Making our state cleaner, greener, and more beautiful
Our Vision
At the Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation, we believe that everyone deserves to live in a clean, green, and beautiful environment. By conserving our resources and keeping our landscapes free of blight, we not only provide green spaces that people and wildlife alike can enjoy, but keep communities safe and encourage economic development.
As a state affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, we support more than 70 local affiliates across Georgia and strive to increase our impact even further by engaging additional communities and individuals in our efforts to end litter, reduce waste, promote recycling, and beautify communities.
Our Initiatives
We believe everyone should do their part to build and maintain clean, green, beautiful spaces. That’s why we take action every day to improve and beautify communities across Georgia.
In 2024 alone, our network of affiliates and volunteers cleaned up 1.5 million pounds of litter and debris across Georgia. We’re incredibly proud of these numbers, but we also realize that preventing litter from happening in the first place is the ultimate solution.
We believe the most effective way to protect our environment is to stop creating waste in the first place. By encouraging our network to reuse items and reduce what they send to landfills, we reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sustain the environment for future generations.
Recycling benefits communities by preventing pollution and stimulating local economies. Last year, we recovered 4.9 million pounds of recyclable material that would have otherwise sat in landfills, supporting our manufacturers and keeping our neighborhoods clean.
Planting native trees, shrubs, and flowers not only makes Georgia a more beautiful place to live, but aids wildlife, strengthens communities, and creates tangible economic benefits. In 2024, we planted over 40,443 trees, shrubs, and flowers in communities across Georgia.
Our Impact
Over the past year, our network of affiliates and volunteers have made amazing strides toward improving Georgia’s environment by cleaning streets, parks, trails, and waterways.
1.5m
POUNDS OF LITTER & DEBRIS COLLECTED
4.9m
POUNDS OF LITTER & DEBRIS RECYCLED
405
MILES OF WATERWAYS CLEANED
Join Us
There are numerous ways you can get involved, whether you’d like to participate in an event in your neighborhood or learn more about entering our network of affiliates. Read below to discover the option that works best for you!
VOLUNTEER
Interested in hosting a cleanup near you? Curious about how you can improve or beautify the streets and parks near your home? Start by heading on over to your local affiliate.
FIND AN EVENT
Perhaps you want to learn more about the Great American Cleanup. Or perhaps you’d like to see how you can attend Bring One for the Chipper (our annual treecycling event)?
BECOME AN AFFILIATE
If none of our local programs exist where you live, the best solution is to start your own! We’re always interested in making Georgia greener.
Watch Us in Action
KGBF produced this video. Asha Ellen, Maia McFadden, Dwain A. Vaughn II, Tammy Keaton, Kimberly White, Chip Wilson, Lea King-Badyna, Janet Schultz, Laurie Riley, Stacy Smith, Jesse Cook, Katie Martin, Jenny Burdette, Beth Ivey, and the Georgia Nature Photographers Association contributed photos.
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