Keep Keith County Beautiful

2006 Annual Report

For every $1 of local government money invested, Keep Keith County Beautiful returned $7.59 in the form of cost avoidance, reduced cleanup cost, volunteer hours and donated goods and services.

With the cooperation of the local businesses and schools, we collected $632.20 worth of used ink cartridges this year!  The money is used for Keep Keith County Beautiful projects not covered by grant funding.

Scrap Tire Amnesty Day

Keep Keith County Beautiful collected 37.32 tons of tires and they were recycled and kept out of our landfills.

Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day

Keep Keith County Beautiful had a one day collection for local residents to dispose of their household hazardous waste properly.  We collected:

Paint-3,800 lbs.
Pesticides-475 lbs.
Acids/bases-50 lbs
Miscellaneous-109 lbs.

BEAUTIFICATION

*Management of downtown parking lots & bump-outs
*Lunn's/DOR area
*"Grow Big Red"
*Great American Cleanup

RECYCLING

*Return the Warmth-School Collection
(Over 10,000 #1 PET Bottles Collected)
*Electronic Waste Collection Day
*County Wide Cleanup
*Scrap Tire Amnesty Collection
*Funding Factory

LITTER REDUCTION

*County Wide Cleanup
*Paxton Dumpster Days
*International Coastal Cleanup at Lake Mac
*Downtown Trash Receptacles
*Household Hazardous Waste Collection

EDUCATION

*Classroom Presentations to 3rd & 4th Graders
*Oregon Trail Homeshow
*National Night Out
*Community Presentations
*Chamber of Commerce Newsletter Articles
*"Talkin' Trash" Articles
*23,638 of Informational Pieces Distributed
*321 Volunteer Hours

Funding for these projects is provided by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality