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August 24, 2006
CONTACT : Katie Sternberg or Josh Spradling
1-800-CLEAN-TX
H-E-B and Keep Texas Beautiful
Award Communities with Recycling Grants
(Austin, TX) – H-E-B and Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) recently announced that 11 communities will receive a share of $20,000 available through a grant program to support local, voluntary recycling activities. Grants awarded range in size from $1,000 - $3,000.
Winning projects include activities such as hosting a recycling-themed songwriting contest in schools, creating kits for teachers to implement recycling lessons in their classrooms, and creating a loaner program to provide recycling containers at local events. Many of the projects will be involved with Texas Recycles Day, held annually on November 15.
“Keep Texas Beautiful believes waste reduction is a key element to creating clean and beautiful communities,” Debbie Johnston, Keep Texas Beautiful president, said. “We are thrilled to partner with H-E-B to offer funding for local recycling endeavors. Whether it is through enhancing recycling programs or starting new projects, these grants will help KTB affiliates have a significant impact on their communities.”
“H-E-B is an environmentally proactive company that takes many steps to reduce waste. We are proud that we can help Texas communities do the same,” said Susan Ghertner, Manager of Environmental Affairs for H-E-B. Keep Texas Beautiful and H-E-B have partnered to offer environmental grants in the past, but this is the first time funding has been directly targeted towards recycling.
Keep Texas Beautiful , the statewide grassroots environmental and community improvement organization and affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, strives to educate and engage Texans to take responsibility for improving their community environment. KTB works with government, businesses, civic groups, and volunteers to ensure that every Texan has the opportunity to take individual responsibility for making Texas the cleanest, most beautiful state in the nation.
For more information about KTB, call 1-800-CLEAN-TX.
For more than 100 Years, H-E-B has been an innovative retailer. Known for its fresh food, quality products and convenient services, H-E-B strives to provide the best customer experience at every day low prices. Based in San Antonio, H-E-B employs more than 60,000 Partners and serves millions of customers in more than 150 communities throughout Texas and Mexico. For more information about H-E-B, please visit www.heb.com.
Affiliates Receiving Funding:
Community |
KTB
Affiliate
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Amount Awarded |
Recycling
Project
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Austin |
Keep Austin Beautiful |
$2,000 |
Provide Austin schools with “ Austin Recycles!” kits to help teachers incorporate recycling lessons into curriculum |
Big Spring |
Keep Big Spring Beautiful |
$1,700 |
Implement a pilot program call “Cans for Classes” at a local middle school campus |
Brownsville |
Brownsville Beautification Committee |
$2,900 |
Organize and administer a literary limerick/jingle contest about recycling for students in all Brownsville schools |
Houston |
Keep Houston Beautiful |
$3,000 |
Create promotional materials for “Go Green Rally”, a program to educate the public about the benefits of recycling |
Ingleside |
Keep Ingleside Beautiful |
$1,000 |
Create an aluminum can recycling collection to help establish recycling habits among area youth |
Montgomery County |
Montgomery County Beautification Association |
$2,000 |
Create a contest for area residents who recycle at local collection centers to raise awareness of community recycling |
Odessa |
Keep Odessa Beautiful |
$1,000 |
Fund the educational materials for Project Helping Hands Environment Education Program to involve elementary students in recycling |
Sugar Land |
Keep Sugar Land Beautiful |
$2,000 |
Establish a sustainable plastics and aluminum can recycling program on two high school campuses |
Victoria |
Keep Victoria Beautiful |
$1,400 |
Enhance “Victoria Kids Recycle!” program which educates more than 6,000 area students about Texas Recycles Day, drop-off recycling centers, and plastics recycling |
Waco |
Keep Waco Beautiful |
$2,000 |
Implement a Texas Recycles Day School Challenge this fall, inviting all local elementary schools to participate in a competition to collect the most recyclable or reusable waste |
Wimberley |
Keep Wimberley Beautiful |
$1,000 |
Purchase and loan recycling containers to organizations hosting special events |
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