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 License
Plate Recycling
This is the year we will all be getting new
license plates. Please bring your old plates into the RC&D
office, and we will recycle them to buy supplies for our school
presentations.
Thank you,
Linda
RECYCLING AVAILABLE IN ORD
The opportunity to recycle is now available in Ord. Custer
County Recycling has announced that they have provided a recycle
trailer for Ord area recycling use. They will pick up the
trailer when it is full. This trailer will be provided as long
as the area remains clean and totally litter free and only the
accepted materials are put in the bins. If you see that the
trailer is full, please do not leave your materials on the
ground, but call the Loup Basin RC&D office at 308-728-3393 or
check back the following week to leave your recyclables.
The trailer will have bins for paper, plastic and aluminum/tin
cans. Paper bins can be used to collect newspapers, magazines,
phone books, office paper, junk mail and shredded paper (no
cardboard). The plastic bins can be used to recycle plastic with
numbers 1-7 on the bottom-(no “Tupperware” type hard plastic, no
automotive fluid containers, including oil containers). Bins
will be available for the recycling of aluminum/tin cans. No
items are excepted except those listed above.
Please, no trash bags filled with items (dump your items out),
NO oil, tires, or glass items. You may call 308-728-3393, Loup
Basin RC&D office, if you have any questions about what you can
bring to recycle.
If you have never recycled, this is your chance to get started.
Manufacturing with recycled materials saves energy, water and
produces less air and water pollution than manufacturing with
virgin materials. It takes 95% less energy to recycle an
aluminum can than to make one from raw materials, one ton of
recycled paper saves 17 trees, and recycling saves landfill
space.
The trailer will be located at the Valley County Ag Complex in
Ord at the same location as it was last year. If you are
unfamiliar with the trailer location, there is a sign at the
northwest corner of the fair grounds and a road leading to the
trailer. Thank you for recycling.
Let's Do M.O.R.E.
 We
all can do more to help reduce the environmental impact of our
actions. Motor oil recycling helps protect natural resources and
reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
That's why Valvoline developed Let's Do M.O.R.E. (Motor Oil
Recycling Education), to raise awareness for the importance of
recycling and demonstrate how using recycled oil can help reduce
environmental impact.
Now is the perfect time to get started.
For each person who agrees to recycle used oil and use recycled
oil, Valvoline will donate $1 to Keep America Beautiful up to
$250,000*. Valvoline is proud to support Keep America
Beautiful's efforts to engage individuals to take greater
responsibility for improving their community for future
generations.
We will also give you a great offer on NextGen motor
oil—so your next oil change can start protecting the environment
as well as your engine.
How Do I Do M.O.R.E.?
NEXTgen explains why motor oil recycling is now more
important than ever. The information and videos provided will
show you:
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Why it's important to properly dispose of used oil to keep
it out of our ecosystems
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How newer re-refining process and exclusive chemistry make
NextGen the first recycled oil that's 50% recycled oil and
100% Valvoline protection
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How recycled oil closes the loop to reduce environmental
impact and save resources
Keep Loup Basin Beautiful Winners Announced
Keep Loup Basin Beautiful has drawn the winners for the Keep
America Beautiful Great American Cleanup (GAC). All the
volunteers that participated in cleanup, fix up, or other public
environmental project from March 1 through May 31 was eligible
to have their name in a drawing for Troy-Bilt equipment donated
for the GAC.
The winner of the rake and shovel was Spalding Academy in
Spalding. They had a “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” assembly,
collected donates of used clothing, cleaned along a highway,
cleaned the lawn and flower garden around the school and church,
collected 1377 aluminum cans, 900 pounds of trash.
The winner of the Troy-Bilt string trimmer was Phillip Hill of
Comstock. Comstock collected 2000 lbs of metal for recycling,
removed junk cars, collected 400 lbs of trash, cut down dead
trees, and cleaned the flower garden.
Tammy Marrow won the leaf blower. She was a volunteer for Elba.
Elba collected 5,000 lbs of trash, 4,600 lbs of metal, plant
flowers, cleaned three cemeteries, and cleaned the fire hall.
Thank you to all the groups that participated and to all of the
volunteers who spent more than 3,000 hours doing projects in
Custer, Howard, Greeley, Garfield, Valley, and Sherman counties.
The GAC was sponsored by the Loup Basin RC&D and supplies were
donated by Keep America Beautiful. For more information on
current projects of Keep Loup Basin Beautiful or the Loup Basin
RC&D call 308-728-3393, or visit the office at the Valley Ag
Complex (fairgrounds) in Ord.
Pictured are: Phillip Hill, (Comstock, NE) the winner of the
Troy-Bilt string trimmer. Spalding Academy students
(Spalding, NE), Kate Hartley and Robbie Thome, use the Troy-Bilt
rake and shovel under the direction of teacher Amy McKay.
Tammy Marrow accepts the Troy-Bilt leaf blower from Linda
Studnicka, Director of Keep Loup Basin Beautiful.
"The Make Earth Day Everyday” Winner
Keep Loup Beautiful has announced that the winner of its 2011
Earth Day Art Contest is Ryan Dawe (pictured below front row red
shirt), a 5th grade student from Burwell Elementary School. As
the winner, his artwork was printed on T-Shirts for his entire
class, teacher, and class assistant. The shirts were presented
to the students by Linda Studnicka, Affiliate Director of Keep
Loup Basin Beautiful, during an assembly on May 16th. All fifth
grade students in the central Nebraska counties covered by the
Loup Basin RC&D were invited to submit a poster about
environmental issues, litter reduction, and Earth Day.
To enter the contest Ryan signed the following pledge:
“I will do my part to protect planet Earth. I will make an
effort to educate myself and others about recycling and the
environment. I will lend a hand to the environment by reducing,
reusing, recycling, buying recycled products, conserving energy
and water, and protecting my air and water. In this way I will
be Making Every Day Earth Day.”
This pledge is the basis for all of the programs promoted by
Keep Loup Basin Beautiful, a project of the Loup Basin RC&D
Council. Call Keep Loup Basin Beautiful at 308-728-3393, stop by
the Loup Basin RC&D office located at the Valley County Ag
Complex (fairgrounds), or visit our website at
www.loupbasinrcd.net
for more information.
Loup Basin RC&D Project Keep Loup Basin Beautiful Honored by
Keep America Beautiful for High Performance Achieved in 2010
Local Organization
Recognized as Among the “Best of the Best” Nationwide
 Keep
Loup Basin Beautiful (KLBB) received Keep America Beautiful
President’s Circle Award at the President’s Circle Award
Luncheon, during the Keep America Beautiful 57th annual National
Conference in Orlando, Fla. The President’s Circle Award
recognizes exemplary performance made by certified affiliates of
the national nonprofit to educate residents about litter
reduction, minimize waste by recycling, and assistance to
beautify local communities. Keep Loup Basin Beautiful is a
project of the Loup Basin RC&D Council. Accepting the award in
Orlando was Keep Loup Basin Beautiful affiliate director, Linda
Studnicka.
Keep America Beautiful, Inc.,
established in 1953, is the nation's largest volunteer-based
community action and education organization. In
qualifying for a President’s Circle Award, Keep Loup Basin
Beautiful met Keep America Beautiful’s standards of excellence
by conducting an annual Community Appearance Index, calculating
the affiliate’s cost/benefit ratio, environmental education and
engaging volunteers to take greater responsibility for their
community environment. In addition, award recipients must
conduct activities in Keep America Beautiful’s three core focus
areas of litter prevention, recycling for waste reduction, and
beautification/community greening.
“One of Keep America
Beautiful’s most effective tools is the work of our grassroots
network of affiliate organizations, which has an impact on
millions of Americans each year,” said Keep America Beautiful
President and CEO Matthew M. McKenna. “Our affiliates are
providing real solutions to problems like litter. By engaging
and the education of people of all ages in community improvement
efforts, Keep Loup Basin Beautiful is represented among the best
in promoting the values of Keep America Beautiful.”
Some of the annual KLBB
projects are:
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Community
Appearance Index: The Keep America Beautiful Litter
Index is a tool used by KAB affiliates to measure litter
from year to year, identify “hot spots,” and track their
progress in remedying the problem. This provides an
indication of the success of each community’s anti-littering
education and other anti-littering programs. Keep Loup Basin
Beautiful conducted its Community Appearance Index in Broken
Bow this year. If your community would like to participate
next year call, or leave a message at the RC&D office.
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Cost/Benefit
Analysis: This measurement tool enables Keep America
Beautiful affiliates to demonstrate their ability to
leverage community resources by determining the dollar value
returned to the community for every dollar invested. Keep
Loup Basin Beautiful’s ratio is $14.92 for every dollar
spent.
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Great American Cleanup:
This program
conducted between March 1 and June 30 is aimed at helping
residents with supplies to conduct cleanup, fix-up, and
paint-up projects in their communities
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Environmental education programs
for all ages.
For additional information about Keep
America Beautiful, visit
www.kab.org. Call Keep Loup Basin Beautiful at
308-728-3393, or stop by the Loup Basin RC&D office located at
the Valley County Ag Complex (fairgrounds) if you would like to
participate in 2011 KLBB projects. Visit our website at
www.loupbasinrcd.net for more Loup Basin RC&D information.
 Phone
Book Recycling
Look!
You can recycle your phone book.
Just bring it
to the Loup Basin RC&D office in Ord, and we will make sure
it gets recycled. Maybe your book will come back to you as a
paper sack, newspaper, tissue, or paper plate ?? It may even
be made into your new phone book next year!
Call
308-728-3393 for more information.
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