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News & Events

Six Simple Steps to Start Your Zero-Waste Journey

Mar 28, 2025

Start your journey towards a zero-waste lifestyle and learn how small changes can make a big impact in your community.

Keep America Beautiful Challenges Every American to Pick Up Litter

Mar 20, 2025

Join the #Greatest25 Litter Challenge and help clean up America! Pick up 25 pieces of litter by Earth Day and make a difference.

Breaking Down Barriers: What Holds Us Back from Picking Up Litter?

Mar 20, 2025

This episode of “Do Beautiful Things” reveals new Harris Poll insights on litter—its impact, cleanup barriers, and what drives action.

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Keep Cincinnati Beautiful joined the Greatest American Cleanup because it’s a great celebration, and [cleaning up] 25 billion pieces of trash is going to make a big difference. We’ve been working with individual Cincinnatians to make sure that Cincinnati is the cleanest city in the Midwest and hopefully at some point, the cleanest city in the country.

– Jonathan Adee, Keep Cincinnati Beautiful

Keep Conyers-Rockdale Beautiful joined the Great American Cleanup to strengthen community pride and show that consistent, hands-on action leads to real, visible change. It’s more than just a cleanup, it’s a movement to improve our community.

– Darlissha Tillman-Sadler, Keep Conyers-Rockdale Beautiful

Keep Liberty Beautiful joined the Greatest American Cleanup to unite our community in creating a cleaner, greener, and more beautiful place to live. It’s a powerful way to inspire pride, action, and environmental responsibility across all ages and neighborhoods.

– Dr. Karen Bell, Keep Liberty Beautiful

At Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful, we’re all about the celebration of our community members’ successes for the Tennessee River watershed, and the Greatest American Cleanup campaign allows us to join in on that kind of celebration at a national scale.

– Kathleen Gibi, Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful

We joined the Greatest American Cleanup because litter isn’t just unsightly—it harms our environment, our economy, and our sense of community. This campaign empowers people to take action and reminds us that every cleanup and every tree and flower planted is a step toward a more beautiful Aiken County.

– Kandace Cave, Keep Aiken County Beautiful

We joined the Greatest American Cleanup to have a local impact on the fight against litter, and to enable the local towns and communities in Orangeburg County to get involved by taking the KAB pledge. We know it takes us all working together for a cleaner, more beautiful Orangeburg County.

-Lisa Rigden (Keep Orangeburg County Beautiful)

The effort we put in is rewarded with instant gratification. 🌻 🐝
Crista Lukoski (Keep Newberry County Beautiful)

We joined the Greatest American Cleanup to be an example that we hope to have others follow in our mission.
Paula Rhodes (Keep Hampton County Beautiful)