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Jul. 18, 2018 7:45 am
Philly community orgs collected 8,000 illegal signs in June. Next stop: Trash Academy
Mural Arts is partnering with the city's Zero Waste and Litter Cabinet to repurpose the signs — many of which can't be recycled — into something useful for the communities where they were posted.
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Sep. 22, 2017 11:15 am
Dear Akeem and Keep Philly Beautiful teamed up to answer your litter Qs
Here's their advice for finding community cleaning resources, needle collection and more.
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Aug. 7, 2017 10:44 am
Check out the city’s ‘action plan’ to tackle waste and litter
Here's what Philly's doing to reduce the nearly 1.5 million tons of residential and commercial waste it produces each year.
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Jan. 10, 2017 4:25 pm
Baltimore’s mayor might be crushing on Philly’s newest anti-litter startup
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh was briefed on Not In Philly, Dave Brindley and Yury Korzun's anti-litter project.
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Dec. 23, 2016 10:44 am
This website is helping people keep their neighborhoods clean
Not in Philly is a website that helps organize clean-up crews.
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May 24, 2016 3:31 pm
Two Wharton social entrepreneurs just got a Fast Company nod
Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao developed a kind of bacteria that can eat plastic waste and are winning all kinds of awards for it.
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Mar. 25, 2016 12:43 pm
Keep Philly Beautiful wants to bring national best practices to local neighborhoods
The nonprofit will look to expand its education efforts and rally neighborhoods in 2016.
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Mar. 17, 2016 11:20 am
Yikes. Northwest Philly is looking a little … dumpy
The area is brimming with illegal dump sites, according to local trash tracker Kelly O'Day.
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Dec. 22, 2015 8:00 am
This public-private coalition is trying a new approach to litter control on 52nd street
Three words: artisan trash cans.
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Feb. 2, 2015 11:55 am
Overcoming Setbacks, United By Blue Pushes Environmental Agenda in Philly
On December 16, United By Blue’s Retail Director Jen Singley and one of her co-workers stepped into Public Storage, a storage facility on Columbus Boulevard. They had loaded a storage space with a few hundred organic leather and canvas bags ready to ship for the holidays. UBB usually stores the bulk of its inventory at […]