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Welcome to Keep America Beautiful - Topeka/Shawnee County!
Please make note:
Our new e-mail address is:
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Our new phone number is: 785.224.0446
Please RSVP for all events to Philicia at 224-0446 or
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Project ReDirectory phone book recycling will kick off at Topeka Zoo at 10:00 a.m. Friday, August 6th. This year's theme is "Don't Leave Your Old Phone Books 'Lion' Around." Area McDonald's offer a free soft drink to those patrons bringing in a phone book, and Dillons stores will have collection bins. For more information contact:
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or call 224-0446.
Cutting for a Cause is still looking for volunteers to mow for the elderly and disabled who have no one else to turn to. They mow the third Saturday of each month. If you would like to help out, please contact Philicia. July 17 is the next date to mow.
In Executive Partnership with Waste Management of Kansas
This program is funded in part through the use of funds provided by the City of Topeka
In Executive Partnership with Shawnee County
As part of the Pepsi Refresh grant program, Keep America Beautiful Topeka/Shawnee County in partnership with Pepsi Cola Bottling of Topeka is implementing a new program called Lend A Bin. Civic groups and organizations may check out portable recycling bins for their events. Their volunteers will check out the bins, transport the recyclables to be recycled, and return the bins to the KAB office.
Other Great American Cleanup events include:
KAB Shunga Mural Project—May 22-Artists and volunteers begin to paint a mural along the Shunga Trail at 2:00 p.m.
TARC Industries, 1800 SW 42nd, will offer free document destruction May 17-21 from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm.
Advantage Metals in partnership with the Keep American Beautiful-Topeka/Shawnee County program is continuing their sponsorship of an aluminum can recycling project through May 31st.The Keep America Beautiful Program will provide free bags and stickers so that an additional five-cent bonus over market price on each pound of cans recycled will be paid.Bags and stickers can be obtained at Advantage Metals, 1628 NW Gordon.
The Great American Cleanup is an annual program sponsored by the national Keep America Beautiful program and the following national sponsors:The Dow Chemical Company; The Glad Products Company; Nestle Waters N.A.; o.b. Tampons; Pepsi-Cola Company; The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company; Solo Cup Company; Troy-Bilt® Lawn and Garden Equipment; Waste Management, Inc.; Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.; and Educational Partner: Rubber Manufacturers Association
For additional information, please call Philicia McKee, at Keep America Beautiful-Topeka/Shawnee County at 224-0446 or e-mail
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This part of our new website will be dedicated to featuring businesses or individuals who follow good environmental practices. If you would like to see your business featured here, or if you would like to honor an individual for their best environmental efforts who give back to this community, please send information to
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Metal Scrappers
The following individuals will come to your house to pick up all metal free of charge:
Kathy & Ronnie 354-1810
Blanche--640-5944 All appliances and metal, small charge for basements and inside pick ups.
Bobby Harris 233-0104
Bernie Bower 235-5205
Best Buy, 1600 SW Wanamaker, 272-1353
Hours: M-Thu., 10am-9pm, F-Sat., 10am-10pm, Sun., 10am-7pmNi-Cd Batteries, nickel metal hydride batteries, lithium ion batteries, small sealed lead batteries (>2 lbs), rechargeable batteries, telephones, ink cartridges, televisions and computers with a $10 fee, but you receive a $10 gift card to the store.
K-State Research and Extension Office
1740 SW Western Avenue
Topeka, KS 66604-3095
785-232-0062
K-State Research and Extension Office has free compost bins available. They are for Shawnee County residents only and are available through their office, one per household (not for resale). The Shawnee County Recycling Department supplies our participating nurseries with the compost bins. Shawnee County residents come into our office between the hours of 8 to 5, Monday through Friday and fill out a sheet for the bin, take a copy of that to their participating nurseries.
Soil tests - They also have a grant from the Shawnee County Conservation District that covers one lawn or garden routine soil test per fiscal year as long as the land is in Shawnee County and as long as the grant lasts.
Thought for the Day
Today is a celebration of where you began,
what you have become,
and the great things you will surely do in the years to come.
Mayor Bunten
“Keep America Beautiful is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to cleaning up our city. Their contribution to our public efforts that include neighborhood cleanups, the removal of unnecessary public signage and using inmate work crews in our parks, low-income neighborhoods and city streets is significant, and their involvement is an important ingredient in the success we are experiencing.
I acknowledge the importance of this organization that provides a point of contact to those who are prepared to get involved in recapturing and restoring the natural beauty of this city from the urban clutter that today detracts from that beauty.”
This program is funded in part through the use of funds provided by the City of Topeka
Welcome to Keep America Beautiful - Topeka/Shawnee County!
