Adopt-A-Dumpster™ flagship public-participation program
Help Map America’s Trash System™.
A community-powered effort to document visible conditions around commercial waste containers and waste enclosures—so communities can learn more, improve more, and build better clean-water habits without creating a public shame map.
One useful observation at a time.
The pilot is designed to make participation fast enough for ordinary people and structured enough to create information serious partners can trust.
See
Find a commercial dumpster or waste enclosure from a lawful public location or a place where you have permission to be.Snap
Take one useful photo and allow location capture so the observation can be placed correctly.Answer
Answer a few simple questions about rain protection, loose trash or overflow, and nearby drainage.Submit
The observation is received and preserved with the original photo and participant answers.Verify
Unique, usable submissions can become verified observations after review. The first 500 will be manually reviewed.Return
Map another location, join a team, take a mission, share the challenge, or become a Community Supporter.TEMECULA 500
Help map 500 legitimate commercial waste locations through community observations. The pilot is designed to test the real workflow before the model expands.What we are testing
Photo instructions, browser GPS quality, duplicate patterns, moderation workload, scoring, teams, supporter conversion, privacy rules, and the first dataset for computer-vision testing.Prizes come later
The pilot can begin without prizes. Sponsor-funded prizes turn on only after the capture and verification workflow is proven.A map for improvement—not public shaming.
The public experience is intentionally different from the private observation record. Before property-owner opt-in, the public map should emphasize generalized zones, clusters, coverage, challenge progress, and aggregate observation categories.
Private by default
Exact authorized coordinates, original photos, and observation records can remain in the private system for verification and analysis.Public by choice
Individual site names or exact public pins appear only when appropriate permission or owner participation supports public recognition.Neutral language
Public labels focus on Observed, Verified, Participating, and Improved—not “polluter,” “illegal,” “high risk,” or other accusatory language.Missions, teams, milestones & verified improvement.
Gamification is planned around useful participation, geographic coverage, consistency, and verified improvement. It never rewards someone because a location looks “worse.”
Missions
Examples include Old Town 50, Before the Rain, Fill the Gap, a business-district blitz, a defined corridor survey, or returning later to verify an improvement.Teams
Schools, universities, businesses, Rotary/Kiwanis groups, HOAs, veteran organizations, environmental groups, and municipal volunteer teams can become structured participation pathways.Milestones
Verified observations, coverage milestones, streaks, mission completion, and verified improvement can unlock points or badges once the scoring model is proven.Serious data quality
Duplicates, unsafe, unusable, or unverifiable submissions do not earn final points. Prize-bearing challenges require verification before winners are declared.Get the observation without creating another problem.
Help fund participation—not the findings.
Community Mapping Challenge Partners can support fixed-scope challenges, education, prizes, verification, or local activation. Secure Structure Alliance controls official rules, verification, scoring, eligibility, and winner determination.
Challenge Partner
Support a defined local mapping challenge and receive value-neutral recognition tied to the challenge—not control over the results.Explore SponsorshipCommunity Supporter
Organizations can begin by documenting support, sharing education, hosting outreach, or providing practical help without making a financial commitment.Use the Commitment LetterMunicipal / research partner
Structured observations can later support defined routes, sampling methods, trained volunteers, students, researchers, nonprofits, or municipal partners.Start a Pilot ConversationWant to map with us when Temecula 500 opens?
Join the Adopt-A-Dumpster™ supporter network now. We will use the same community network to recruit the first mappers, teams, local partners, and pilot supporters.Help Map America’s Trash System™ is operated by Secure Structure Alliance through Adopt-A-Dumpster™. The pilot technology plan uses a mobile-first web experience with ArcGIS/Survey123 for field capture and StormwaterIQ™ as the analytical/data layer. The public capture and generalized public map will be activated only after the pilot workflow is ready for real submissions.