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The Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission (KAB) has announced that it has elected Mark Simpson as chair and Jeremy Sparks as vice-chair on its 2021 board of commissioners. Simpson and Sparks follow a long line of dedicated chairs. The immediate past cha [...]

The Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission (KAB) announced end-of-year results for its two annual cleanup campaigns. In 2020, 4,157 Arkansans volunteered to improve their communities by removing 153,314 pounds of litter during 212 cleanup events. KAB [...]

The Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission (KAB) is still recruiting Arkansans for its annual Great Arkansas Cleanup (GAC) event, which ends on October 31. KAB is challenging all counties in Arkansas to register a cleanup event this year. Currently, nea [...]

The Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission (KAB) is searching for Arkansans to register for its annual Great Arkansas Cleanup (GAC) event that will take place from September 1 through October 31. KAB also announced its goal to recruit 10,000 volunteers f [...]

“We are excited for the new appointments of Dr. Carroll and Ms. Swindell to the KAB Commission as their vast experience in education and emergency management will aid us in furthering KAB mission and work,” said Mark Camp, executive director of K [...]

We are looking forward to the Great Arkansas Cleanup this fall! The Great Arkansas Cleanup will still be held throughout the months of September and October in 2020. For those of you who had to cancel your Great American Cleanup this Spring, we encou [...]

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it’s nearly impossible to distinguis [...]

Did You Know? Litter in Arkansas ALWAYS ends up in our waterways and the Arkansas River. The City of Little Rock Sustainability Office, with the help of Keep Arkansas Beautiful’s Otto the Otter, talk about how litter impacts and contaminates our [...]

It takes more than soil, water, and sunshine to make the world green. At least 30% of the world’s crops and 90% of all plants require cross-pollination to spread and thrive, and here in Canada, bees are our most important pollinators. Unfortunatel [...]

Spices have been giving our lives pizazz for millennia: Ancient Egyptians used cinnamon to embalm bodies, Mesopotamians cultivated cardamom and garlic in their gardens, Dutch colonists hoarded cloves and nutmeg from Southeast Asia, and Ina Garten tau [...]

It won’t come as a surprise to you that plastics are terrible for the ocean environment. According to the UN Environment, between 60% and 80% of the trash in the ocean is plastic and it’s affecting over 800 marine species. There’s a lot of talk [...]

Brought to you by Otto the Otter, the Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission and our friends at the Little Rock Zoo. Did You Know? 1. The KAB mascot, Otto, is a North American River Otter! We may be biased but we think otters are the absolute best! [...]