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  • Trash Bash 2025

    Trash Bash 2025

    The 31st Annual Trash Bash®

    What is Trash Bash 2025?

    Join us on Saturday, March 29th for the 31st annual Trash Bash!

    Trash Bash is the largest, single-day waterway cleanup in Texas.  Volunteers do all the work to help restore a vital part of the Texas geography.

    The annual event was founded by the Houston-Galveston Area Council and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in 1994.  Starting with seven sites and 3,000 volunteers, Trash Bash has grown to 16 sites across the Galveston Bay Watershed, with an average of more than 4,000 volunteers each year.

    Managed by the Texas Conservation Fund, the bash receives additional coordination and guidance from H-GAC and its coordination committee.

    Financing comes in part through grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.  Trash Bash 2025 is an approved recipient for TCEQ Supplemental Environmental Project funds.

    This is making a difference

    In the 30 years and counting of the Trash Bash, look what has been picked up and removed from our waterways:

    • 2,400 total tons of trash
    • 5 tons of recyclable materials
    • 11,965 tires

    It’s mind-boggling to think of all the damage this waste could have done to the waterway if so many inspired volunteers hadn’t given their time to help clean it out.

    Be a sponsor

    In addition to volunteers to work on the ground, Trash Bash 2025 also needs sponsors to help defer costs.  TGB Group has proudly served as a SILVER SPONSOR supported a number of bashes, and we’ve found it amazingly rewarding.  If, like us, you’re committed to keeping Texas clean and beautiful, consider being a sponsor for this great event.

    We hope to see you out in Galveston Bay in March 2025.  Let’s do this for Texas!

    The TGB Group

     

  • Get Ready for the 28th River, Lakes, Bays ‘N Bayous Trash Bash 2022

    Everybody will have fun at Trash Bash 2022!

    Get Ready for the 28th River, Lakes, Bays ‘N Bayous Trash Bash 2022

    We’ll be working in-person as a team while maintaining safety precautions

    TGB Group is excited to once again participate in the River, Lakes, Bays ‘N Bayous Trash Bash 2022, and after difficult recent years due to the pandemic, we’re glad that it’s going to be a genuine in-person event again.

    The Trash Bash, which we’ve supported for many years, is the largest single-day waterway cleanup in Texas.  We’re expecting a great time and a lot of important accomplishments from the many volunteers this year.

    Public safety at Trash Bash 2022

    The event is being held on March 26, 2022, so mark your calendars.  Running under the slogan, “Clean it Like You Mean It,” the event will be actual and not virtual, but organizers will still follow important public health guidelines.

    Key guidelines include:

    • Masks are recommended, particularly during registration, lunch time and when collecting supplies
    • Maintain the usual six-foot distance between yourself and others
    • Don’t attend the Trash Bash if you have Covid-like symptoms, have tested positive or have been exposed to someone who has tested positive

    About Trash Bash

    The mission of Trash Bash is to clean up and promote a healthy Galveston Bay (Texas) watershed.  It was created in 1994 by the Houston-Galveston Area Council and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

    The first year launched with about 3,000 volunteers working at seven sites.  The event has since grown to approximately 4,000 volunteers each year with a cleanup area involving 16 sites across the Galveston Bay Watershed.

    Trash Bash is managed by the Texas Conservation Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization, with additional guidance and leadership from its Coordination Committee and H-GAC.

    How to get involved

    Check out the official Trash Bash site and learn more about public safety guidelines, how to register, site locations where you or your team can work and a lot more.

    We hope more and more people find a little time in their schedules to help this worthy cause and keep Texas clean.

    The TGB Team

  • Clean it Like You Mean it: Trash Bash 2021

    Clean it Like You Mean it: Trash Bash 2021

    Come out and help our environment by picking up waterway trash in the Houston area

    If you’re not otherwise engaged on the weekend of March 27, 2021, consider joining us for a great time hanging out with trash.  No, not that kind of trash.  We’re talking about the kind of trash that pollutes our waterways and therefore our environment.

    It’s the 28th annual River, Lakes, Bays ‘N Bayous Trash Bash to support the Texas Conservation Fund.  It’s easy to get involved, and it’s fun for everybody.

    The conservation fund was launched in 1985 to advance America’s land and water legacy.  Working with a variety of partners, the fund focuses on conserving land, training leaders and investing in conservation.  It is headquartered in Arlington, Va., and has saved more than 6,000,000 acres of land throughout all 50 states.

    What happens at the Trash Bash?

    It’s one big clean-up, with thousands of volunteers who care about our planet gathering along waterways in Texas and removing the trash that could spoil and ruin our natural lands.  The Bash grows every year, and every year we add to the massive amount of trash we’ve picked up since the project started in 1994.

    Get more information on the weekend’s agenda as it becomes available here.  Also, learn more about how this year’s event is being billed as a “virtual” event to keep people safe during the COVID-19 situation.

    About the Bash

    Trash Bash is financed in part by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grants through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.  Trash Bash is approved to receive TCEQ Supplemental Environmental Project funds.

    The event is the largest single-day waterway cleanup event in Texas.  Trash Bash was founded in 1994 by the Houston-Galveston Area Council and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.  The inaugural Bash saw 3,000 volunteers working at seven sites.

    By 2020, the event had grown to cover 16 sites across the Galveston Bay Watershed with more than 4,000 volunteers taking part.

    Some of our team will be there this year to give a little of our time.  We encourage you to make a space in your schedule to give some of your own time to suport this very worthy cause.

    The TGB Group Team