Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) and H-E-B are proud to offer The Our Texas, Our Future Grants (previously named the Green Bag Grants) program, which provides funding for new and existing programs across Texas.

Projects can fall within the following categories and can be used in both formal and informal educational settings:

• Beautification
• Litter Prevention
• Recycling
• Waste Reduction
• Water Conservation
• Wildlife Protection and Habitat Restoration

Grant Amount

Eligibility

You must be a KTB affiliate in an H-E-B service area (within 30 miles of a store) with Gold Star, Silver Star, or Good Standing affiliate status

While not a requirement, affiliates are strongly encouraged to partner with

• Local schools and/or youth groups,
• Local H-E-B stores, including Central Market, H-E-B Plus, Mi Tienda, or Joe V’s Smart Shop stores
• Recreational venues
• Government agencies
• Community organizations

Multiple projects in a community may be funded, but a separate application must be received for each distinct project.

Grant Info & Application Questions

Sample Successful Application with Budget

Next Cycle Anticipated Spring 2027

Thanks to the generous support of Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages, and in celebration of Texas Recycles Day, Keep Texas Beautiful offers grants to help communities strengthen existing local recycling programs.

Award Amount: $5,000–$25,000 

Application Submission Period: September 1, 2026 – October 15, 2026

What This Grant Supports

The Texas Recycles Day Grant is designed to support projects that make a clear, meaningful improvement to an existing local recycling program.

Competitive projects should address a specific recycling need or operational barrier and clearly explain:

• what is currently limiting recycling;
• what outcomes or improvements the project will achieve; and
• how those improvements will continue or support future recycling efforts

Projects must fall within one or more of the following categories:

Infrastructure and Equipment
Equipment or physical improvements that expand or improve recycling collection, storage, sorting, processing, transportation, measurement, or access.

Recycling Program Improvement
Projects that strengthen a recycling program by adding materials, expanding service, reducing contamination, improving efficiency or cost-effectiveness, increasing reliability, or testing a new service model.

Education and Outreach
Targeted education and outreach designed to address a specific recycling challenge, such as contamination, low participation, improper disposal, or awareness of a new or existing recycling service. Applicants should identify how the effort will be evaluated.

Special consideration will be given to projects that address the collection of PET.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants are:

• Keep Texas Beautiful affiliates in Good Standing or higher, including new KTB affiliates.
• Keep Texas Recycling partners.

Special consideration will also be given to communities that participate in both KTB and KTR.

The eligible KTB affiliate or KTR partner must be the applicant and must have an active role in managing the proposed project, grant funds, and required reporting. Schools, businesses, nonprofits, community groups, and other organizations may participate as project partners, but they may not apply independently using the name of a KTB affiliate or KTR partner.

Before You Apply

Review the Grant Guidelines for full eligibility requirements, eligible and ineligible expenses, project deadlines, and reporting requirements.

Review the Grant Guidelines

Preview the Application Questions

View a Sample Application

View a Sample Itemized Budget

For any questions, contact Corinne Hughes at chughes@ktb.org