Keep Ohio Beautiful
Serving the people of Ohio
2012 Keep Ohio Beautiful Annual Report
Please enjoy reading how Keep Ohio Beautiful
is making a difference in a cleaner and safer Ohio
Save The Date!
Keep Ohio Beautiful
Annual Meeting and Awards Program
Friday, July 12, 2013
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Franklin Park Conservatory & Botanical Gardens
1777 Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43203
Click Here for the Awards Program Application Form
Dangers of and How to Combat Metal Scrapping, Tires, Meth Labs and Illegal Dumps will be Covered at Environmental Law Enforcement Training Workshop in Port Clinton
Local and state environmental crimes experts will share their knowledge
at training workshop in Port Clinton on May 3
The workshop will be held Friday, May 3, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Ottawa County Emergency Management Agency, Ottawa County Courthouse, 315 Madison Street Port Clinton, OH 43452
A registration form can be downloaded at www.keepohiobeautiful.org or call 330-338-8328.
Funding for the workshop is provided by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
Registered Sanitarians and Sanitarians in Training can receive 5.0 CEUs.
If you can’t report or announce this workshop, please consider sharing via your social media networks.
Additional 2013 Environmental Law Enforcement Training Workshops to be held:
September 13, 2013 - Environmental Law Enforcement Training Workshop in Springfield, OH
October 25, 2013 - Environmental Law Enforcement Training Workshop in Lima, OH
December 6, 2013 - Environmental Law Enfocement Training Workshop in Ironton, OH
HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR OWN GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP™
Do you have any community eyesores? How many times have you passed by a litter-strewn park or graffiti-splashed building and wished it would go away? Perhaps it's the local playground plagued with garbage or maybe a recycling effort needs a jump-start. Whatever the concern, a solution is just around the corner. All it takes is someone to say "enough is enough" and work with community members to eliminate the problem. It's a great way to improve your local community and be one of the millions of volunteers involved in the Great American Cleanup!
Visit the Calendar of Events for More Information on How to become involved in Ohio's Great American Cleanups!
Our Focus Areas
Studies have shown that a beautified community translates into a safe, healthy community and improves quality of life. Projects supported by Keep Ohio Beautiful encompass the three focus areas described below and include creating community gardens, preventing and cleaning up litter and graffiti, recycling and waste reduction.
Litter Prevention
In 2012, KOB and its affiliates removed 4,520,201 pounds of litter and debris from Ohio’s landscape.
Why It’s Needed:
While litter prevention campaigns have helped improve the litter picture over the past 40 years, it remains a significant and costly problem for communities and businesses. The Ohio Department of Transportation, for example, spends nearly $4.5 million every year to clean up our state roadways.
Litter also lowers assessed property values, drives away homebuyers and hinders business development.
How KOB Helps:
We identify the causes of litter and reduce its impact by organizing cleanups and promoting proper waste handling in our communities.
Waste Reduction and Recycling
7,428,178 pounds of solid waste kept out of landfills in 2012.
Why It’s Needed:
Recycling creates more jobs than landfills and incineration. Recycling conserves our natural resources, saves landfill space, conserves energy, and reduces water pollution, air pollution and the green house gas emissions that cause global warming.
How KOB Helps:
We help reduce the impact of solid waste in our communities through integrated programs and education about responsible consumerism, source reduction, reuse, and recycling, and landfills, composting and waste-to-energy technologies.
Beautification and Community Greening
Approximately 185,014 Ohio residents were touched through Keep Ohio Beautiful and its affiliates’ programs in 2012.
Why It’s Needed:
Community greening improves quality of life, lowers crime and engages citizens. Buildings with high levels of greenery had 48% fewer property crimes and 56% fewer violent crimes, according to the 2009 National Visible Litter Survey and Litter Cost Study, commissioned by Keep America Beautiful.
How KOB Helps:
We improve the visual aspects of our communities through programs that beautify and naturally clean our environment – creating community gardens, restoring vacant lots, beautifying highways and shorelines, urban forests, planting native flora, and preventing and abating graffiti.
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