Keep North Platte and Lincoln County Beautiful

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Welcome to the Keep North Platte & Lincoln County Beautiful (KNPLCB) website! We have provided information on our many programs and activities and we welcome you to become involved in Keeping North Platte and Lincoln County, Nebraska Beautiful!

KNPLCB Hires New Executive Director
Keep North Platte & Lincoln County Beautiful is pleased to announce that Mindy Hope has been selected as the new Executive Director. Mindy grew up near North Platte, graduated from UNL with a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1994 and has lived in North Platte for the past 13 years.
Read full story in our Summer Newsletter

KNPLCB has purchased larger roll off units!
There will be a ribbon cutting for the units at 5 p.m. on March 17th at the Senior Center location. The larger units will be located at the Senior Center and First United Methodist Church. All the smaller units will be located at Regional Recycling. All units will begin accepting paper, magazine, and newsprint mix after the ribbon cutting ceremony
Click here for poster!

Recyclable of The Month!
July recyclable of the month- PLASTIC #2
**View ALL RECYCLABLES for each month!

Beauty and the Bees!
Most of us have heard the dire reports from entomologists from across the country that we are losing our honeybee populations. The first reports came out in October of 2006.1 Bees are the primary pollinators for as much as one-third of our popular agricultural products.¹ The vanishing bee .... Click here to read full story!

Pick up a postage paid envelope to recycle your used cell phones at:
715 S. Jeffers/ 3rd Floor and Senior Center 900 E. 10th

Cigarette Litter Prevention Program
Following the initial Litter Index tour, a group of two KNPLCB staff and one volunteer counted each piece of cigarette litter, including butts, packaging, and lighters in an initial test area. The test area was located in the blocks from Jeffers to Willow and from Hahn to William in North Platte, Nebraska. KNPLCB has joined with the national Cigarette Litter Prevention Program sponsored by Keep America Beautiful. Program implementation is planned for this summer and will include a four step process: 1. Click here to read full story!

We’re Turning 30!!
Keep North Platte & Lincoln County Beautiful will begin its 30th year of providing quality, action-oriented environmental programming in 2008. We rely on community donations to make our programming possible. Please help us celebrate and continue our mission by making a tax-deductible donation today! At KNPLCB, we turn every dollar donated into over $14.00 in measurable community benefits. In addition to cash donations, we are always in need of office supplies and a gift of your time. You can be sure that your donation is making a real difference where YOU live. Donations should be mailed to KNPLCB Board Attn: Donations PO Box 313 North Platte, NE 69103.

Catalog Choice – Eliminate Waste and Save Natural Resources
Each year, 19 billion catalogs are mailed to American consumers. Catalog Choice is a free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox. Use it to reduce your mailbox clutter, while helping save natural resources. Your participation benefits merchants, lowering their cost of distribution and helping them better target their market. Also, your participation as a member of the Catalog Choice community will collectively make a huge positive impact on the environment, as together we reduce the energy consumed, the carbon emissions, and the lost forests resulting from the current annual production and discarding of billions of paper catalogs.

Visit Catalog Choice at: https://www.catalogchoice.org/welcome

Click Here to make Green Thumb /Green Vision award nominations!

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Funding Factory

2008

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29 Years of Community Action
The mission of KNPLCB is to educate and interact with the
public encouraging beautification, a litter free environment
and waste reduction through recycling.

P.O. Box 313 · North Platte, Nebraska 69103 · 308.534.8100 · Email