Corps. This includes information on open and dangerous buildings, weeded lots, junk motor vehicles, graffiti, nuisances on private property.
Clean Sweep U.S.A.
With a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Keep America Beautiful has launched Clean Sweep U.S.A., a Web site designed to provide students, teachers and families with information about real-world issues concerning waste. The Web site contains resources related to garbage, source reduction, composting, recycling, waste–to–energy and landfills. The Clean Sweep U.S.A. web site is based upon existing, proven Keep America Beautiful curricula and research materials. The online modules are correlated to national educational standards and provide education on how individuals can manage waste to reduce its impact on the environment. Click on the link below to visit the Clean Sweep U.S.A. Web site.
Keep Houston Beautiful will be kicking off the Great American Cleanup Campaign TM on Saturday, April 10, 2010. If you would like to organize a cleanup campaign in your neighborhood, please complete the form listed below and return it to our office.
Keep Houston Beautiful Day flyer
Want to be a Superhero?
Visit www.kabman.org to find out how!
Go Green Houston AT H-E-B
The Go Green at H-E-B program has been cancelled.