This America Recycles Day, Keep America Beautiful offers tips and resources for safely recycling tricky materials like batteries, cigarette butts, styrofoam, and more.
Cigarette Litter Prevention Program
Keep America Beautiful to Award Up to $375K in Grants to Combat Cigarette Litter
Keep America Beautiful® is accepting applications for the 2024 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP) Grants. The initiative aims to reduce the amount of cigarette waste disposed of in public spaces and waterways through collection and recycling.
Exploring the Path to a Waste-Free Future: A Conversation with TerraCycle
Learn about innovative solutions for hard-to-recycle materials, the economics behind recycling, and how circular thinking can transform everyday items
Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful Receives State Recycling Award for Cigarette Litter Prevention Project with Dollywood
Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful wins ‘2023 Nonprofit Recycler of the Year’ for their Dollywood partnership, recycling 350,000 cigarette butts since 2021.
YEAR IN REVIEW: 2022 BRINGS NEW LEADER, PRE-PANDEMIC RESULTS, AND TRI-SECTOR EVENT AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL®
STAMFORD, Conn. (December 20, 2022) – As the year ends, Keep America Beautiful® reflects on the major milestones and achievements that helped in the mission to clean, green, and beautify America in 2022. Founded in 1953, Keep America Beautiful is the nation’s leading...
COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY UNITE TO STOMP-OUT AND RECYCLE CIGARETTE LITTER IN HONOR OF AMERICA RECYCLES DAY
TerraCycle and Local Keep America Beautiful Chapters Team-Up to Beautify Spaces & Recycle the World’s Most Littered Item while Earning Donations for Nonprofits TRENTON, NJ (November 15, 2022) – In recognition of America Recycles Day, TerraCycle, the world’s leader...
First-of-its-kind: Dollywood becomes first theme park to recycle plastic from every cigarette butt collected in receptacles on property
Last year, Dollywood partnered with the river cleanup nonprofit, Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful (KTNRB), on a massive cigarette litter prevention project, making Dollywood the first theme park in the world to recycle the plastic from every cigarette butt collected in guest-facing receptacles on its property.
Keep America Beautiful Releases Largest Study on Litter in America
National Nonprofit Announces Top-Line Results from Landmark Litter Study STAMFORD, Conn. (April 22, 2021) – Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement for-impact organization, today released data from its 2020 study on litter in America. The...
Keep America Beautiful Presents 47 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program Grants to Organizations throughout the United States
STAMFORD, Conn. (May 28, 2020) – Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s largest community improvement nonprofit organization, today announced it has awarded 47 grants to Keep America Beautiful community-based affiliates and partner organizations for its 2020 Cigarette...