Keep La. Beautiful grant headed for Morgan City

Keep St. Mary Beautiful, in partnership with the Morgan City government, has been selected as one of the 98 recipients of the 2023 Keep Louisiana Beautiful trash receptacle grant program.

These grants were made possible with funding from the Louisiana state government and the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.

According to Lea Hebert, chairperson for Keep St. Mary Beautiful, 10 trash receptacles will be installed in high-traffic and high-pedestrian areas around Morgan City.

St. Mary Parish has an ongoing cleanup campaign throughout the year and works with high schools, churches, groups and the parish District Attorney’s Office on litter abatement and cleanup projects.

Through the 2023 trash receptacle grant program, Keep Louisiana Beautiful distributed 879 receptacles to 98 organizations in 40 Louisiana parishes.

As part of the requirements of this grant, Keep St. Mary Beautiful will perform a post installation litter scan and compare the data collected to preliminary scan results.

Data will be shared with the public once available.

“The efforts of Keep St. Mary Beautiful have had a significant impact in showing the beauty of our resilient community and the readiness there for the increase tourism that will come with the designation of being a national estuarine research reserve,” said Dr. Monica Mancuso, St. Mary Excel.