Keep Houston Beautiful Day, April 4, 2009

Keep Houston Beautiful Day is our annual citywide cleanup event that kicks off the national "Great American Cleanup" campaign in Houston for a period of 8 weeks starting on April 4, 2009 until May 30, 2009. Past activities include de-littering neighborhood streets, ranking leaves in a city park, painting the stripes on a basketball court and planting flowers on an esplanade. Generally, each scheduled activity begins at 8:00 am and ends at noon. We hope that you will become a part of Keep Houston Beautiful Day.

We hope that you will become a part of Keep Houston Beautiful Day. For more information, please go to the "Beautification and Cleanup" page or contact us at (713) 839-8855 or email at info@houstonbeautiful.org

The Great American Cleanup™ Campaign

This is the perfect time to perk up and pick-up your community.  You can plant trees, pick up trash, paint over graffiti or do other activities to improve the appearance of your community.  Register your Great American Cleanup™ events held April 5- May 31 with Keep Houston Beautiful to receive materials and resources to help make your cleanup a success.

         ON THE TRAIL OF TRASH March 7th

Get Up, Get Out, and Get Cleaning Houston City park trails. Join Keep Houston Beautiful, Houston Parks and Recreation Department, and the Park People on June 7th to clean nine different parks around the Houston area.   Several corporate sponsors will be present to join our efforts in cleaning selected parks.

This year the event will include Bayland / Burnett Park, Mason Park, Stude/White Oak Trail, North Mac Gregor Way at Hermann Park, Oyster Creek Park, Cullen Park, Herman Brown Nature Trail, Harrisburg / Sunset Trail. We hope to see you there!

For more information about this event click here.

Bar Association Cleanup

Many of Houston's finest legal minds object to the litter cluttering up Main Street between the Pierce Elevated and Richmond Avenue. Instead of filing suit, they went a step further: they cleaned it up and plan to keep it that way.

Each year hundreds of members of the Houston Bar Association remove tens of thousands of pounds of trash as a part of the Lawyers Against Waste project. The volunteers clean up, mow, and trim close to 100 lots during the annual effort. 

In addition to Keep Houston Beautiful, a number of City of Houston departments are involved including: Parks and Recreation, Police, Neighborhood Protection, and Solid Waste Management. METRO and Harris County Mosquito Control also participate.