Texas Environmental Excellence Award
The State's Highest Environmental Award
DFW Directors Association
Supreme Service Award
Keep Texas Beautiful
Ruthe Jackson Award
21,030,750
Pieces of Trash
$10,515,375
Savings by LitterScout
42,381 lbs
Trash Kept from
Waterways
11,151 lbs
Recyclables
Kept from Landfill
Messenger Of Peace
Champion Award
$14 Billion/Year
Litter Cost Taxpayers
4,942 Hrs
Volunteer Hours
512
Cubic Yard Trash
(51 Dump Trucks)
451 Miles
Waterways Cleaned
675 Miles
Road/Parks Cleaned
LitterScout empowers youth and communities to take action against plastic pollution through hands-on cleanups, education, and sustainable practices. By fostering environmental stewardship and providing innovative tools, LitterScout inspires the next generation to protect our planet for the future.
Our free LitterScout App allows users to report, organize, and track litter cleanup efforts in real time, making it easier for individuals, and groups(classrooms) to plan cleanups, collect data, and measure impact. The app also serves as a digital toolkit—offering location mapping, litter statistics, educational tips, and volunteer coordination tools, making environmental action more accessible and data driven. This technology has decentralized cleanup efforts, helping scale the project beyond LitterScout’s home state and empowering communities worldwide to take ownership of their environment.
Alexa Skill, Sustainable Living, promote easy environmental learning with daily tips.
We recently introduced Mwalimu (“teacher” in Swahili), a low cost Raspberry Pi device designed to bring offline educational access to rural and underserved areas. Mwalimu works as a portable WiFi server, giving users access to 7 million+ Wikipedia articles, 60,000+ books, environmental lessons, medical encyclopedia, and more, all without needing internet access. It’s now being piloted in two communities to expand environmental education where digital tools are out of reach.
Litter Scout, a conservation non-profit 501(c)(3), over the last decade Litter Scout has made a significant impact on a global scale through direct litter reductions, environmental education, and advocacy.
Join the movement to clean up our communities and keep recyclables from the landfill & litter from
our waterways. It's estimated that 75% of the waste in our waterway come from land sources.
Every year, 11 million metric tons of plastics enter our oceans on top of the 200 million tons that
circulates in our marine environment. When marine life ingest litter, it can cause internal
and external wounds, blockage of the digestive system, decrease mobility, and toxicity.
Reporting litter, Organize a clean-up, and Engage in a clean-up.
Report(litter location), Organize(form a group), & Engage(clean-up)!
Why Participate?
Organize
Engage
Report
About Us
Using the principles of the Scout Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace Principles, we promote sustainable methods and protect the health of parks, waterways, and communities through crowdsourcing of information, resources, and action.
Outdoor Code
As an citizen, I will do my best to-
Be clean in my outdoor manners.
Be careful with fire.
Be considerate in the outdoors.
Be conservation-minded.
Be clean in my outdoor manners.
Be careful with fire.
Be considerate in the outdoors.
Be conservation-minded.
Leave No Trace
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors
