Tips from Keep America Beautiful

Be a Part of the Solution, Not a Source of Pollution

Tips from Keep America Beautiful, here are 20 suggestions for improving community environments year-round:

Ask local businesses to adopt - a - spot to maintain.
Ask your local government officials to establish regular community improvement activities, and to support and promote volunteer efforts.
Compost yard and food waste.
Conduct a recycling drive in your neighborhood or your business.
Create a beautiful green space by planting trees and shrubs in an area in need of improvement.
Create a trash fishing contest in your waterway to increase awareness about illegal dumping and littering.
Donate gently used clothes to needy organizations and shelters and identify other items that you can reuse.
Donate your old computer equipment or recycle.
Find out how pollution in storm drain runoff can impact our aquifers and ecosystems, and be passionate about doing your part to reduce litter and solid waste.
Help your library establish an environmental corner that offers books and other educational materials about taking care of the Earth.
Help your local schools conduct recycling drives and clean-up projects.
Keep a litter bag in your car or your recreational vehicle until you get to a trash receptacle.
Organize a paint-out with family and friends, and create a community paintbrush mural over a wall of illegal graffiti. Recycle junk mail.
Paint and fix up playground equipment. Use your canvas bags when shopping.
Pick up a piece of litter every day and recycle or dispose of properly.
Recycle your old tires. Report graffiti to your local authorities.
Reduce the amount of plastic containers purchased, buy glass whenever possible.
Volunteer to help your employer conduct quarterly paper recycling drives at work.
Work with the local civic groups to identify and eliminate eyesores, and beautify your local environment.
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper asking others to respect public lands and keep them clean.