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Welcome
Keep Lowell Beautiful
A Keep America Beautiful Affiliate
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Keep Lowell Beautiful’s Mission: Keep Lowell Beautiful, Inc. (KLB) is a non-profit (501)(c)(3) organization based in Lowell, Massachusetts. KLB promotes and fosters the involvement of residents in litter reduction, beautification, and proper solid waste management efforts. |
Keep Lowell Beautiful’s Goals:
Beautification
- Partnership with Lowell the Flowering City, Lowell National Parks, The Revolving Museum for the Community Greenhouse
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The Community Gardens Greenhouse Educational site on Aiken Street
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Gardening projects in the Acre and Downtown sections of Lowell
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Donations to the Greenhouse project
Litter Reduction
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Build team of neighborhood champions
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Evaluate hot spots
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Clean Ups
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Antilitter campaign
Solid Waste Reduction
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Recycling – increase the amount recycled, get more recycling downtown, make it easier to recycle
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Reuse – making it easy to reuse a good item
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Source Reduction – less in the first place
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Behavior change – what we can do and what we have to change in others
Education
- Develop a Service Learning Relationship with MCC and UMASS Lowell.
- Beautify a green area of public school grounds
- Develop educational poster for public schools
- Develop activities supporting the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks Standards to goals of Keep America Beautiful and present the activities in the History/Social Study and Science curriculums.