Keep Loup Basin Beautiful

• Children's Environmental Links and Educator web sites

www.kab.org/cleansweepusa
Help to Recycle, Play the Can-It Game

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

• Current News

  Keep Loup Basin Beautiful Wins National Award

   

  At the national Keep America Beautiful (KAB) conference in Washington, DC the Keep Loup Basin organization received the President’s Circle Recognition from the national KAB Director, Matthew McKenna.  This award is the highest recognition given to an affiliate meeting requirements for belonging to Keep America Beautiful.  During the past year, Keep Loup Basin Beautiful has been involved in four large kid’s environmental fairs, and has presented environmental education programs to many schools and adult groups.  They have been involved in cell phone collections, soda bottle recycling contests, America Recycles Day and Earth Day contests for schools, and many other activities.  They were involved with the Great American Cleanup (GAC), and will be promoting that program again starting March 1-May 31, 2009.  They will be giving away a Troy-Bilt leaf blower and a Troy-Bilt trimmer to the winning participating groups during this period.

   

  At the KAB conference, Spalding Academy received the 2nd place Youth program for Waste Reduction.  Their school recycled 8250 pounds of materials during the 2008.  They were submitted for the award by Keep Loup Basin Beautiful.

   

  For more information about the GAC or any other presentations or programs, call 308-728-3393.

• Current Projects

Keep Loup Basin Beautiful keeping you in the “Loop”

Attention: RESIDENTS OF OUR NINE COUNTIES!
From March 1 thru May 31, 2009

We will be giving away a Troy-Bilt Leaf Blower and a Troy-Bilt Weed Trimmer, each worth over $200, in a random drawing of all volunteers for all cleanup, fix up, or beautification projects in a public space during the "Great American Cleanup". 

Any group large or small, any project large or small can be entered, but you must register your project prior to completion.  We will again have free Glad Bags and supplies.

Talk to Linda, 308-728-3393  email: Linda.Studnicka@rcdnet.net
Keep Loup Basin Beautiful

Here are 20 great tips for improving community environments year-round:  

• Work with the local civic groups to identify and eliminate eyesores, and beautify the local environment.

• Pick up a piece of litter every day.

• Keep a litter bag in your car or your recreational vehicle so you dispose of litter properly.

• Create a trash fishing contest in your waterway to increase awareness about illegal dumping and littering.

• Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper asking others to respect public lands and keep them clean.

• Help your local schools conduct recycling drives and clean-up projects.

• Create a beautiful green space by planting trees and shrubs in an area in need of improvement.

• Ask local businesses to adopt-a-spot and take care of it.

• Paint and fix up playground equipment.

• Organize a paint-out with family and friends, and create a community paintbrush mural over a wall of illegal graffiti.

• Recycle your old tires.

• Report graffiti to your local authorities.

• Donate your old computer equipment or dispose of it properly.

• Conduct a recycling drive in your neighborhood or your business.

• Volunteer to help your employer conduct paper recycling drives at work.

• Donate gently used clothes to needy organizations and shelters and identify other items that you can reuse.

• Compost yard and food waste and seek advice if you don’t know how.

• 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.

• Ask your local government officials to establish regular community improvement activities, and to support and promote volunteer efforts.

• Help your library establish an environmental corner that offers books and other educational materials about taking care of the Earth.