Trash Pandas Community Cleanup 🦝

We are a collaborative group of people who all want to do the same thing: to help create a safe and clean environment for our generation and future generations.

Originally this Meetup group began as a clean up sub-committee of the S3 Santa Fe Housing Initiative Community Volunteers (now known as Santa Fe Housing for All Collaborative) but has grown to include many other volunteer groups and non-profits in the Santa Fe area: The City of Santa Fe, Keep Santa Fe Beautiful, Santa Fe Watershed Association, The Governor's Office Breaking Bad Habits campaign, La Tierra Trails Cleanup Crew, Casa Alegre Neighborhood Association, Full Circle Santa Fe and more!

While we were first formed to assist with housing and unhoused individuals in Santa Fe, we understand we are a community with a desire to clean up litter. We love our City and State and thrive when we work together; ONE place to sign up for a cleanup because we are ONE community helping each other where we can!

We call ourselves the “Trash Pandas"; a nickname for raccoons who pillage trash!

If you want to volunteer to help cleanup, please sign up for an upcoming event. If you know of an area that needs a cleanup and would like to co-host your own event, please join our Meetup group and reach out to us!

We are excited to meet you at the next event!

Publicity:
Pre-Earth Day Cleanups Planned in New Mexico - 4/17/26
Richard Eeds Radio Show - 4/6/23
Uphill push for ROCk - 3/24/26
Drop-off Discouraging Dumping - 1/17/26
Watershed Health and Housing Justice: An intersection - 1/11/26
Human Face of Homelessness - 11/29/25
Awash In Encampments - Santa Fe New Mexican - 7/27/25
Governor helps jump-start Great American Cleanup in Santa Fe - 4/8/25
Santa Fe New Mexican's "10 Who Made A Difference" Award - 11/30/24

NOTE FROM ORGANIZERS: We’re currently raising funds to cover the costs associated with running this Meetup group. Help keep this group going and help keep Santa Fe safe and clean! We calculated that we have removed more than 22 tons of litter from the community from February 2023 to November 2025, Every dollar you contribute to this group truly makes a positive impact! DONATIONS ARE ACCEPTED AT EACH CLEAN UP.