Love Your Mother Earth This Weekend with Keep Paulding Beautiful

It's Mother's Day weekend, so don't forget to celebrate Mom and plan to celebrate Mother Earth on Saturday with Keep Paulding Beautiful!  KPB will conduct their annual Great American Cleanup Event in Paulding County on Saturday, starting at 8:30 am at Mt. Tabor Park and  you can be a part of this annual community improvement event.  

Did you know that litter has a cost to you and to all of us?  Many people think that the county can just send out a work detail of prisoners to cleanup our roadways and public spaces, but even that has a cost to taxpayers:  A deputy must supervise all crews, a vehicle must transport them so there are very real costs associated with prisoner or community service crews.   Additionally, if litter doesn't get cleaned up from our roadways, it often ends up in local streams and waterways and can cause additional costs to our water treatment plants by making it more difficult and expensive to clean up our drinking water supply.  

So what can we do?  Teach our children by example that it is wrong to be a litterbug.  Don't litter Paulding County roadways.  Recognize that even a small items, including cigarette butts are litter and don't contribute to the problem. Find a trash receptacle to dispose of trash.  Recycle items that are marked for recycling, reuse items that are meant for multiple uses and compost items that are biodegradable.  

Most importantly, join Keep Paulding Beautiful in trying to combat the litter issue in Paulding County by participating in this weekend's Great American Cleanup-Love your Mother Earth. You can participate as an individual, a family, or even a large group!  To participate, sign up online.  All participants must sign a release of liability form.  Children under 18 years of age must have a release of liability form signed by a parent or guardian in order to participate and children under the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult.  Meet at Mt. Tabor Park at 8:30 am for instructions and supplies.  With just few hours of time on the part of a group of thoughtful, committed Paulding County Citizens, we can make a difference in our community!