Texans for Clean Water: America’s Next 250 Years

For nearly two and a half centuries, this country has built, innovated, manufactured, and overcome challenges through hard work, ingenuity, and a belief that America’s best days are always ahead.

America became an economic powerhouse because we understood the value of production, infrastructure, industry, and opportunity. We built railroads, ports, factories, pipelines, power plants, highways, and the most productive industrial economy the world has ever seen.

But today, America wastes enormous amounts of the very materials that modern industry depends on.

Every day, billions of dollars worth of aluminum, plastic, and glass are buried in landfills, lost to litter, or washed into waterways instead of being recovered and put back to work in the American economy. Valuable materials drift through storm drains and bayous while manufacturers search for reliable domestic supply and communities spend millions cleaning up pollution and debris.

And it is not the future Texas should accept.

The good news is that Americans know how to solve problems when we decide something matters. Across the country, better recovery systems are already reducing litter, strengthening domestic supply chains, and recovering cleaner, higher-value materials that can go directly back into manufacturing.

That is the kind of practical, forward-looking approach Texans believe in.

Not wasting valuable resources.

Not relying unnecessarily on foreign materials.

Not allowing waterways and public spaces to become dumping grounds for materials that still have economic value.

This is about cleaner communities, stronger supply chains, and building systems worthy of America’s next 250 years.

Because America should not be throwing away the materials it needs to build its future.

As we celebrate Independence Day and America’s 250th anniversary, Texans for Clean Water remains committed to advancing practical, industry-driven solutions that reduce waste, recover value, strengthen American manufacturing, and help protect the waterways and communities we all care about.

America built great systems before.

We can build better ones again.

Don’t Waste America.

Sincerely,

Joe Trotter

Texans For Clean Water