Keep St. Mary Beautiful receives grant for trash receptacles

Keep St. Mary Beautiful announces it has received a Trash Receptacle Grant from Keep Louisiana Beautiful to help with the litter in and around community parks, roads and throughout St. Mary Parish.
Keep Louisiana Beautiful awarded Keep St. Mary Beautiful with five trash receptacles to help reduce litter. This is to reduce the number of litter and cigarette butts at highways, roadways and waterways which will make these areas cleaner, the Keep St. Mary Beautiful news release states.
Last year, Keep Louisiana Beautiful awarded and managed 40 grants in 22 parishes for a total of $140,000.
“This grant will help with the reduction of litter that we see every day in public areas and throughout St. Mary Parish,” said Keep St. Mary Parish Beautiful Board Chair Lea Hebert. “However, the receptacles is not a cure. We need property owners, residents and businesses to take personal responsibility for their environment and engage the community in order to effectively control litter.”
Keep Louisiana Beautiful is commissioned by the State of Louisiana to administer litter prevention programs, training and grant funding to local communities and affiliate organizations throughout the state. The organization funding is administered by the Louisiana Department of Education from the litter abatement and education account from funds provided for in R.S. 32.412.
To learn more about Keep Louisiana Beautiful, visit www.keeplouisianabeautiful.org.