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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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Honoring and Celebrating the Life of Louisiana First Lady Alice C. Foster

Surrounded by her loved ones, Louisiana First Lady Alice C. Foster passed away on Thursday, March 6, 2025. She is remembered for her dedicated service to the State of Louisiana ...

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Greener Ground Spotlight: Grounds Krewe and Recycle Dat!

Keep Louisiana Beautiful is proud to give Grounds Krewe a Greener Grounds Grant to support their involvement in Recycle Dat!, a project of the City of New Orleans and New ...

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KLB University Affiliates Clean Up Lafitte Greenway Before Super Bowl

Keep Louisiana Beautiful’s (KLB) five New Orleans-based University Affiliates gathered to care for their city ahead of Super Bowl LIX at the Clean Up & Green Up event on Saturday, ...

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