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Keep Texas Beautiful Our mission is to inspire and empower Texans to keep our communities clean and beautiful.

Our history dates back to 1967, when Texas was preparing for the 1968 Hemis Fair in San Antonio and more than 16 million tourists were expected to descend upon the state. A variety of representatives from diverse entities, including the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, decided that Texas cities and highways should be given a “facelift” so visitors would see a clean, beautiful state. To accomplish this goal, the group created a non-profit educational corporation, supported totally by membership dues, known as the Beautify Texas Council. Realizing the importance of what had been accomplished via local volunteers and their love of their communities, the Beautify Texas Council continued to support communities in their beautification efforts even after HemisFair. By 1968, the Council had supplied almost every Texas town with information on how to improve their city’s appearance. In response to enthusiastic efforts from dedicated volunteers across the state, the Council eventually increased its focus to highway beautification, environmental education and public awareness, procurement and distribution of funding and support to local volunteers, and creating and maintaining valuable relationships with state officials and agencies. In 1985, the Beautify Texas Council officially became Keep Texas Beautiful, Inc., and a state affiliate of Keep America Beautiful. Since that time, we have won top honors as an outstanding KAB state affiliate and have grown by creating an extensive affiliate program. Keep Texas Beautiful now has the largest environmental and community improvement network in the state with almost 400 community affiliates.

📣 Calling all Dallas locals! 💚⁠⁠Keep Texas Beautiful is headed to the Dallas Farmers Market this Saturday, October 17, a...
10/14/2026

📣 Calling all Dallas locals! 💚⁠
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Keep Texas Beautiful is headed to the Dallas Farmers Market this Saturday, October 17, and we want to see YOU!⁠
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We'll be celebrating our Love Dallas campaign with interactive activities, fun giveaways, and inspiration to get out, explore your city, and show some love for the places that make Dallas special. 🌳✨⁠
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Whether it's discovering a new park, supporting local businesses, picking up litter, or enjoying your favorite neighborhood spots, Love Dallas is all about finding fun, meaningful ways to care for your community.⁠
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Plus, make a day of it! The Dallas Farmers Market will have live music, local vendors, family-friendly crafts, and fall gardening activities throughout the weekend. 🌼⁠
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📍 Dallas Farmers Market
📅 Saturday, October 17 | 10 AM–2 PM⁠
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Dallas Farmers Market Keep America Beautiful Niagara Cares

City of Austin employees: you can support a cleaner, greener Texas through your workplace giving campaign! 🌿⁠⁠Keep Texas...
10/14/2026

City of Austin employees: you can support a cleaner, greener Texas through your workplace giving campaign! 🌿⁠
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Keep Texas Beautiful participates in the City of Austin Combined Charities Campaign through EarthShare Texas, giving City employees an easy way to support our work through payroll contributions.⁠
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Your gift helps KTB support communities across the state through litter prevention, beautification, recycling and environmental education.⁠
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🌎 Keep Texas Beautiful code: 1898⁠
💚 EarthShare Texas code: 1800⁠
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Thank you for considering Keep Texas Beautiful as part of your workplace giving this year!⁠
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Learn more at earthshare-texas.org.⁠
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EarthShare Texas

After a week of serious litter talk, we figured everyone could use a little more joy. 💚⁠⁠So we went digging through the ...
10/13/2026

After a week of serious litter talk, we figured everyone could use a little more joy. 💚⁠
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So we went digging through the KTB photo archives and found some of our favorite cleanup personalities.⁠
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Which friend are you? 😂⁠
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Cigarette butts don’t belong on the menu. When litter reaches the water, fish and other aquatic animals can mistake plas...
10/10/2026

Cigarette butts don’t belong on the menu. When litter reaches the water, fish and other aquatic animals can mistake plastic debris for food. Keeping butts out of our streets and waterways helps protect life beneath the surface. ⁠
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Keep America Beautiful

What looks small to us can be dangerous to wildlife. Cigarette butts can end up in the habitats animals depend on, and p...
10/09/2026

What looks small to us can be dangerous to wildlife. Cigarette butts can end up in the habitats animals depend on, and plastic litter can be mistaken for food. ⁠
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Let’s keep Texas parks, trails, and waters safer for the creatures that call them home. ⁠
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Keep America Beautiful

Rain doesn’t leave litter where it lands. Rain can carry a cigarette butt from a Texas street or sidewalk into a storm d...
10/08/2026

Rain doesn’t leave litter where it lands. Rain can carry a cigarette butt from a Texas street or sidewalk into a storm drain and toward a local waterway. Keeping it off the ground protects the places downstream. ⁠
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Keep America Beautiful

Plastic can hide in plain sight. Cigarette filters may look like cotton, but they’re made of plastic fibers that can per...
10/07/2026

Plastic can hide in plain sight. Cigarette filters may look like cotton, but they’re made of plastic fibers that can persist in the environment. Fully extinguish used ci******es and place them in a proper receptacle. ⁠
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Keep America Beautiful

Cigarette butts are a worldwide litter problem—and a Texas one. In TxDOT’s 2023 survey, they made up 29.2% of the micro-...
10/06/2026

Cigarette butts are a worldwide litter problem—and a Texas one. In TxDOT’s 2023 survey, they made up 29.2% of the micro-litter counted along Texas roadways, more than any other type. A cigarette butt is still litter, even when it’s easy to overlook. Put it where it belongs. ⁠
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Keep America Beautiful

What happens when a library lends out more than books? 🌱⁠⁠Our latest blog explores seed libraries across the Permian Bas...
10/02/2026

What happens when a library lends out more than books? 🌱⁠
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Our latest blog explores seed libraries across the Permian Basin and the different ways local partners are helping people access seeds, gardening knowledge, native plants, and hands-on learning opportunities.⁠
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From public libraries to schools to little free seed libraries, these projects show how a simple idea can grow into something much bigger: community, connection, and a little more green. 🌻⁠
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Read: https: https://ktb.org/ktb-blog/growing-community-seed-libraries-in-the-permian-basin/
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Special thanks to Mallory Sanchez (librarian + Texas Master Naturalist)for guest-blogging! ⁠
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Address

8850 Business Park Drive, Ste 200
Austin, TX
78759

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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+15124788813

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