Press Releases

(September 21, 2020)  – Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful seeks volunteers to participate in Pick Up Pennsylvania as a way to celebrate National Public Lands Day. Traditionally, National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest single-day volunteer effort, meant to encourage environmental stewardship and build connections between people and

(September 10, 2020) Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful is offering supplemental learning tools for in-class, virtual or homeschoolers through their Open Your Eyes to Litter series of five books. The books provide hands-on learning and are appropriate for grades K through six. Each book addresses the PA Department of

September 3, 2020 – Pick Up Pennsylvania, a program of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, runs from September 1 through November 30. During this time, residents are encouraged to improve their communities by picking up litter. The program supports the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup, the largest volunteer-based cleanup

From Left: PA State Representative Tony DeLuca; Faith Milazzo, Community Pride Award Recipient; Shannon Reiter, President of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful and Myrna Newman, Executive Director of Allegheny CleanWays. The Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Community Pride Award recognizes outstanding environmental stewardship by a business, individual, school, community organization or

    (August 4, 2020) – Registration for Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s Pick Up Pennsylvania fall program is Open. Most communities have experienced an increase of visible litter lining their streets, parking lots, trails and waterways during the past few months under stay at home orders. The results

          FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 23, 2020 Heidi Pedicone, Program Director | Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Tel:  (724) 836-4121 | Email:  hpedicone@keeppabeautiful.org  | Web site:  www.keeppabeautiful.org Danielle Krebs, Communications Manager | Tri County Community Action Tel: (717) 232-9757 x101 | Email: dkrebs@cactricounty.org | website:

(July 2, 2020) – As residents of Pennsylvania seek recreation in public spaces, including parks and trails, this Independence Day weekend, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful issued an urgent reminder to properly dispose of trash and litter as they participate in 4th of July celebrations. “As we approach a

Whether intentionally put there or blown from trashcans, dumpsters, shopping carts or cars, it is safe to say that most communities have experienced an increase of visible litter lining their streets, parking lots, trails and waterways during the past few months under stay at home orders. Keep

(June 16, 2020) – Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful (KPB) received a $20,000 grant from Keep America Beautiful to continue their work with the Keep America Beautiful Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP), the nation’s largest program aimed at reducing cigarette litter. This is the tenth year that KPB received

(May 28, 2020) – We have all been told that fresh air and sunshine can help improve your mood, lower blood pressure and reduce stress to name a few. But if the sight of litter while enjoying nature defeats the purpose and you, like many outdoor enthusiasts,