Mean Green Junk Removal is based in Denton, and the crew that shows up at your door grew up on these roads. Alongside the paying work, we volunteer trucks, trailers, and labor for city cleanups, school events, recycling drives, and historic preservation projects across Denton County. This page is the running record of that work.
Community projects and sponsorships across Denton County
Tires recycled instead of sent to a landfill
Sustainability welcome kits packed in 90 minutes
Debris cleared from a Shady Shores fishing spot
Junk removal is a business built on other people’s hard weeks. Someone is moving, downsizing, settling an estate, or digging out after a storm. Showing up well on those days is the whole job.
Community work is that same job without an invoice. When the Town of Shady Shores finds an illegal dump site, or the City of Denton needs dumpsters loaded at a volunteer cleanup, the trucks and the crew are already here. Saying yes costs us a Saturday and gives the community back a park, a fishing spot, or a cleaner stretch of road. We do not just work in Denton. We live here.
Growing up in this area, we used to go up and down West and South Shady Shores Road all the time. Right next to the Town Hall there's an awesome fishing spot. As kids, we would walk along the lake for hours. It's truly refreshing to be able to clean up the litter and debris so that kids in the Shady Shores and Corinth area can still have an awesome lakefront to explore.
Every project below happened in or around Denton County. Where we have written a full recap, the link takes you to it.
Denton, TX | Spring 2025 | Partner: City of Denton Parks and Recreation
Each spring the City of Denton hosts its leg of Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup. Residents haul in what they have gathered from parks, alleys, and roadways, and every bag of it still has to get into a dumpster.
We put seven crew members on site for the day, plus our media team. We loaded bottles, cans, clothing, bagged garbage, and more than one abandoned shopping cart. Read the full recap.
Denton, TX | July 26, 2025 | Partner: City of Denton Environmental Services and Sustainability
The city’s Denton Recycles program hands every new apartment tenant and incoming college student a reusable welcome bag stocked with recycling guides and eco-friendly supplies. Someone has to fill the bags.
Owner Trevan Fenner, Cali Fenner, and crew member Garrett spent an afternoon at the Sustainability Office on South Mayhill Road with School Engagement Coordinator Heather Hutmacher. The goal was 300 bags in two hours. We finished 450 in an hour and a half. Read the full recap.
Shady Shores, TX | July 2025 | Partner: Town of Shady Shores
Katie Klein, who handles Community Relations and Code Enhancement for the Town of Shady Shores, found an illegal dump site on South Shady Shores Road just up from Town Hall and called us. We pulled out more than 150 pounds of litter and debris and handed the spot back to the families who fish it.
It is a stretch of shoreline our owner has known since he was a kid. Read the full recap.
Shady Shores, TX | 2025 | Partner: Stephens Elementary, Denton ISD
Owner Trevan Fenner and business partner Karsen Wingate both went to Stephens Elementary on Garza Road, and both of them remember field day as the best part of the year. When teacher Savanna Phillips needed shirts for this year’s event, we covered them.
This is the kind of sponsorship we want more of. Read the full recap.
Roanoke, TX | 2025 | Commissioned by the City of Roanoke
The City of Roanoke hired us to clear a church built in the late 1800s so it could be refurbished and relocated to Denton as a preserved historical site. The building had holes in the floor, falling ceiling tiles, and years of debris left behind by people who had been getting inside.
Five of our crew worked it with scaffolding, hand tools, and respirators. We set the pews aside for the city to restore, pulled every piece of scrap metal we could find for recycling, and hauled out the rest. This one was a paid civic project rather than volunteer work, but preserving a piece of local history mattered to us. Read the full recap.
Aubrey and Denton, TX | Partner: Denton ISD
Denton ISD holds an event where students pick up school supplies and the rest of what they need for the year. The supplies were stacked on pallets at Ray Braswell High School in Aubrey. The event was across the district at Ryan High School in Denton. That is a truck problem, and a truck is what we have.
Our crew pallet-jacked the boxes out through the Braswell lobby, loaded them, and hauled the whole lot to Ryan so the district could set up and start handing them out. Glad we could get everything moved.
Shady Shores, TX | Partners: Town of Shady Shores and Winter Oaks Stables
Winter Oaks Stables is a boarding barn on North Garza Road, a few minutes from our shop, and our owner’s mother keeps her horse there. The trail and the lakeside running past it had collected years of bottles, cans, and dumped bags.
We worked it on foot with grabbers and ran an ATV in to reach the stretches a truck cannot get to, then hauled the whole load off for the barn and the Town of Shady Shores. The truck went home full.
Two more that do not fit neatly above: one we do every November, and one we do every week.
Denton, TX | Denton Square | Every November
Mean Green Junk Removal is veteran-founded, so the Veterans Day parade around the Denton Square is the one we do not miss. The trailer goes out in flags and bunting, the Mean Green eagle rides along, and we roll the square with the antique tractors and everyone else who turns out for it.
Denton County | Ongoing
Tires are among the hardest things to dispose of responsibly and among the most common things people ask us to take. We haul them out by the trailer load and run them to a tire recycler instead of a landfill. More than 7,800 so far, including collection runs with the Town of Shady Shores.
We are expanding our support for local teams, schools, and nonprofit organizations across Denton County. Sponsored organizations will be listed here, with links to their sites, as the program rolls out.
If your team, school, or nonprofit is looking for a local sponsor, we would like to hear from you. Call or text 940-758-5300 or send us a message.
Call or text 940-758-5300, or send a message through our contact page. Tell us the date, the location, and roughly how much material you expect. We work with cities, schools, churches, HOAs, and nonprofits across Denton County and the wider DFW Metroplex.
Yes. We sort loads on site and route usable items to donation through our network of local community partners, and we recycle what we can, including scrap metal, cardboard, electronics, and tires. The landfill is the last option, not the first.
We do. We covered field day shirts for Stephens Elementary in Shady Shores, and we are building out a broader sponsorship program for Denton County teams, schools, and nonprofits. Reach out if you are looking for a local sponsor.
Our community work is concentrated in Denton County: Denton, Shady Shores, Corinth, Lake Dallas, Aubrey, Krum, Sanger, Argyle, Roanoke, Lewisville, and Flower Mound. We serve the full DFW Metroplex commercially and will travel further for the right project.
Both. Our volunteer cleanups, sponsorships, and event support are donated time, equipment, and money. A few civic projects, such as the historic church cleanout for the City of Roanoke, were paid jobs the city commissioned. We label which is which on this page so there is no confusion.
Mean Green Junk Removal is veteran-founded and family-owned. Trevan Fenner owns it and runs it with business partner Karsen Wingate. Both grew up in the Shady Shores and Denton area and went to Stephens Elementary on Garza Road. The company has served Denton and the DFW Metroplex since 2020.
Cleanup day, a school event, a donation run, or a sponsorship. If it is in Denton County and it needs trucks, trailers, and people who know how to load them, tell us what you are planning.
