The Keep Sarasota County Beautiful
is a county-wide program whose mission is to enhance and
promote public interest and participation in the general
improvement of the environment throughout Sarasota County.
This is done through the efforts of cleanup programs,
education, recycling and other methods of reducing solid
waste. It is an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., a
national, non-profit, public education organization dedicated
to improving waste handling practices in American
communities.
- Keep Sarasota County Beautiful
(KSCB) relies strongly on volunteer efforts and corporate
support.
- KSCB initiates community cleanup
projects to keep our community free of debris.
- Cleanup projects include areas
in Gillespie Park, Laurel, Newtown, Nokomis, and North Port
or anywhere a volunteer group wants to target.
Annually there are two major
cleanup events: April — Great American Cleanup, a volunteer
program which focuses heavily on picking up litter, including
cigarette butts; September — Florida Coastal Cleanup,
promoting marine debris awareness. Special clean up events may
also be organized.
Keep Sarasota
County Beautiful Advisory Board
Purpose: To work with the KSCB Program
Manager to organize, review and implement countywide
beautification, education, and litter control programs and
advises and make recommendations to the County Commissioners
regarding such programs.
Term: Three years
Members:
16
Meetings: Second Wednesday of every month except July,
August and December.
Keep
Sarasota County Beautiful Awards
Recognition
This annual awards celebration
honors volunteers for their outstanding contributions in
fostering public-private partnerships to address
litter.
Bag-it-in-Your-Car-Day
This
program designed to reduce litter on roadways and highways by
promoting public awareness and encouraging motorists to
refrain from disposing of trash from their car.
Adopt-a-Road, Park, Pond, Shore and
Spot
The program offers businesses and civic
groups an opportunity to show an interest in a cleaner
community by selecting an area to maintain and beautify.
Participation in the program is free. Programs in which you
can participate include: Adopt-a-Road, Park, Pond, Shore and
Spot.
You may know of an area that is
littered with trash and needs the attention of your community,
and the Adopt-a-Road program wants to help. A list of the top
20 Sarasota County roads in need of adoption are maintained.
There is a great variety of adoption possibilities. Call us
and help out our community by Adopting a Road, Pond, Shore or
Spot.
What is
required
- Adopted miles or areas are to
be maintained in a continual state of cleanliness through
a joint effort to keep our environment clean and healthy.
- Pick up litter/debris and bag
it.
- Participants clean areas a
minimum of four times per year and are encouraged to
schedule a clean up in April to coincide with the Great
America Clean Up and in September to coincide with the
Florida Coastal Cleanup.
What Keep
Sarasota County Beautiful provides
- Safety training
- Personalized appreciation sign
(except at the beaches)
- Documentation for your record
of accomplishments, which is ultimately incorporated in
national Keep America
- Beautiful reporting
- Safety vests and trash bags
for use by the group
- Removal of trash bags
- Removal of large, heavy or
bulky litter and debris
- Annual recognition of active
adopt group accomplishments
Portable
Pocket Ashtrays
Keep Sarasota County Beautiful,
use portable pocket ashtrays for your butts.
- Cigarette butts take seven years
to decompose.
- The cigarette butt is the single
largest source of litter in Sarasota County.
- Pocket ashtrays promote
awareness of this unsightly problem and helps reduce
cigarette butts on Sarasota streets, roads and beaches.
- Call Keep Sarasota County
Beautiful to obtain a FREE pocket ashtray at
861-6767.
|
