Pengweather & UCP: TRASHFORCE 2025 - MAY 2025
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Pengweather + Urban Compassion Project: TRASHFORCE 2025
We’re teaming up. The Bay Area's cleanup legend and trash warrior, Peng, and the relentless force of Urban Compassion Project, are joining hands in a powerful yearlong collaboration to clean up the Bay Area faster, more efficiently, and with dignity.
Illegal dumping is dangerous, demoralizing, and disproportionately impacts our homeless neighbors. That’s why we’re doubling down on a solution that works.
In 2025 alone, we've collected over 100 tons of illegally dumped trash across the Bay Area — with help from Urban Compassion Project's (UCP) Homeless Ambassador Program, which empowers local homeless residents with stipends and equipment to maintain cleanliness in their areas and report illegal dumping. Since 2021, UCP has collected over 2100+ tons of trash.
Now, we’re scaling.
We’re asking for your help to raise $19,100 to fund the following for MAY 2025.
- 9 Homeless Ambassadors with weekly stipends for the duration of 2025 ($3,600) - 4 weeks* $100 per ambassador * 9 ambassadors
- A skid steer to move massive piles fast (rental) ($4,500)
- Dump trailers to get it all to the landfill for week day and weekend cleanups ($10,000)
- Essential supplies like bags, PPE, rakes, and shovels ($1,000)
This will allow us to host multiple cleanups every week, expand to new neighborhoods, and deter illegal dumping before it starts.
Track all our efforts here:
Co-organizers (3)
Supriya Golas
Organizer
Oakland, CA
Andrew W
Co-organizer
Vincent Williams
Co-organizer