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Join our mailing list!
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Keep Ohio Beautiful Month is in full swing! Spring is
here and Keep Ohio Beautiful affiliates have plenty of volunteer
opportunties during the Great American Cleanup. Please visit the Keep
Ohio Beautiful website for local affiliate contact information.
Great American Cleanup events and volunteer opportunities are listed
on the website.
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2008 State Roadway Cleanup is a Success!
 The
Ohio Department of Transportation and Keep
Ohio Beautiful coordinated the 2008 State Roadway Cleanup on
March 28-29th. This initiative was part of the Great American
Cleanup of Ohio.
Keep Ohio Beautiful affiliates coordinated 19 roadway cleanup
events over two days. All 12 ODOT Districts also coordinated
cleanup activities with their employees and Adopt-a-Highway groups.
In total, 500 volunteers, Adopt-a-Highway groups, and ODOT workers
picked up 7,915 bags of trash from our state roadways. That equals
11.3 tons of trash!
The kickoff event in Toledo was postponed due to snow during the
Roadway Cleanup weekend. KOB, ODOT District Two, Keep Toledo/Lucas
County Beautiful, and Keep Perrysburg Beautiful will be holding the
State Roadway Cleanup this Saturday, April 19th. The rally will be
held at the Erie Street Market in downtown Toledo, beginning at
8:30 a.m. Sue Smith, National Director of Education for Keep
America Beautiful, will be on hand to serve as the Master of
Ceremonies.
Thank you to everyone who volunteered their time to make this
year's event a success!
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Keep Ohio Beautiful Month
 Keep Ohio Beautiful Month is underway and there is a
wide array of activities taking place around the state. KOB
affiliates are coordinating litter cleanups, recycling and
appliance collections, Earth Day events, and beautification
projects. Many other cities, counties, and Solid Waste Districts
are also coordinating activities to support Keep Ohio Beautiful
Month, thanks to grants awarded by the Ohio
Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The litter cleanup
grants, which range from $200 to $2,500, are aimed at encouraging
community participation in April's Keep Ohio Beautiful Month
activities.
This Saturday, April 19th, the Erie
County Solid Waste District will host their Earth Day
Extravaganza from 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Sandusky Mall. Keep
Montgomery County Beautiful will coordinate a cleanup at the
Five Rivers Metropark from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30. Lorain
County Beautiful will host their Household Hazardous Waste
Collection from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at two locations in Lorain
County. Keep
Lakewood Beautiful will also hold their Great American Cleanup
event this Saturday.
These are only a few of the events taking place this week and there
are many more for April 26th. We invite you to join our affiliates
in making a difference in Ohio. Together, we can all keep Ohio
beautiful for generations to come.
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Scotts Smart Water Pledge
Take the Pledge and support Keep Ohio Beautiful!
 In an effort to conserve water this spring and summer,
The
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company and Keep
America Beautiful have teamed with baseball's top
groundskeeper, David Mellor, on an educational campaign to help
homeowners learn the simple steps they can take to help maximize
the water-saving benefits of lawns via the ScottsŪ Water Smart
Pledge.
By taking the Scotts Water Smart Pledge, homeowners will learn how
to grow and maintain a healthy lawn while saving thousands of
gallons of water every year.
With the Scotts Water Smart Pledge, we're encouraging you to get
involved. Beyond saving water, homeowners who take the Scotts Water
Smart Pledge will be entered for the chance to win several great
prizes, including the potential to win grant money for your KAB
affiliate to build or improve a community green space:
- Every
week for 10 weeks, Scotts will award $1,000 to a KAB affiliate
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the end of the 10 week period, one KAB affiliate will win a
$10,000 grand prize to put towards building or improving a
green space for their community
This is where you can help! The weekly winners and grand prize
winner are determined based on the number of people who take the
"pledge" in your community. So click
here to take the pledge and support Keep Ohio Beautiful. Just
select KOB on the affiliate drop down list.
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Ohio Affiliates Win Scotts Grants
 Congratulations to
the Scotts Miracle-Gro Green Space Grants recipients! Keep America
Beautiful partnered with The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company this spring
during the 2008 Great American Cleanup to increase the amount of
gardens and green spaces in the U.S. Through past collaborative
efforts, KAB and Scotts Miracle-Gro have created community green
spaces in cities across the country. This year, Scotts Miracle-Gro
is expanding the program to reach 20 cities.
We are thrilled to announce that four Ohio affiliates are grant
recipients this year. Keep
Cincinnati Beautiful, Keep Hardin County Beautiful, Keep
Perrysburg Beautiful, and Keep
Jefferson County Beautiful will all receive a $2,500 grant from
Scotts Miracle-Gro to create or enhance a green space in their
community.
Keep America Beautiful partnered with The Scotts Miracle-Gro
Company this spring during the 2008 Great American Cleanup to
increase the amount of gardens and green spaces in the U.S. Through
past collaborative efforts, KAB and Scotts Miracle-Gro have created
community green spaces in cities across the country. This year,
Scotts Miracle-Gro is expanding the program to reach 20 cities.
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Sponsor Spotlight!
 Honda of America sponsored a one year grant for the Keep Ohio Beautiful
website. From the start of Honda's existence, the company has
worked to reduce the environmental impact of its products and
manufacturing operations. Honda has accomplished this by
implementing new products, processes and technologies that are good
for society and business.
Today, Honda is working on a broad range of "Green
Factory" initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of its
manufacturing operations. These new and ongoing efforts by Honda
associates in departments throughout the company focus on reducing
CO2 emissions, water use, air emissions and generation of waste
materials.
More than 15,000 Honda associates live in dozens of Ohio
communities, and many are actively investing their time and talent
in charitable and community organization. They volunteer their
service and provide leadership on key community boards and
initiatives.
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Did You Know?
 The manufacturing of glass containers for a wide
variety of product lines includes food, beverages, toiletries,
perfume, cosmetics, and medicine. The glass container is a superior
package due to its clarity, inertness, and recyclability. Glass can
be recycled indefinitely without loss of quality.
- The
energy saved by recycling one glass container can light a
100-watt bulb for four hours or power a television for 1.5
hours.
- Glass
can be recycled again and again with no loss in quality or
purity. Glass containers go from recycling bin to store shelf
in as little as 30 days- again and again.
- In
2006, glass made up 5.3% of the municipal solid waste stream
by weight, and of that, 25.3% of all glass containers were
recycled. For glass beer and soft drink bottles, 30.7% were
recycled that same year.
- Recycling
glass reduces consumption of raw materials, extends the life
of plant equipment, such as furnaces, and saves energy.
- Today's
glass containers are also more than 40% lighter than they were
20 years ago.
Facts found on the Glass
Packaging Institute website and the Recycling Means Business
report, published by ODNR, Division
of Recycling & Litter Prevention.
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