Asheville GreenWorks honored by Keep America Beautiful for high performance in 2011
January 15, 2012
Asheville GreenWorks (formerly Quality Forward) recently received Keep America Beautiful President’s Circle Award. The President’s Circle Award recognizes exemplary performance made by certified affiliates of the national non-profit to reduce litter, minimize waste, recycle, and beautify their local communities.
In qualifying for a President’s Circle Award, Asheville GreenWorks met Keep America Beautiful’s standards of excellence by conducting an annual Litter Index (a tool used to identify litter “hot spots” and track progress in remedying the problem), calculating the affiliate’s cost/benefit ratio, and engaging volunteers to take greater responsibility for their community environment. In addition,award recipients must conduct activities in Keep America Beautiful’s three core focus areas of litter prevention, recycling and waste reduction, and beautification/community greening. Through quarterly hard-to-recycle events, stream cleanups, dumpsite remediations, tree planting and preservation work, the Asheville GreenWorks has exceeded Keep America Beautiful’s expectations.
Since 1974, Asheville GreenWorks as sought to improve the Asheville-Buncombe community through grassroots, environmentally based “clean & green” projects. If you have an idea for a project please contact:
volunteer@ashevillegreenworks.org or visit www.ashevillegreenworks.org
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