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 Projects

National Keep America Beautiful Awards Given

(Pictured at left - Linda Studnicka, Affiliate Director of Keep Loup Basin Beautiful accepts the National 3rd Place Affiliate Award and the President’s Circle Award from KAB Director Mathew McKenna in Washington D.C.)

On December 4th, the National Keep America Beautiful (KAB) organization recognized their affiliates at their conference in Washington, DC. Keep Loup Basin Beautiful received the national 3rd place Affiliate Award and the President’s Circle Recognition from the KAB Director, Matthew McKenna.

The Keep Loup Basin organization is located in Ord, NE and is a project sponsored by the Loup Basin RC&D, serving 9 counties in central Nebraska. There are over 600 KAB affiliates world wide and the Affiliate Award is given to honor the ones that show the most outstanding achievements during the past year. The President’s Circle Award is recognition given to an affiliate meeting all the requirements for belonging to Keep America Beautiful, including an active board and participation in all of the key KAB programs such as the Great American Cleanup and Litter Index.

During the past year, Keep Loup Basin Beautiful has been involved in three 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, phone book collections, Household Hazardous Waste collections at 4 sites, scrap tire collections at 4 sites, America Recycles Day and Earth Day contests for schools, cigarette litter prevention programs, river cleanups, the Great American Cleanup and many other activities.

At the KAB conference, Arnold Public School also received national recognition with a 2nd place Youth Program for Waste Reduction award. Their school wide program of “Creative Recycling” is a year long effort to “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle” that has won state awards. This award will be presented to them by Keep Loup Basin Beautiful at the January 8th Arnold basketball game between the girl’s and boy’s games. They were submitted for the award by Keep Loup Basin Beautiful.

If you, your organization, or your school would like to receive more information about Keep Loup Basin Beautiful or the Loup Basin RC&D programs, please call 308-728-3393.

AMERICA RECYCLES DAY Winner is...

Madeline Winchell, 4th grader from St Mary’s in Ord and her classmates accept the backpacks the classroom won in the America Recycles Day contest drawing.

America Recycles Day, celebrated on November 15 each year, is a national campaign to raise awareness about the benefits of recycling and buying products made with recycled materials for all age groups.

Locally, Keep Loup Basin Beautiful held an area contest for all 4th graders in the Loup Basin RC&D counties. There were 117 entries for the contest, “I Think.” This contest was aimed at encouraging the students to think about what they recycling. A random drawing was held from all the 4th grade students from the schools that entered. The winner of the random drawing was Madeline Winchell, a student at St. Mary’s in Ord.

A backpack donated by the 4imprint company with a “Keep Loup Basin Beautiful, Reduce, Reuse, recycle and GO GREEN” zipper pull attached was given to all of the students in Ms. Heil’s class at St. Mary’s. School.

Madeline’s responses to the “I Think” contest were:

1. The best thing about recycling is going green.

2. I recycle cans, newspapers, plastic, bottles.

3. I wish I could recycle coats.

4. Throwing away recyclables is wrong!

5. Learning about recycling is easy.

6. My favorite thing to recycle is plastic bottles.

7. My school recycles paper and cans.

8. Sometimes recycling is hard it gets heavy.

9. I promise not to litter because it is bad for the environment.

10. Other things I do to help my environment are get out and play an hour a day.

All the entries showed a lot of thought behind the responses, and Keep Loup Basin Beautiful wants to thank all the schools that participated in this contest.  

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.