Great American Cleanup sweeps through nation's public areas.The state of Mississippi hosted Keep America Beautiful Keep America Beautiful is an environmental organization founded in 1953. It is the largest community improvement organization in the United States, with over 560 affiliate organizations (similar to local chapters) and more than 15,000 participating communities in their signature for the kickoff of 2006's The Great American Cleanup, which is in its 21st year. The March 2 kickoff event took place on the Biloxi Town Green to spark interest to help improve the city of Biloxi, which was devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. by Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. . The primary objective of the local work was to clean and replant re·plantv. To reattach an organ, limb, or other body part surgically to the original site. n. An organ, limb, or body part that has been replanted. in order to achieve some coastal restoration. Nationally, the effort was estimated to involve 2.5 million people, who volunteered 8 million hours to clean, beautify and improve 15,000 communities with about 30,000 events in every state. Activities included beautifying park and recreation areas, cleaning seashores and waterways The list of waterways is a link page for any river, canal, estuary or firth. International waterways
President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush served as honorary chairs of the event. For more information on Keep America Beautiful's The Great American Cleanup, visit www.kab.org. |
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