Monthly archive for January 2021

Latrobe Bulletin – The Richard King Mellon Foundation awarded a grant totaling $20,000 to Greensburg-based Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful to create unique recycling education videos with its Western Pennsylvania affiliates. Read Entire Article – Subscription Required

ABC 27 News – LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A recent poll shows that a majority of Pennsylvanians surveyed consider time spent outdoors to be “essential” to their wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are steps visitors can take to safely enjoy the outdoors while minimizing their

The Express – LOCK HAVEN — The Clinton County Community Foundation doled out almost $300,000 to community organizations at its annual meeting on Wednesday. The Foundation’s board reviewed each of the 62 grant applications that totaled $440,812 and discussed their intended uses before making final decisions totaling

The Allegheny Front –  Reports of illegal dumping to Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful were up by 212 percent in 2020. Their community-based enforcement program called Illegal Dump Free PA does have a surveillance camera loan program so that communities can catch people in the act of throwing couches over hillsides or trash

PA Environment Digest Blog – Keep PA Beautiful provided five local affiliates with grants totaling $20,000 to educate county residents by producing videos on the recycling and waste disposal services available to them in Western Pennsylvania. The counties include Butler, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango and Westmoreland. Every municipal

Trib Live -If you’re not sure what electronics you can recycle at Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling, the Unity-based nonprofit has a video for you. As Westmoreland Cleanways Executive Director Ellen Keefe notes in one of four new informational videos posted on the organization’s website, among the most frequent calls

PA Environment Digest Blog -On January 26, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful announced Gary Smith from Allegheny CleanWays and Charles Dean Hench from Keep Perry County Beautiful are the 2020 Outstanding Volunteers of the Year. Each year, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful provides an opportunity for their local affiliates to recognize

PA Environment Digest Blog – While littering and illegal dumping are often discussed as social or environmental problems, rarely do we think about their economic impact– but the cost of litter is very real.  Over five years, 2014 through 2018, the Department of Transportation spent over $65

Trib Live -We live in a very garbage-heavy world. People throw away everything and do it without thinking much about it. Paper plates and plastic straws and the boxes and bags that package them. The jars and cans that hold food. Baby diapers and cardboard and banana