Carroll County, GEORGIA, October 19th, 2023— Keep Carroll Beautiful received a $5,000 grant from the Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation, a statewide organization that leads more than 70 city and county affiliates in their efforts to end litter, reduce waste, promote recycling, and beautify communities. Now in its second year, the grant program was made possible […]
2023 Spring E-Recycling Recap
2023 Household Hazardous Waste an...
The upcoming Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) and Paper Shredding event will be held in partnership with Carroll County Solid Waste Department on Saturday, May 20th, 2023, between 9 am and 1 pm. This year’s event will take place in the OFS Furukawa campus parking lot, off 399 Adamson Industrial Boulevard, in Carrollton, Georgia. This free […]
Earth Day SPRING Electronics Recy...
Keep Carroll Beautiful celebrates Earth Day in style with the SPRING Electronics Recycling Amnesty Event. Carroll County, GA – The upcoming SPRING Electronics Recycling event will be held at two convenient locations on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2023, between 9 am and 1 pm. This year’s event will take place in the Southwire corporate parking […]
KCB hosted its first On the Table...
On the Table 2023 Recap: KCB staff and board welcomed representatives of the Carroll County Solid Waste Department, Carrollton Civic Woman’s Club, and Carrollton businesses. Together, we discussed educating the public on their recycling options, sharing the information in an easy-to-digest way, and reaching out to the younger audience. We produced a FIVE-POINT education outreach […]
Giving Tuesday 2022!
On November 29, 2022, people all around the world are coming together to tap into the power of human connection. Will you be one of them? Keep Carroll Beautiful appreciates your generosity on Giving Tuesday and any other day of the year! Learn how to get involved. […]
KCB’s New Office Location
Keep Carroll Beautiful spent over a decade at our last location on Dixie Street as guests of Tanner Health System. This gave us the freedom to build our organization and focus on the mission to engage the citizens of Carroll County in taking responsibility for improving our community’s environment. Now, with the plans for that building changing, we had an opportunity to find something permanent [,…]
A NEW CHAPTER FOR KEEP CARROLL BE...
January 25, 2022For Immediate Release CARROLL COUNTY, GA. Keep Carroll Beautiful (KCB), is moving its office into a new, temporary location. With the move, we expect short-term disruptions to our in-house recycling program for household batteries. KCB will continue to provide Adopt-A-Road cleanup supplies, event recycling bins, and run the regular recycling collection events like […]
2020 Carroll EMC Grant Report
Keep Carroll Beautiful and our Household Recycling Program was among the proud recipients of the Carroll EMC Foundation 2020 Impact Grants. The much-needed funding helped us send thousands of pounds of collected household hazardous materials to the proper recycling facilities. We were able to ship off 95% of the materials collected between 2018 and 2020, […]
2020 E-Recycling Results
KCB’s Electronics Recycling (or E-Recycling) is an amnesty event held twice a year and open to all residents of Carroll County (check our Facebook Events Page for future events). During the event, participants drop off old, broken, and/or unusable electronics in a designated location, and KCB ships them off to Atlanta Recycling Solutions – a […]
Green Run 2020 breaks participati...
80 runners and walkers support KCB’s fundraiser Between our awesome sponsors and 5K participants, the 2020 Green Run helped us raise almost $4,000 for recycling and litter prevention programs. Those funds will also help us establish a new community garden program in Carroll County. Results: Overall Finish List By age group You can check some […]
GGCU 2020 Report
The Great GreenBelt Cleanup 2020 is in the books! Over 170 volunteers joined Keep Carroll Beautiful to remove litter and debris, clean signs, and perform simple tasks on the Carrollton GreenBelt trail. Beautiful weather, happy faces, hard workers… we could not have asked for a better day on the trail! Families, friends, puppies, singles, small groups, big […]