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Keep Columbus Beautiful promotes activities in the
areas of:
Public Awareness
Promotional
Events for 2006:
"Great American Cleanup" (March-May)
"Keep Columbus
Beautiful" Month (April)
"Children's Green Space Phase II" (May)
"Fall
Cleanup" (September - November)
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Education
Informed
public opinion, intelligent decision-making and public action are
required to make litter prevention, waste reduction and recycling effective in
the overall management of solid waste. To accomplish this, KCB has
created and offers presentations, activity books, lesson
kits, and teacher workshops for both formal and non-formal educators.
Presentations:
Columbus Pride: How to Improve Our Urban Environment is a 45-minute interactive,
elementary school age presentation that teaches students about litter
prevention, graffiti abatement and how they can throw away less and help
conserve resources by reducing, reusing, recycling and rethinking (The four
R's).
Public education and awareness is
essential not only to reinforce environmentally conscious behavior, but also
to call citizens to action. KCB offers a Community Involvement
presentation that encourages neighborhoods to organize litter cleanups, graffiti
paint-outs, and describes the recycling collection options available to
residents.
Student Activity
Book: Kids REUSIN' Junk has 50 activities teachers can
have their students in grades 3-5 complete in the classroom.
Through inexpensive, creative, fun-filled classroom reuse ideas, students
learn about source reduction and resource conservation.
Lesson Kits:
Streamline Your Waste is a lesson kit temporarily loaned to teachers
and educators for students in grades 4-6. It contains all the materials needed for ten lessons on source reduction, recycling, composting,
waste-to-energy and landfills.
Teacher
Partnerships/Workshops: An Ounce of Prevention is an
interdisciplinary curriculum on waste reduction for middle school students in
grades 6-8. The activities foster sound thinking as well as enhance the
learning and use of scientific skills, tools and concepts.
Workshops
such as Windows on Waste (Grades 3-6),Investigating Solid Waste
Issues (Grades 7-12),Air to Earth (Grades 5-8),and
Graffiti Hurts (Grades 3-5) are offered each year to educators in Central Ohio.
Attendees can earn Continuing Education Units (CEU's).
If you would like to
sponsor an educational initiative, please give us a call at 645-8027.
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 Recycling
The key to reducing
waste in our beautiful city is an effective, comprehensive recycling program. KCB promotes
many recycling programs.
City
Office Recycling Program
The City of Columbus instituted an
office recycling program in 1992. The program was expanded in 2006. For
details about the program, click
here
Recycle,
Columbus!
KCB is the lead program for promoting
Recycle, Columbus!, the City's residential recycling
program. Approximately 7% of Columbus residents subscribe to the curbside
recycling program. Curbside collection of yard waste is provided to all
Columbus residents at no direct charge.
If you would like to
sponsor a recycling initiative, please give us a call at 645-8027.
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Litter
Prevention
We can be
proud of the number of Columbus residents that make up our core litter
cleanup volunteers. Throughout the year, more than 8,000 citizens make
themselves available on evenings and weekends to roll up their sleeves and get
the job done.
If
you are interested in conducting a neighborhood clean-up, go to the Litter Clean-up
page on our website. That page will provide you with all of the
information you will need to organize a community clean-up.
A nation of
volunteers comes out each spring as KCB starts its biggest cleanup
season by kicking off Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup.
This program is the nation's largest volunteer litter cleanup, and KCB has
been involved since the program's first year, 1985.
Adopt-An-Area
in Columbus. Volunteers can make a lasting impression by adopting a roadway.
Groups can have their name on signs posted in the area to recognize their
regular efforts in keeping that area clean.
To learn more about the
Adopt-An-Area program, go to the Adopt-An-Area page on our website.
We're proud to
support Mayor Michael B. Coleman's Neighborhood Pride
initiative. This initiative provides support to Columbus area neighborhoods
that are taking pride in their communities by taking advantage of the many
resources available to make it more beautiful.
If you would like to
sponsor or conduct a cleanup in your area, please give us a call at 645-8027
or complete the registration
form online and e-mail the information to us.
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Beautification
A
well-tended bed of flowers or a beautiful lawn can have an amazing
effect on a community. The effect is equally amazing when a broken window or
a discarded bottle distorts the same view. Research by social scientists
indicate there is a correlation between community pride and neighborhood
crime. Communities that take pride in their neighborhoods have lower rates
of crime. Cleaner communities have a better chance of attracting new
business and new residents. These are reasons that KCB encourage everyone in
Columbus to take part in keeping the city beautiful.
Leadership
Columbus class of 2002 developed a step-by-step guide on developing
gateways for any Columbus community to aid in city beautification. To
print or view the booklet using Adobe Acrobat Reader, click
here.
KCB supports
groups involved in community gardening by providing bags, gloves and
tools to assist their efforts. KCB would like to assist groups or
individuals interested in adopting public areas in need or beautification in
a similar fashion.
If you would like to
sponsor or conduct a cleanup in your area, please give us a call at 645-8027.
Click
here for a list of Tools & Supplies Available for
Loan for Cleanup and Beautification Projects
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Graffiti
Prevention
Graffiti is detrimental to
neighborhoods and to our city. It creates a perception in
neighborhoods that laws protecting private and public properties can be
disregarded, and that a neighborhood is declining. In January of 2001, the
City of Columbus created its first year-round Graffiti Program to address the
growing problem of graffiti on public property. For more detailed
information on this program, visit the Graffiti
Program web page.
If you would like to report a
graffiti site on public property, please contact 645-3111 or submit
a service request via the 3-1-1 website.
If you or your group would like to
organize a "Graffiti Paint-Out" on
private property in your neighborhood, please complete the Paint-Out
Registration Form. We will contact you with information to help
you plan your paint-out, and give you information on how you can obtain the
supplies you will need.
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Keep Columbus Beautiful is a program of the City of
Columbus, Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division - A Keep America
Beautiful, Inc. affiliate
Funded by the Division of Recycling & Litter Prevention,
Ohio Department of Natural Resources with matching funds from the City of Columbus
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