Keep America Beautiful is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to engage individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community environments. KAB pursues this mission by focusing on three areas:

Waste Reduction and Recycling: Reducing the impact of solid waste in our communities through integrated programs including responsible consumerism, source reduction and reuse, recycling and education about landfills, composting and waste-to-energy.

Litter Prevention: Defining litter, identifying the causes, and reducing it by organizing cleanups, and promoting proper handling of discarded waste in our communities.

Beautification and Community Greening: Improving the visual aspects of our communities through programs that beautify and naturally clean our environment including community gardens, restoring vacant lots, highway and shoreline beautification, urban forests, native and wildflower plantings, and graffiti prevention and abatement.

Through a grassroots network of over 1,200 local affiliates and participating organizations, KAB strives to improve communities by providing educational resources, and encouraging individual responsibility and volunteer action. For more information about Keep America Beautiful, visit: http://www.kab.org

The CURC webinar series is made possible through the generous support of Alcoa.

Aluminum is infinitely recyclable, and the aluminum can is the only package that can be used, recycled, and back on store shelves in as few as 60 days. What’s more, there is no limit to the number of times a can may be recycled into a new can.  Alcoa and the aluminum industry have a goal to increase can recycling rates in America to 75% by 2015. To hit this goal, Alcoa and the Alcoa Foundation have distributed more than 75,000 recycling bins, launched our Make an Impact calculator to help families live more sustainably, created the Aluminate™ recycling app and, in the last five years, invested nearly $3.5 million in community recycling programs across the country! If every American recycled just one more can per week, we would reach our goal! Join us in this important effort, download the app, and recycle!

Together, we CAN make a difference! Visit www.alcoarecycling.com.