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Library Spotlight: Evangeline Parish Library Trades Trash for Seeds During Love the Boot Week

This year’s Love the Boot Week saw nearly 27,000 volunteers across all 64 parishes roll up their sleeves to clean up Louisiana at 1,408 events statewide. Among the many organizations ...

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Louisiana Schools Love the Boot!

Every year in April, hundreds of organizations and thousands of volunteers across Louisiana participate in Keep Louisiana Beautiful’s Love the Boot Week, a 9-day effort to clean up and beautify ...

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16,503 Bottles and Cans Diverted From The Landfill During Love the Boot Week

During Love the Boot Week, April 5-13, 2025, Coca-Cola partnered with Keep Louisiana Beautiful (KLB) to spearhead the recycling of plastic bottles and aluminum cans collected at litter cleanup events ...

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Keep Louisiana Beautiful University Affiliates Celebrate Bees on World Bee Day and Year-Round

World Bee Day is on May 20, and in celebration, Keep Louisiana Beautiful (KLB) is highlighting the efforts of three KLB University Affiliates doing their part to protect bees and ...

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Congratulations to the 2025 Love the Boot Award Winners

The Love the Boot Awards recognize outstanding accomplishments during Love the Boot Week. Groups from different categories are honored based off criteria including amount of litter removed, beautification efforts, and volunteer ...

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Louisiana Blue Champions Community Health During Love the Boot Week

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana (Louisiana Blue) partnered with Keep Louisiana Beautiful (KLB) for the fourth annual Love the Boot Week, held April 5–13, 2025, to highlight the ...

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Happy Earth Day! Let’s Love the Boot!

Happy Earth Day from Keep Louisiana Beautiful! We want to say thank you to everyone who participated in Love the Boot Week earlier this month. There were 1,120 litter cleanup ...

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Q and A with Calcasieu’s TrashFormer

We love seeing our Community Affiliates develop fun mascots to help teach youth about the importance of preventing litter and caring for the environment. To combat litter and promote environmental ...

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University Affiliate Spotlight: Louisiana Tech University Waste Audit

Louisiana Tech University will be joining the Keep Louisiana Beautiful University Affiliate network this May. One requirement to become a University Affiliate is to perform a campus waste audit to ...

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West Monroe Introduces New Recycling Trailer

When the West Monroe Recycling Center completed its new expanded facility in February of this year, the site moved further from the downtown area. To ensure that citizens and businesses ...

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