Activities and Events
Great American Cleanup™ in Little Rock
The 2012 Cleanup will be held on Saturday, March 10, 2012 from 8:00 until noon
Neighborhood Associations in Little Rock are being encouraged to organize efforts in their own neighborhood. The neighborhoods and designated parks will need volunteers to help with cleanups.
We need you, your frineds, neighbors and your organization to help by volunteering. We are counting on you to help make this event a success.
You can contact us at: info@klrb.org or call us 765-5350 and leave a message. Please tell us your organization; contact name, phone, and email; how you would like to help; and how many volunteers will there be helping (approximately).
2011 Cleanup Results: Saturday, March 12, 8:00 – noon
996 Volunteers contributed 1,958 hours.
44.48 tons or 88,960 pounds of litter and trash were collected.
Approximately 664 city blocks were cleaned.
29 City parks were cleaned
4 miles of waterways were cleaned
7 site were beautified.
Great American Cleanup Poster Contest
This year’s Great American Cleanup in Arkansas will include a Youth Poster Contest for students in grades K-5. KAB is sponsoring the poster contest to involve students, to increase awareness of the Great American Cleanup in Arkansas and to educate the public about the importance of a clean and beautiful community in improving economic development and environmental quality of life.
Posters are due Feburary 10.
Cigarette Litter Prevention Program
Twelve ash recepticles have been purchased and install by KLRB in the River Market area and the 1400 block of S. Main. Pocket ashtrays have been distributed to smokers in Little Rock. To find out how to purchase some of these recepticles for you business or neighborhood, contact us at info@klrb.org.
Great Arkansas Cleanup
A fall, statewide effort headed up by Keep Arkansas Beautiful to promote neighborhood and community cleanups.
Annual Litter Index Survey
Join us the morning of August 6 at 8:15 am at the Hinton Neighborhood Center (12th & Pine) to help with our annual survey – contact us at info@klrb.org to get involved.
By assessing the types of litter in our community, this tool helps us determine the types of community-improvement programs we need in order to achieve the results we desire. By consistent use of this index, we can track overall progress and show hard evidence of successful community enhancement. The index also allows us to target areas of the community where we need to focus our efforts to get more community involvement in the Adopt-A-Street and other cleanup programs.
Earth Day Events
April events bring awareness of the impacts of our lives on the environment. KLRB joins with others in the community to educate about litter prevention, waste reduction, recycling, community improvement, and community involvement.
Adopt-A-Street
Keep Little Rock Beautiful partners with the City of Little Rock’s Public Works’ Adopt-A Street Program. This in an opportunity to beautify the city by volunteering to pick up litter and trash on selected streets. There are many streets in need of adoption. Keep Little Rock Beautiful targets streets identified in the Annual Litter Survey as the “10 Most Littered” and actively seeks out volunteers to adopt the top 10 each year.
Volunteers and groups identify a street (3-7 blocks or more) and pick up litter and trash at least 6 times per year. Public Works provides lists of available streets, signage, safety vests and litter bags, and scheduled pick up of trash collected.
America Recycles Day – November 15Ch3. America Recycles Day – November 15
To get involved contact Keep Little Rock Beautiful at info@klrb.org or 501-765-3530 or Little Rock Public Works Adopt-A-Street Program at 501-371-4808.