SoCal Trash Army is a volunteer-run grassroots group that began in 2020 by organizing outdoor cleanups in the San Bernardino area, including at Lytle Creek. During those early cleanups, volunteers met unhoused neighbors and heard about the challenges they faced.
Those conversations led the group to expand into mutual aid. SoCal Trash Army held its first community meal on Thanksgiving in 2020 and went on to organize regular food distributions for unhoused neighbors and others experiencing food insecurity in the Inland Empire.
