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Keep McIntosh Beautiful
"Working Together for a Clean, Green and Beautiful Darien and McIntosh County"
NEWSLETTER July 2023
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WELCOME! You are receiving this newsletter as a KMB member, friend, volunteer or supporter to stay updated on KMB news, events, and volunteer opportunities. YOU make KMB activities possible, and through your actions everyday, you help keep our community clean, green, and beautiful. THANK YOU! (photo below by Bob Claxton) | |
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Meet our New Executive Director
Keep McIntosh Beautiful is happy to introduce Tracy Sanford as its new Executive Director. Tracy, who will be on the job July 17, couldn’t be more excited about getting started.
“I’m absolutely fired up about taking on this role with Keep McIntosh Beautiful,” she says. “It will be a joy to work with such dedicated people, organizations, and local businesses all striving to keep Darien and McIntosh County one of the best places to live, work, and visit.”
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Georgia's Coast is Not an Ashtray
For the sixth consecutive year, Keep McIntosh Beautiful has joined entities in Georgia’s six coastal counties to continue a joint battle against the nation’s number one most littered item: cigarette butts.
Made of cellulose acetate, a type of plastic, cigarette butts do not easily biodegrade. Discarded butts have a negative impact as land litter, but once blown into storm drains or tossed directly into water sources, this toxic litter becomes marine debris, leaching chemicals into marine and aquatic environments and potentially being ingested by those inhabitants.
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So far, the combined five-year effort has resulted in the placement of more than 600 cigarette waste receptacles. KMB will be making available again this summer both free-standing and pole-mounted receptacles.
READ MORE about this initiative
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New Recycling Guidelines, a Glass Recycling option and more..
The Dos and Don'ts have changed for what will be accepted by Waste Management through its curbside service in McIntosh County. We've posted what's ACCEPTABLE and NOT ACCEPTABLE in your yellow-top recycling bin now on the KMB website. CLICK HERE for the list and some recycling tips.
The biggest change is that GLASS IS NOT ALLOWED in your mixed recycling now. This is not entirely a bad thing, as glass breakage, which is common, can contaminate the other items in a truck's load - paper, cardboard, metal and plastics - making them all unfit to recycle. Collecting glass separately from other recyclables solves this problem. Until there's a convenient option for glass recycling glass in McIntosh County, there is another option - donating it to GlassWRX.
READ MORE about GlassWRX
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2023 EVENTS COMING UP - Save the Dates!
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Thursday, Sept. 28 KMB Member/Adopt-A Appreciation & Open House
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Saturday, October 21 RIVERS ALIVE Barrington Park/Altamaha River Cleanup
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Saturday, Nov. 18 Recycling Collection Event
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Sunday, Dec. 3, Tree Seedling Giveaway during Darien Christmas celebration
DETAILS IN THE AUGUST NEWSLETTER
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JOIN KMB as a member or RENEW your membership TODAY during our Summer Member Drive! | |
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KMB needs your support and your volunteer participation. Please join us or renew your membership for 2023-24 TODAY! It's easy to do on our website, with a downloadable form or with PayPal.
Keep McIntosh Beautiful is a volunteer-based, self-funded 501(c)3 non-profit affiliate of Keep America Beautiful and the Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation, but we receive no funds from either organization or financial support from any government entity.
Individual and local business support is VITAL for our operation and to fund KMB activities for Litter Prevention and Control; Recycling, Education; Beautification projects and our Abandoned Buildings Removal Assistance Program, benefitting Darien and McIntosh County. Thank you!
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Adopt A Highway, Park or Spot
A big thanks to all our Adopt A Highway/park/spot volunteers in Darien and throughout the county. There are still plenty of miles and places needing some TLC in our county. Please consider making this a part of the way you help keep our community clean and green. Click the link below for more information and an application.
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YOU can help create a clean, green and beautiful community
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Partner with KMB as a MEMBER. Together, we DO make a difference!
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DONATE to fund KMB activities
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Practice the 3 R's - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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Sign up for FREE Curbside Recycling by calling 912-437-6671 to get your service started
(Photo right by Bob Claxton)
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