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Keep America Beautiful cleanup volunteers in 2021. Keep America Beautiful is a nonprofit organization founded in 1953. It is the largest community improvement organization in the United States, with more than 700 state and community-based affiliate organizations and more than 1,000 partner organizations.
America Recycles Day, also known as National Recycling Day, is a national observance in the United States dedicated to promoting recycling across the nation. Observed on November 15th every year, the observance is the signature recycling program of Keep America Beautiful [1] (KAB), the managing and promoting organization for the holiday.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced plans for about $100 million in grants to boost recycling and waste management - its first major effort in these areas in 30 years.
The second industrial revolution of the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to major increases in the national economic output, resulting in large increases in the generation of waste. Local and regional governments and private companies developed many diverse, and frequently unsafe or unsanitary, disposal technologies for disposal of this ...
The new law requires a clothing, apparel and textile extended producer responsibility (EPR) program, as defined by lawmakers, reported Waste Today. “I’m very proud to see SB 707 signed into law.
Statewide, the Ohio EPA has earmarked $3.8 million for community and litter programs.
The inventory was first proposed in a 1985 New York Times op-ed piece written by David Sarokin and Warren Muir, researchers for an environmental group, Inform, Inc. [2] Congress established TRI under Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA), and later expanded it in the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (PPA).
Five organizations in Ashland, Crawford, Marion and Richland counties are among 159 statewide awarded a total of $7.5 million in grant funding.