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Why Become an Affiliate?. Programs Resources Metrics. Keep America Beautiful Programs. Litter Prevention Cigarette Litter Prevention Littering is Wrong, Too. Keep Lexington Beautiful. Cigarette Litter Prevention $8,000 grants from Keep America Beautiful
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Why Become an Affiliate? Programs Resources Metrics
Keep America Beautiful Programs • Litter Prevention • Cigarette Litter Prevention • Littering is Wrong, Too
Keep Lexington Beautiful Cigarette Litter Prevention • $8,000 grants from Keep America Beautiful • Target: Hospitals, restaurants, golf course • Canisters, pocket ash trays, auto ash trays • 60-80% reduction in cigarette litter
How has Keep America Beautiful helped? Litter: Littering law changed • KLB sought change • Option for civil or criminal citation • 2012 General Assembly House Bill 63 • Ordinance 146-2012
Keep America Beautiful Programs • Beautification • Great American Cleanup National Partners Supplies • Graffiti Hurts Grants
Great American Cleanup 2013 48 events 3005 volunteers 7,202 pounds of litter collected 30.5 miles of streets, roads, cleaned 35 acres of parks cleaned
Keep America Beautiful Programs Waste Reduction America Recycles Day IWanttobeRecycled Recycle-Bowl RecycleMania
Waste Reduction • 2013 America Recycles Day paper shred event • 570 cars, 27,000 pounds of paper shredded, recycled • 1,100 pounds of cardboard collected
Waste Reduction-Recycle-Bowl 2013 • 19 Public/Private schools competed • 4,180 pounds of aluminum cans collected • National competition: Lexington schools took 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 8th place in Kentucky • Partners: KLB, Wise Recycling, Central KY Fiber, City of Lexington
Keep America Beautiful Resources • Grants • Cigarette Litter Prevention • Waste Management Think Green • DOW Community Paint • UPS Community Tree Planting • Dr. Pepper/Snapple Public Park Recycling Bin • Troy Bilt Taking Root • Lowes Community Improvement
Lowes Community Improvement Richmond Road Stream Project • $20,000 grant in 2012: 84 tons of honeysuckle, 1.5 tons of trash removed, 100 native trees, shrubs planted • 2013: 40 volunteers removed .5 tons of trash, provided maintenance for trees & shrubs
Keep America Beautiful Resources • Information KAB Affiliate Forums Webinars National Conference Staff Social Media, story telling KAB Youth Council
Keep America Beautiful Resources • National Partners Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Lowes, DOW, GLAD, Phillips 66, Troy-Bilt, Waste Management, UPS, Altria, Alcoa, Dart, LG Electronics, Wrigley and more
Keep America Beautiful Metrics Community Appearance Index Great American Cleanup Lowes Grant Survey Cigarette Litter Prevention Community Value-Annual Report
Community Value • 2013 – 52 events • Value of volunteers: $99,231.48 (Independent Sector) • In-kind donations: $3,950 • Private donations: $10,250 • Government costs: $11,150 • Cost-Benefit ratio: 10.18:1