Keep Texas Beautiful Accomplishments

Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB), a statewide grassroots environmental organization and affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, strives to educate and engage Texans through responsibility for improving their community environment. KTB works with government, business, civic groups, and volunteers to ensure that every Texan has the opportunity to take individual responsibility for making Texas the cleanest, most beautiful state in the nation. The results in this summary are from Keep Texas Beautiful’s Fiscal Year 2007, FY07 (September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2007).

Click here to download 2006-2007 results (PDF)


Who Keeps Texas Beautiful? We Do.

• Great American Cleanup, March 1 – May 31, 2007
  4,179 events
  131,006 volunteers
  14.3 million pounds of litter and debris collected
  2.3 million pounds of aluminum/steel collected for recycling
  7,551 trees planted
  682 environmental education workshops held
  
  
• Don’t Mess with Texas Trash-Off, April 14, 2007
  1,947 events
  48,087 volunteers
  9,265 miles cleaned
  3.2 million pounds of litter and debris collected
  
  
• Texas Waterway Cleanup Program, Fall 2006 - Spring 2007
  290 cleanup and water quality education events
  34,960 volunteers
  1,268 miles of waterways cleaned
  1.09 million pounds of debris collected
  
  
• Youth Program, FY07
  11 Waste In Place trainings held across the state
  253 educators trained in the Waste In Place curriculum
  82 campuses joined the KTB campus affiliate program
  
  
• 40th Annual Conference, July 10-13, 2007, San Antonio, TX
  672 attendees
  24 education sessions
  $93,600 raised in sponsorships
  
  
• Governor’s Community Achievement Awards & KTB Awards
  79 communities applied for the GCAA
  113 applications were submitted for KTB Awards