Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful (KPB) received a $10,000 grant from Keep America Beautiful to continue its work with the Keep America Beautiful Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP), the nation's largest program aimed at reducing cigarette litter. This is the ninth year that KPB received funding from the national organization.
Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful will partner with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) focusing on Pennsylvania State Parks with recreational lakes and tributaries to the Delaware River and Bay. The parks included in the 2019 CLPP grant are Benjamin Rush, Nockamixion, Ridley Creek, and Tyler state parks.
To combat against litter, the program advocates that participating communities use four approaches: encourage enforcement of litter laws, including cigarette litter; raise awareness about the issue; place ash receptacles in places like entrances to public buildings; and distribute portable ashtrays to smokers.
In 2018, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful also collaborated with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) to implement the CLPP program at Point State Park, Linn Run, Laurel Summit, Laurel Ridge, Oil Creek, and Yellow Creek state parks, all of which offer recreational lakes, whitewater rafting, canoeing, and kayaking as well as and thousands of miles of hiking trails. The final scan, performed after the installation of ash receptacles, education implementation, and the distribution of portable ashtrays, documented a reduction rate of 81 percent.
For more information, readers may visit http://www.keeppabeautiful.org.
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