Welcome to the fall 2016 edition of Beautiful Places, Keep America Beautiful's quarterly e-newsletter.
Keep America Beautiful believes that
recycling is something we can all agree on. And what better time of year to be in agreement than today --
America Recycles Day, the only nationally-recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States. In fact, we received an American Recycles Day
Presidential Proclamation!
There are many actions each of us can take to reduce our environmental impact and support a clean, green and beautiful community. One of the easiest actions to take every day is to recycle. Together, we can commit to the 'Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.' mantra in every aspect of our lives and continue to build momentum for recycled materials that can be used to manufacture new products, "giving our garbage another life." Our plastic bottles can become a pair of jeans; our aluminum cans can become a bike.
It all starts with putting more of the right recyclable items in the right place -- and committing to do so today. We hope you'll take the
#BeRecycled Pledge, participate in the
#BeRecycled Sweepstakes (details below), and choose to live a recycled lifestyle every day.
With this in mind, Keep America Beautiful wants to thank you for your efforts to recycle on America Recycles Day and every day -- at home, at work or school, and on the go in our nation's beautiful public spaces. Keep in mind, it's still not too late to register an event or participate in an event near you!
Recycling is just one step in helping Keep America Beautiful "Do Beautiful Things." As you'll see in our new video, created by New York-based marketing agency Oberland, the vivid, fast-paced video reinforces our message to you with the tagline: "We Keep America Beautiful, so Americans can do beautiful things."
Let's do beautiful things together. Let's recycle!
Brenda Pulley
Senior Vice President, Recycling
Keep America Beautiful
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The State of Recycling: Watch Live Today ... on America Recycles Day!
At the invitation of Senate Recycling Caucus Co-Chairs Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) and Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ISRI will present a briefing today (Nov. 15) at 2:00 p.m. ET on the State of Recycling, highlighting the current economic, environmental, and social impacts of recycling in the U.S., and related policy issues. Speakers include Brenda Pulley, Senior Vice President, Recycling, Keep America Beautiful; Robin Wiener, President, ISRI, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Eadaoin Quinn, Sims Municipal Recycling, and Dave Heglas, Trex Company.
The event will be livestreamed beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET on Nov. 15, on ISRI's Facebook page via Facebook Live. Step-by-step details here.
 America Recycles Day: #BeRecycled Sweepstakes
In celebration of America Recycles Day, Keep America Beautiful launched the America Recycles Day #BeRecycled Sweepstakes, which can be accessed through Keep America Beautiful's Facebook page. The sweepstakes doesn't require a Facebook login for entry -- all that's required for entry is the participant's name, email and zip code. The sweepstakes will close at 11:59:59 PM EDT on Nov. 18. The Grand Prize will include a $1,000 gift card to hayneedle.com, a leading online home furnishings retailer which offers a selection of Green Living products, including many items constructed from recycled content. Second- and third-place prizes include two planters from Trex Outdoor Furniture and a $250 hayneedle.com gift card.
"How Will You...End Littering?" Video Contest
 The "How Will You...End Littering?" Video Contest, open nationwide to students in grades 9-12, asks the next generation of community stewards to share their ideas about how to end littering by educating and motivating people to properly dispose of their trash. Students can create a 30- to 60-second video for a chance to win great prizes like a trip to Keep America Beautiful's National Conference (Jan. 24-26, 2017), GoPro video cameras, Best Buy gift cards and grants to beautify local schools!
The deadline to enter is Tuesday, Nov. 22.
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 Keep America Beautiful Reusable Water Bottle Now Available
Keep America Beautiful has launched our first branded reusable water bottle from Liberty Bottleworks -- made in the U.S. from 100 percent recycled materials by veterans. Keep America Beautiful receives 5 percent of net sales. The first bottle design is recycling themed in time for America Recycles Day! The second bottle design, yet to come, will be a limited edition, full-color Keep America Beautiful "icon" version, which will launch sometime before Thanksgiving.
Donate to Keep America Beautiful Today!
Take a deeper dive into our everyday actions to End Littering, Improve Recycling and Beautify America's Communities. We ask you to consider supporting the work of Keep America Beautiful through a tax-deductible donation to our national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Thank you for helping to Keep America Beautiful!
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Among the key values that drive the work of Keep America Beautiful is the idea that people and places are profoundly interconnected. Here are a few ways that together with our local affiliates we're making an environmental, economic and social impact at the local level:
Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful: New trees and native plants are now in Palm Beach County's Stub Canal Park in West Palm Beach, Florida, thanks to a $5,000 Keep America Beautiful/UPS Community Tree and Recovery Tree Planting Grant and the work of Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful and UPS employee volunteers. Read more.
Keep Prince William Beautiful: Keep Prince William Beautiful, area businesses, and a civic organization recently partnered with the Prince William Area Agency on Aging to create a "Serenity Garden" in front of the Adult Day Healthcare Center in Woodbridge, Virginia.
Read more.
Keep Columbus Beautiful: NHL franchise, the Columbus Blue Jackets, worked with
Keep Columbus Beautiful on its annual service project to beautify the American Addition Community Garden in one of the oldest African-American communities in Columbus, Ohio.
Read more.
Keep the Rez Beautiful:
Keep The Rez Beautiful
has an extraordinary volunteer who has a passion for keeping the Ross Barnett Reservoir in Ridgeland, Mississippi, clean and beautiful!
Read more.
Keep Chicago Beautiful: Great American Cleanup National Sponsor BNSF Railway and
Keep Chicago Beautiful
partnered to reopen closed playgrounds at Chicago's Manuel Perez Jr. Elementary School, benefiting students and the community.
Read more.
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Keep America Beautiful Unveils Results of National Recycling Survey
While the majority of consumers believe many of the issues related to recycling have improved since the 1970s, such as "ease of recycling" and the "amount of waste" that is recycled, most consumers feel the amount of waste in landfills and oceans is worse, according to the first "Consumer Tracker Recycling Survey," released today by Keep America Beautiful and Natural Marketing Institute (NMI), a national market research firm.
Keep America Beautiful Honors Honeywell with its 2016
Vision for America Award
 Keep America Beautiful honored Honeywell and its Chairman and CEO, David M. Cote, with the
2016 Vision for America Award in New York City in October. The Award was presented to Cote by Dinner Co-Chairs Kenneth M. Jacobs, chairman & CEO, Lazard, and Blair Effron, partner and co-founder of Centerview Partners. Among the many highlights of the event was the presentation by our National
Youth Advisory Council alumnus, Laine Rumreich, who is now a freshman at The Ohio State University. Laine spoke eloquently about her volunteer experiences with her local affiliate Keep Indianapolis Beautiful as well as her participation with Keep America Beautiful's YAC. Thanks to the tremendous support of the Dinner Co-Chairs and Keep America Beautiful Board Chairman Howard Ungerleider of The Dow Chemical Company, the dinner was the best attended in a decade.
Keep America Beautiful Community Impact Grants
Over the summer and fall, our network of affiliates are busy implementing hundreds of Keep America Beautiful Community Impact Grants they receive. The recipients of the Dr Pepper Snapple Group Park Recycling Bin Grant Program were announced in August with more than 50 grants provided to help collect cans and bottles in park settings. Keep America Beautiful's second year of the Anheuser-Busch Community Restoration Grant Program was also announced in August with four affiliates receiving $10,000 grants to enable them to restore public areas that have been damaged or completely destroyed by natural disasters. The Keep America Beautiful/Lowe's Community Partners Grant Program, announced in October, awarded grants to 40 affiliates for high-impact service projects in which local Lowe's stores and Lowe's Heroes employee volunteers will be involved. Moreover, Lowe's renewed its national sponsorship support for the 2017 Great American Cleanup. Finally, Keep America Beautiful and The Coca-Cola Company announced on America Recycles Day they will be distributing 4,518 bins to colleges, universities, local governments and nonprofits in 30 states through the Coca-Cola/Keep America Beautiful Public Space Recycling Bin Grant Program. The recycling bins are made possible through a grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company.
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