Keep Clark County Beautiful - Clark Coutny Ohio Waste Management District

About KCCB

Our Mission is to engage Clark County residents to take pride, ownership, and responsibility for enhancing their community’s environment.

What we do: We all recognize that a cleaner community appears to be safer, healthier, more prosperous, and more welcoming. Not unlike many other communities, and in spite of all our best efforts, Clark County has wrestled for years with the challenges of litter, graffiti, and general mismanagement of trash.

With the intent of bringing these issues into focus and motivating the wider community to join in making improvements, a collaborative effort to initiate a local Keep America Beautiful (KAB) program has resulted in the organization of Keep Clark County Beautiful, or KCCB. This national affiliation helps to highlight the value of community beautification and putting waste in its proper place and offers proven models and tools that enhance our ability to make a difference here in Clark County. Coordinated by the Clark County Waste Management District, we are one of more than one thousand communities participating in the KAB network.

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A little more about Keep America Beautiful

How does Keep America Beautiful work?

KAB was established in 1953 and is the nation’s largest volunteer based community action and education organization. KAB strives to change behaviors and improve communities by focusing on:

Litter Prevention: Defining litter, identifying the cause, preventing it, organizing clean-ups, and properly handling discarded wastes in our community.
Waste Reduction: Reducing the impact of mismanaged solid waste in our communities through integrated programs including source reduction, reuse, recycling, and education.
Beautification: Improving the visual aspects of our communities through programs that beautify our environment including community gardens, vacant lot restoration, highway beautification, urban forests, native and wildflower plantings, as well as graffiti prevention and abatement.

The KAB guiding principles

Education: the key to encouraging positive behaviors toward community improvement.
Individual Responsibility: Inspiring individuals to become more engaged as citizens and stewards of the environment.
Public-Private Partnerships: broad-based community alliances are essential to achieving sustainable community improvement.
Volunteer Action: Engaging volunteers extends the reach of educational efforts and multiplies the impact of our actions.

Who We Are

KCCB Board Members

Charles Patterson, Board President
Mike Morris, Vice President
Jane Balchan
County Engineer John Burr
Jim Campbell
City Commissioner Karen Duncan
Kathy Estep
Maureen Fagans
Josh Harmon
County Commissioner David Hartley
Dale Henry
Lisa Holmes
Sherriff Gene Kelly
Tina Koumoutsos
Marianne Nave
Matthew McNelly
Ron Melchi
Judge Joseph Monnin
Chris Moore
Paul Parloto
Mindy Rigel
Ted Vander Roest
Dave Waugh

Projects & Services

KCCB supports the Great American Clean-up, a national volunteer litter collection drive held from March until May, around Earth Day. Contact the Waste Management District at 521.2020 or visit www.kab.org/site/PageServer?pagename=gaclanding for more information.

We also offer assistance to groups and individuals interested in the Adopt-a-Road and Adopt-a-Spot programs, providing clean-up supplies such as trash bags, gloves, litter grabbers, safety equipment, and more.

Graffiti removal is a constant hassle in Clark County. Now, KCCB and partners are equipped with a graffiti removal unit—able to blast away or cover large areas of graffiti quickly and easily. The unit consists of a trailer equipped with a generator, air compressor and a blaster that sprays a mixture of water and a baking-soda compound that quickly removes paint from surfaces but does not damage plants or the environment. The unit is available to any local government who has employees trained to use it. The training can be done in about one hour and scheduled through the Clark County Waste Management District.