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Littering is Wrong Too to be at Fountain Square
July 23rd: Indie Concert, Fountain Square. KCB will be at Fountain Square on Friday, July 23rd from 6-8 PM, sharing information about the Littering is…
Littering is Wrong Too goes to Party in the Park!
July 21st: Party in the Park, Yeatman's Cove. KCB will be at Party in the Park, down on the riverfront, July 21st to help promote…
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Littering Prevention campaign up and running
July 20th. New anti-littering campaign asks for 'jerky behavior'. To read more click here
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Littering Prevention campaign up and running
July 20th. New anti-littering campaign asks for 'jerky behavior'. To read more click here
Summer 2010 Newsletter!
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GE Volunteers cleanup Avondale Dump Site
June 9th. 90 Volunteer cleared up a dump site in Avondale. To read more click here
Ghost Hunters cleanup Wesleyan cemetery
May 22nd. Volunteers from the N. E. Ghost Society cleaned up and helped landscaping a cemetery in Nortside. To read more click here
Great American Cleanup Tackles 100 Communities
April 24th. 7,000 volunteers from 72 Greater Cincinnati communities and 30 schools collected 165,000 pounds of litter, 10,000 pounds of recyclables and 971 tires today during the 2010 Great American Cleanup. 15 events were postponed for a future date. To read more click here
Future Blooms Paints the Town
(SOAPBOX). April 20th. Future Blooms brings hope and color to the boarded up buildings in Cincinnati neighborhoods. To read more click here
KCB/ODOT to tackle dirtiest Highway Exit In The Tri-State
(Cincinnati) March 8th. KCB and ODOT will clean the Ten Dirtiest entry exits that YOU CHOOSE in Cincinnati ... more
KCB and Disney: Give a Day - Get a Day
(Cincinnati) Feb. 25: Volunteering just got more fun! In 2010 you can volunteer for the Great American Cleanup, State Roadway Cleanup or Growing Green Habits and you will receive one day in the most magical place in the world: Disney! more
Cincinnati Fashion Week is much more than fashion
(Cincinnati) Feb 12th. Nathan Hurst, Cincinnati Fashion Week creative force, gives back to the community... more
Volunteer of The Month
(Amberley Village) Feb 5th. Matthew Heldman received a proclamation from Mayor Kamine at the Council meeting in recognition for the assistance that he provided as an e-waste recycling volunteer for the Village during the Arbor Day celebration.... more
Cincinnati Fashion Week to add style and beauty to GAC 2010
(SOAPBOX) Jan 26th. Local fashion designer maps out Fashion for a Cause with 1st Cincinnati Fashion Week. Nathan Hurst is a self-taught fashion designer who did three local shows before making his national debut at the 2009 'Hip-Hop Meets Couture' annual fashion show in San Francisco... more
Future Blooms remaking 100's of depressed buildings
(SOAPBOX) Jan 26th. In fall 2009, city leaders and members of the Cincinnati Empowerment Corporation, the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts, and Fifth-Third Bank Trustees stood with individuals from Keep Cincinnati Beautiful to kick off the Future Blooms Project. more
The Wizard visits Madisonville Kids
(Cincinnati) Jan 12th. On Tuesday KCB brought its litter prevention show "The Wartville Wizard" to John P. Parker Elementary in Madisonville. Now on its 7th season, this play tells the story of a Wizard and its efforts to clean up his town. more
Whole Foods Succesful E-cycling even
(Cincinnati) Jan 9. This past Saturday Whole Foods put together an electronic recycling event at its Rockwood Commons store. From 10:00am to 3:00pm local residents dropped their old scanners, computers, laptops, stereos, speakers, monitors and more. This kind of "trash" harms the environment and citizens due to the heavy metals they contain. Whole Foods has hired an expert team to disassemble this electronics, scrub hard disks included, and reuse the materials. more
KAB Announces Results of Nation's Largest Study of Litter
(Washington, DC) Dec 3rd, 2009. National nonprofit Keep America Beautiful has announced the results of the largest litter study ever conducted in the U.S. The study identifies and dissects the causes, effects and costs of litter in America, and is the first major national survey of litter in the U.S. in 40 years. more
Cincinnati Wins $5,000 Recycling Video Award
(Cincinnati) Nov 16th. The U.S. Conference of Mayors, Novelis Inc. and Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB) announced that Cincinnati, Ohio is the winner of the first Cans for Cash: American Recycler Video Award. The city of Cincinnati will receive a grand prize of $5,000 to enhance local recycling efforts. YouTube Video
Procter & Gamble Group Cleanup in Eden Park
(Cincinnati) Sept 18. Procter & Gamble’s One Hair Marketing group volunteers cleaned up and beautified Presidential Grove in Eden Park. Photos
Celebrating 20 Years of Recycling
(CINCINNATI,OH) August 27, 2009. On Monday, August 17, 2009 Keep Cincinnati Beautiful celebrated the 20th Anniversary of curbside recycling in Cincinnati. In 1989, Keep Cincinnati Beautiful partnered with the City of Cincinnati to develop a recycling service for its residents. Cincinnati’s curbside program was the largest in the Midwest and offered the service to every community in the city. Experts said it couldn’t be done in an urban area, but 20 years and 250,000 tons of recyclables later, Cincinnati has proved them wrong. more
Elementary Students Receive 'Green' Award
(Cincinnati) June 1st, 2009. Keep Cincinnati Beautiful and Rumpke presented awards to the winners of The 3 R's Challenge. This was a city-wide contest that challenged students to put the 3R’s (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) into action. Local schools/students chose one of the 3R’s to work on throughout the month of April and submitted the final summary of their challenge. more
St. Teresa of Avila Students Receive Award
(Cincinnati) May 27, 2009. St. Teresa of Avila Elementary students received a First Prize award from Keep Cincinnati Beautiful at their campus this Thursday May 28th. These ‘Energy Detectives” embarked on a two month campaign to analyze and eventually reduce the use of lighting in the school to conserve energy and natural resources. more
Great American Cleanup is a Success
(CINCINNATI ,OH) April 25th, 2009. Thousands of people rolled up their sleeves and got to work across the Tri-State as they gave their neighborhoods a makeover. It was all part of the Great American Cleanup. Organizers said that more than 6,500 people from 90 communities collected 300,000 pounds of litter, 25,000 pounds of recyclables and 1,100 tires during the event. more
KCB Speaks Up against litter on channel 12
(CINCINNATI ,OH) January 13, 2009. The folks from Keep Cincinnati Beautiful picked up the equivalent of 400 ten point bags last March just on Western Avenue and 6th Street. The non profit organization has a plan for a bigger city clean up but many highways may be budget victims. more
Sts. Peter and Paul Academy wins National Recycling Award
(CINCINNATI ,OH) December 15, 2008. Sts. Peter and Paul Academy in Reading recently took first place in the Cincinnati area and 51st place in the country in a nationwide plastic recycling contest sponsored by Keep America Beautiful and, on a local level, Keep Cincinnati Beautiful. more
Recycling bins and safety kits distributed in Evanston
(CINCINNATI, OH) November 7th, 2008. Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, Cincinnati Police Department, Evanston Community Council and Xavier University students distributed 100 recycling bins and 1,000 Safety Kits home-by-home in Evanston during the past month. more
Volunteer help adds to city's beauty
(CINCINNATI, OH) November 3rd, 2008. 1,200 volunteers from 28 Greater Cincinnati communities clocked in 3,500 hours of work, collected 25,200 pounds of trash (including 152 tires, 15 mattresses, 2 stoves, 20 kitchen cabinets), planted 14,810 daffodil bulbs, 3,150 daylilies and spread 210 cubic yards of mulch during Keep Cincinnati Beautiful’s Make A Difference Day... and Riverside is still trying to figure out how to carry 6 mattresses out of their ravine. For more info visit Make A Difference Day
KCB & Bengals tackle Recycling at Tailgating Areas
Cincinnati, OH. Oct-Dec, 2008. Keep Cincinnati Beautiful is once more helping you to go green. Before every game Keep Cincinnati Beautiful volunteers will be distributing recycling bags to every car entering the Longworth Parking Lot (The Official Bengals' Tailgating Zone). Then, all the tailgaters can place their full bags of aluminum cans and plastic bottles #1 and 2 in the Rumpke containers located at the entrance of the parking lot on their way to the stadium. Rumpke will donate all the proceeds among Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, Anthony Munoz Foundation and Marvin Lewis Foundation. If you would like to volunteer with us you can call us at 513-352-4383 or email Josman Rodriguez