Specific information on
recycling, litter prevention
educational presentations,
beautification or
Keep America Beautiful
projects, e-mail:


Keep Loup Basin
Beautiful, Director
c/o Linda Studnicka
keeploupbasinbeautiful@frontier.com
801 S Street, Suite 2
Ord, NE 68862
Phone:
(308) 728-3393
Fax:
(308) 728-3903

 

Keep Loup Basin Beautiful

  • Current Projects

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:

  • Why it's important to properly dispose of used oil to keep it out of our ecosystems

  • How newer re-refining process and exclusive chemistry make NextGen the first recycled oil that's 50% recycled oil and 100% Valvoline protection

  • 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.

2011 Earth Day Art Contest is Ryan Dawe, a 5th grade student from Burwell Elementary School
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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.
 

  • Children's Environmental Links and Educator web sites

www.kab.org/cleansweepusa

http://www.elmersgluecrew.com/
Save the bottles. Save the sticks. Save the planet
Elmer’s Glue Crew Recycling Program is a fun, hands-on way to teach about recycling. As a program member, you’ll have access to plenty of helpful recycling-related curriculum and fun projects to keep your kids excited about recycling.  Best of all, you and your students also have the opportunity to win hundreds of great prizes, including Elmer’s products and more!

Planet Pals: Friends for Earth

   www.planetpals.com

Scholastic: Recycling Starts with You

   www.teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/recycling/resources.htm

Help the Environment

   www.lindabook.com/helptheenvironmentprinter.html

If you live in the counties of Blaine, Custer, Garfield, Greeley, Howard, Loup, Sherman, Valley, or Wheeler, and would like more information about environmental projects in that area, call Linda Studnicka at 308-728-3393.