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Community Support Needed for Keep Sidney Beautiful Operations
Keep Sidney Beautiful (KSB) has proudly served our community by providing free and accessible programs that improve the cleanliness, sustainability, and pride of Sidney. Unfortunately, we did not receive our operating grant this year, which puts the continuation of these programs at risk. We are reaching out to our community for support to help keep…
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A Cleaner and Greener Future 2025
With great grant writing effort from our President Sandra Buckner, Keep Sidney Beautiful was awarded two grants from the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy for 2025. These grants are vital to implementing more recycling/clean up programs, education, and beautification projects. In 2025 KSB will strive to bring its community more recycling opportunities along with…
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Open Mic Night
Part of Keep Sidney Beautiful’s mission is to beautify our community. A great way to do that is by bringing the community together through Open Mic Night. Each month since November 2023, Keep Sidney Beautiful has worked diligently to bring in talented individuals to show off. Slowly but surely, Open Mic Night is gaining more…
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Ocean of Plastic
Written By Michelle Haun Trash island is a name thrown around by quite a few. What can be misleading about this name is that many think there are literal islands of trash that can be seen by anyone looking. Although this is inaccurate, it doesn’t take away the very real and deep impact this trash…
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Keep Sidney Beautiful Mission
Keep Sidney Beautiful works to reduce litter, recycle, and beautify our community. Through each one of these components we strive to work hard to make our community a better place. Each one of these missions is achieved through hard work, volunteering, and community involvement. Education is significant to spreading awareness. Unfortunately, some people don’t fully…
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Recycling in Nebraska
Employment Opportunity Keep Sidney Beautiful · In September, 2023 we had the opportunity to attend the Keep Nebraska Beautiful Annual Conference in Kearney, NE. The conference was very informative and helped us become more aware. According to the Keep America Beautiful 2020 litter study, cigarette butts are the #1 littered item and 50 billion pieces…
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The Impact We Have
A history of Litter: Since the 1950s we have produced around 9 billion tons of disposable plastics, and it was in the mid-1950’s that people began to notice the litter start to increase. We had begun to notice the bits of trash accumulating on streets, road ways, and business areas slowly over time.. In fact…
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Plastics Recycling in Sidney
Use the sliders on the images to the left (to the left..) to learn more about what can be recycled here in Sidney now that we are able to expand the recycling options! In order to make this program successful, we need citizens using the recycling bins, to help as much as possible by only…
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An Intro to Solid Waste Characterization Data
Below you will find links to the sources, and an introduction to the data that Keep Sidney Beautiful relies on when it comes to supporting and planning for our recycling system. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been collecting data on material generation and disposal for over 35 years, and has records of waste management…