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Empowering Atlanta’s Communities to Sustain Cleaner and Greener Environments
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Keep Atlanta Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., serves Atlanta by developing and implementing public education and community improvement programs that make a cleaner and greener Atlanta. These initiatives enhance the quality of life and economic development in the community by instilling pride in community ownership and a behavior change that seeks improvements in littering, recycling, beautification, and natural resource conservation.
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| What Can You Do to Keep Atlanta Beautiful? |
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Bring Your Own Bag to Whole Foods
During the month of April, Whole Foods will give you a 10 cent refund for each bag you reuse on your shopping trip. You can ask your cashier to donate your dimes to Keep Atlanta Beautiful. Whole Foods Market has pledged to stop using plastic shopping bags by Earth Day, April 22nd. Did you know that plastic bags take 1,000 years to disintegrate and gradually release toxins into water and soil? |
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Recycle Curbside
Request a recycling bin for curbside pickup if you live in a single-family residence or multi-family residence up to six units by calling Charles Dangerfield at 404-559-9700, ext 109. DreamSan picks up newspapers, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, office paper, telephone books, envelopes, cereal and shoe boxes, glass bottles and jars, aluminum and tin cans, and all plastics. Read More... |
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Recycle / Manage Household Hazardous Products
Access www.earth911.org or call Earth 911's English/Spanish hotline at 1-800-CLEANUP. Enter your zip code to locate the nearest household hazardous waste collection or recycling center. Earth 911 is a public and private sector partnership that provides you with accurate, local information to protect your community’s environment. Read More about Earth 911…
For a list of Metro Atlanta recyclers that accept loose materials (not baled or compacted), Click here.
For Industrial Materials Recycling Companies & Information, Contact: chuck_boelkins@gadnr.org
For polystyrene (Styrofoam) Recycling recovered from school and institutional cafeterias, contact Evergreen Partnering Group. Read More...
For recycling regular alkaline (non-rechargable) batteries, contact Metal Conversion Technologies, a company that waives the processing fees for non-profits and governments in Georgia. Read More... |
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Educate / Report Violators of Sign Ordinance
Keep Atlanta Beautiful, the Department of Public Works’ Solid Waste Division, the City Solicitor's Office, and the Municipal Court are committed to aggressive enforcement of the sign ordinance. (See Initiative to Stop Illegal Signage below) You can help by using suggested scripts to educate real estate agents, businesses, and other advertisers who violate city code. Read More...
You can also help by reporting illegal signage to the Solid Waste Education Enforcement Team Officer assigned to your area of the city. Click here. |
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Put Waste In Its Place
The city of Atlanta prohibits the throwing, dumping, sweeping, pushing, blowing, depositing, or leaving of litter on public or private property unless the litter is placed into a receptacle or container installed on such property. Violators of Article XI “Litter Control” of the City of Atlanta Code of Ordinances can be subject to a fine of $1000 a day. Read More... |
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Organize Neighborhood Cleanups
Get proactively involved. Ridding our city of visible pollution is everybody’s responsibility. A neighborhood blighted with litter, abandoned and neglected property, and illegal signage invites criminal activity.
Contact Peggy Denby, KAtlB’s Executive Director, for trash bags and gloves: Call 404-249-5853 or send Peggy an e-mail using the Contact Us page of this website. |
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Report Violations Of City Codes
The Bureau of Code Compliance is responsible for the inspection of residential and commercial properties that are in violation of the Atlanta Housing Code, which pertains to privately owned property not in the City’s right-of-way. To file a complaint, call 404-330-6190. For an
explanation of the Code Compliance Process, and the kinds of violations dealt with, Read More... |
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Recent News |
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| Electronics, Cardboard Recycling Begins at Midtown/Grady Site |
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Saturday, March 15, marked the beginning of a city-wide recycling initiative. From 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Grady High School, Keep Atlanta Beautiful and the Midtown Neighbors' Association brought electronics and cardboard recycling to the neighborhood. Georgia E-Waste collected electronic trash, and Pratt Recycling set up a permanent recycling bin for cardboard in the parking lot at Grady High School on 8th Street. Georgia E Waste will return with its recycling truck monthly on third Saturdays. When will this program be brought to other areas of the city? What is included in electronic recyclables? Read More...
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| 2008
Litter Index |
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In January Keep Atlanta Beautiful completed its third Litter Index for the City of Atlanta and each of its City Council Districts. The same streets were traveled for the 2008 Litter Index Data as we traveled in 2006 and in 2007. The results of the Litter Index are intended to help quickly and reliably assess the litter situation in our city and to assist us in achieving long-term, sustainable results with litter abatement programs. Read More... |
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| 2008 Bring One For The Chipper |
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On Saturday, January 5, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Keep Atlanta Beautiful, Keep America Beautiful, Home Depot, and the Davey Tree Expert Company participated in the 18th annual Bring One for the Chipper Program. Over 790 Christmas trees were brought to Atlanta’s two Home Depots to be recycled into severely needed mulch instead of contributing to Atlanta’s landfill. Read More...
Request Mulch... |
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| 2007 News |
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| Atlanta Recycles Day & Mayor-thon Race 2 Recycle |
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On Saturday, November 17, at Isabel Gates Webster Park, Mayor Shirley Franklin, Keep Atlanta Beautiful and Park Pride celebrated Atlanta Recycles Day. One hundred and eighty citizens registered to participate in the 5-k and 1-mile fun run and raised $25,000 toward recycling education and the installation of a recycled, rubberized jogging track at Isabel Gates Webster Park. Atlanta Recycles Day was also a platform to launch initiatives that support the Mayor’s goals for a Greener Atlanta. Read More...
See also www.AmericaRecycles.org |
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| Trader Vic’s 31st Anniversary Benefits KAtlB |
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Trader Vic’s celebrated 31 years in Atlanta at its Downtown Hilton location with Lavapalooza 2007, an all day poolside luau on May 19. In recognition of KAtlB’s contribution to a cleaner and greener city, Trader Vic’s donated $1000 to KAtlB. In addition, Household Finance used the occasion to present KAtlB a $3000 contribution toward its Erase Litter program with Atlanta Public Schools’ high schools. Read More... |
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| Inman Middle School Gets into Recycling |
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An Inman Middle School science class about to study recycling contacted Peggy Denby, Executive Director of KAtlB. Peggy asked for assistance from Karin Zarin, Atlanta’s Recycle Manager. Karin introduced the science study unit with a brief overview of Recycle/Reuse. In addition to their sunglasses, stickers, and bracelets, the students were given car litter bags to take home to their parents. Congratulations to these students who are learning to reuse, recycle, and reACT. Read More... |
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| Arms Around Atlanta Earth Day |
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The Arms Around Atlanta Earth Day Celebration on April 21 and 22 was a resounding success. The City of Atlanta, Keep Atlanta Beautiful, and the BeltLine Partnership led 31 neighborhoods across Atlanta in 55 teams consisting of 1211 volunteers who collected 8500 bags of non-recyclable litter, 92 bags of recyclables, 14,000 tires, and 80,000 pounds of E-Waste. Read More... |
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| 2007
Litter Index |
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In January Keep
Atlanta Beautiful completed its second annual Litter Index
for the City of Atlanta and each of its City Council
Districts. The
very same streets were traveled for the 2007 Litter Index
Data as we traveled in 2006.
So this year, we also have comparison data to
present. The
results of the Litter Index are intended to help quickly
and reliably assess the litter situation in our city and
to assist us in achieving long-term, sustainable results
with litter abatement programs. Read More... |
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| 2007 Bring One For The Chipper |
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Keep Atlanta Beautiful, Keep Georgia Beautiful,
The Home Depot, and The Davey Tree Expert Company
participated in the 17th annual “Bring One
for the Chipper” and recycled 834 Christmas trees on
January 6, 2007. Read More... |
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| 2006 News |
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| Georgia’s
Anti-Litter Campaign |
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Keep Atlanta Beautiful board members were among
the 260 attendees from all over Georgia at the
Governor’s Litter Summit on August 29-30, 2006, at the
Atlanta Marriott Downtown. Governor Perdue introduced his
Education, Eradication, Enforcement campaign against
visible pollution and the campaign’s mascot, the Brown
Trasher. This campaign will spend more than $2.25 million
from July 2005 through June 2007. Currently the Georgia
Department of Transportation spends $14 million per year
just removing litter on state roads. The slogan for this
state-wide anti-litter initiative is also its website, www.litteritcostsyou.org
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| Electronic Waste Collected for Recycling |
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On May 6, 2006, KAtlB, along with Atlanta City Councilmember Carla Smith, Advanced Disposal, Dream Sanitation, Atlanta Recycling Solutions, and the Department of Public Works collected electronic trash from conscientious citizens who brought their E-trash to Turner Field for recycling and proper disposal. The EPA estimates that Americans discard 2 million tons of tech trash each year that pollutes landfills.
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| Grady High School Initiates Litter Abatement Program |
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At a May 2 dedication ceremony at Grady High School, Keep Atlanta Beautiful initiated a city-wide program to educate Atlanta’s school children about litter abatement . At this ceremony the Grady campus received nine trash receptacles donated by Georgia Power. Here Peggy Denby, Excecutive Director of KAtlB, thanks those partnering with KAtlB in this project: Mary Norwood, Atlanta City Council; the vice-president and president of Grady’s student government; Nelson Jeter of Georgia Power; David Scott, Commissioner of Public Works; Anne Fauver, Atlanta City Council; Aaron Turpeau, president of KAtlB; James Witherspoon, of Public Works; Kathleen Bertrand, KAtlB board member and Grady parent; and president of Grady Senior Class.
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| Great American Cleanup |
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On April 22, Earth Day Saturday, 14 volunteers from KAtlB and the city cleaned two miles of roadside litter along Memorial Drive from Second Avenue to Moreland Avenue. Working a total of 70 hours, these rain-soaked volunteers bagged 1500 pounds of trash, took down 50 illegal signs, and cleaned three illegal dumpsites. Read More... |
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| Wren's Nest Reading Garden |
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Keep Atlanta Beautiful chose Atlanta’s Wren’s Nest Museum as Atlanta’s site for one of the nine reading gardens donated nation-wide by Troy-Bilt. The opening ceremony for this beautiful garden was held March 16 at this historic landmark in West End. Read More... |
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| Initiative to Stop Illegal Signage |
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Keep Atlanta
Beautiful is committed to stopping illegal signage in the
public right-of-way. This “litter on a stick” or “street
spam” is a major source of visible pollution in itself;
it is a public safety hazard; it encourages other forms of
roadside littering; and it is a violation of city law. For
these reasons, KAtlB developed a brochure that succinctly
summarizes Atlanta’s Sign Ordinance. Read More... |
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