{"id":2883,"date":"2019-09-17T07:20:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2020-03-11T07:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:08:07","slug":"keep-america-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/keep-america-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep America Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student Contributor -H. MacRae<br \/>\nThe mission statement for Keep America Beautiful is \u201cTo inspire and educate people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment.\u201d This organization and its volunteers are dedicated to improving recycling and end littering around the country. Keep America Beautiful, with the help of its five million <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-268\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/11\/2nd-picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"181\" \/>plus volunteers, wants to educate people about the impact of recycling and the impact of littering.<\/p>\n<p>The three key factors that guide Keep America Beautiful\u2019s work to improve recycling are convenience, communication, and cause. By educating the American people to recycle at home, at work and on the go, they create jobs and provide recyclables to manufacture new products and packaging. This also helps benefit the environment and surrounding communities. Keep America Beautiful also works with the State Leaders Council, leaders from affiliates in major metropolitan areas, and consulting firm Econsult Solutions Inc. Working with associations such as these helps clean and prevent litter around the country. Along with cleaning up America, this organization focuses on creating community gardens, tree plantings, and vacant lot transformations. This helps keep America beautiful and green.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-269\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/11\/download-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Teachers and students could partner with this organization by donating or volunteering. To find volunteer locations near you, go to their website and there is locater for opportunities near you. You can partner as a corporation, educational institution and even as an individual.<br \/>\nRecycling and litter pick up, become more common around the country, but still many areas are not doing either. Beginning it in your community can help support this organization and their efforts to keep America beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission statement for Keep America Beautiful is \u201cTo inspire and educate people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment.\u201d This organization and its volunteers are dedicated to improving recycling and end littering around the country. Keep America Beautiful, with the help of its five million plus volunteers, wants to educate people about the impact of recycling and the impact of littering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2049,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic","tag-national-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}