How To Participate

Volunteers make the Basura Bash community-wide clean-up possible.

From its beginning in 1994 through last year, more than 21,753 volunteers have participated in the event’s history collecting trash, recyclables and tires from the banks of the San Antonio River and its tributaries.

The trash alone is enough to fill more than 30 garbage trucks like this one pictured. 

Volunteers have five ways of participating:

1. Register as an individual to participate in Basura Bash
2. Register as part of a group to participate in Basura Bash
3. Registering as a group to participate in the Adopt-a-River program
4. Become a member of the Basura Bash Planning Organization
5. Become a Sponsor or Partner of Basura Bash