April is Keep America Beautiful Month (April 1, 2021) - Keep America Beautiful® Month in April celebrates the work led by our nearly 700 state and community-based affiliates, local partners, businesses, public officials, and millions of passionate volunteers. As the...
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Masks and Other PPE Causing Environmental Concerns
Naz TodayKaytlin StevensMarch 4, 2021 Personal protective equipment has started to gain attention from environmental protection groups. Masks, gloves and wipes have become the most popular litter recently and the pollution is causing concern. NAZ Today's Kaytlin...
For the People: Keep America Beautiful ‘Trash Dash’ – Smilow Closer to Free Ride – Center for Family Justice
For the People Podcast, Connoisseur MediaPodcast Host - John Voket "Today we're talking about 'plogging' - which incorporates picking up litter while jogging - and how you can discover plogging on September 20 as Keep America Beautiful launches it's 2020 Trash Dash in...
Parks forced to close due to record amounts of litter
KGUN9June 15, 2020By Stephanie Stone, Scripps National Correspondent VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. – Some public lands are closing again, but not because of the coronavirus, because of litter and huge crowds. Paradise Falls, a hidden waterfall in Ventura County, California,...
Opinion: Let’s clean up our act, America
Stamford AdvocateApril 22, 2020By Helen Lowman In the face of a global health crisis, we are seeing a national epidemic of littered gloves, wipes, and other personal protective equipment (PPE). For me and the millions of volunteers Keep America Beautiful represents,...
SWANA, KAB Urge Proper Disposal of Gloves, Masks
The coronavirus has caused an uptick in improperly discarded gloves and masks. Waste360April 8, 2020By Waste360 Staff A substantial increase in improperly discarded gloves and masks causes concern for the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA). As the use of...
Stamford-based Keep America Beautiful: Remember to properly dispose of wipes, gloves, masks
Greenwich TimeApril 8, 2020Staff Reports STAMFORD — Keep America Beautiful, a national nonprofit organization based in Stamford, issued an urgent call this week by asking all Americans to properly dispose of cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE),...
Ten Ways to Celebrate Keep America Beautiful Month – April 2020
It’s April – and that means it’s Keep America Beautiful® Month! As communities across the country practice social distancing, there are still ways to join the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization and make an impact in your community –...
12 Ways to Celebrate America Recycles Day
A roundup of 12 events and activities taking place across the country in the coming days. Waste360 Nov. 15, 2018 By Mallory Szczepanski On America Recycles Day, which is backed by Keep America Beautiful, nonprofits, communities, companies and individuals come...
Let’s get a Scout or Venturer on Keep America Beautiful’s Youth Advisory Council
Keep America Beautiful is a nonprofit group that’s trying to end littering and improve recycling to clean up our communities. So when they turn to young people for guidance, it makes sense to include some Scouts and Venturers in the conversation. Bryan on Scouting...