As part of the Great American Cleanup, Keep Brevard Beautiful partners each year with local cities for a friendly challenge called Trash Bash to see which municipality can organize the most volunteers and remove the most trash from their area.

Rules and requirements are submitted for all cities wishing to participate. Click here to view.

Important Trash Bash Dates:
March 21st: Final date for Cite Captain forms and T-shirt Sponsorships
April 1st: Trash Bash Luncheon

April 6th: Trash Bash

April 11th: Return all supplies & paperwork
April 12th: Trash Bash Winning Announcement

Scheduling: All cleanup activities counted toward a city’s Trash Bash total must take place during a one-day time period. Cleanups should occur on April 6th. Cleanups can be performed at as many locations within a city as that city is willing to be responsible for organizing. Cleanups should be scheduled from 8am-noon.

Cleanup Coordination: Cities are responsible for recruiting volunteers and site captains for each site. Site captains can be city staff or trusted volunteers and will be responsible for:

● Organizing volunteers

● Conveying safety information

● Tracking volunteers and amount of trash collected

● Pick-up, Distribute, and re-collecting supplies

● Disposing of trash in public dumpsters or coordinating KBB trash pickup

Each city should have an overall coordinator who is responsible for:

● Collecting volunteer and trash collection data from site captains

● Submitting total data for the city to KBB staff

● Picking up cleanup supplies and education/safety information at the KBB offices during the April 1st luncheon (noon-1:30pm) and returning these supplies any time before April 11th.

A site list and contact information for site captains at each site should be submitted to KBB by March 7th, along with an estimated number of volunteers per site, and total number of t-shirts (size and quantity).

Cleanup Tracking & Prizes: Site captains will be provided with a form to track volunteers and trash collection. Each volunteer must sign in on this form and sign out with their final number of volunteer hours and bags of trash collected (30 gallon bags). City coordinators should submit scans of these forms and a final tally for the city by 4pm on April 11th so that winners can be declared and results announced to media. The cities with the most volunteers and the highest total for pounds of trash collected (# of 30lb bags x 20lbs each) will each receive $500 donated to the nonprofit of their choice by Waste Management

For further questions and to report event statistics, please contact Joshua Hindman at Joshua.hindman@keepbrevardbeautiful.org or 321-631-0501

The mission of Keep Brevard Beautiful is to develop, motivate, educate, and activate community partners to reduce litter, recycle, beautify, and sustain the environment for the benefit of Brevard County

Download Rules and Participation Agreement