Aransas County Navigation District
Center for Coastal Studies
City of Port Aransas
City of Portland
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Coastal Bend Council of Governments
Friends of Padre
Goose Island State Park
Keep Aransas County Beautiful
Lake Corpus Christi State Park
LyondellBasell
Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve
Mustang Island State Park
Nueces County Coastal Parks
Nueces River Authority
Padre Island National Seashore
Port of Corpus Christi Authority
Refugio County
Texas Adopt A Beach
Texas Master Naturalist Mid Coast Chapter
Texas Master Naturalist South Texas Chapter
Texas State Aquarium
Valero

Interested in becoming a distribution partner? Contact the CBBEP at 361-336-0304 or [email protected].

Up2U bags are distributed at manned and unmanned distribution sites hosted by project partners throughout the Coastal Bend.  Use the map to find a location near you!

Up2U PLUS is a program designed to prevent bulk trash from reaching our waterways by targeting illegal dumping in Texas Coastal Bend watersheds. The project removed barriers (e.g., cost, accessibility) that can prevent correct disposal of illegally dumped items by providing disposal dumpsters, cleaning up existing dump sites, and improving community awareness of problems associated with illegal dumping.

Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program received financial support from the US EPA under an Assistance Agreement to implement this project, which served rural communities in the Coastal Bend. Project partners included the Nueces River Authority and the Coastal Bend Council of Governments.  The program ran for three years and ended December 2024.  If you would like further information please contact the CBBEP at 361-336-0311 or [email protected].

When it rains in the Coastal Bend, the rain washes down the streets into the ditches or gutters along the road, but do you know where it goes from there? It makes its way through more ditches or underground pipes and eventually is discharged into the bay. When this happens, the water takes with it all the trash along the way, so all that trash ends up in our bays and estuaries. This is very bad for all the fish and wildlife that live in and near our bays, fish and birds can eat the trash, or become tangled up in it. But you can help by taking the Up2U Challenge!

Grab a litter bag and have your own trash clean up. Every piece of trash you pick up is one less piece that will end up in the bay harming our fish and wildlife. Fill any Up2U bag with trash, have someone take your picture with the bag of trash and share it on social media with the hashtag #Up2UTexas.

For more information about the Up2U Litter Prevention Campaign contact the CBBEP at 361-336-0304 or [email protected].

Radio Jingles

Up2U+ Los Palominos – English 
Up2U+ Los Palominos – Spanish

Up2U Litter Prevention – English

Media

Up2U+ Media Advisory, October 2022

The Edge_CBBEP Expands Litter Prevention Campaign to Target Illegal Dumping, April 2022

The Edge_CBBEP Receives EPA Grant for Up2U Litter Prevention Campaign, May 2020

For more information about the Up2U Litter Prevention Campaign or Up2U+ contact the CBBEP at 361-336-0304 or [email protected].