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Keep Murray Beautiful
Keep Chatsworth Murray Beautiful
Located in the heart of beautiful downtown Chatsworth, Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful (KCMB), is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the beautification and preservation of the natural beauty in Murray County. Founded, organized and managed by Frank Adams, formerly of Keep Smyrna Beautiful in Atlanta and a native of Chatsworth, Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful is going on its third year of operation.
From its inception, KCMB has rapidly and steadily increased the number of both volunteers and visitors preventing litter, contributing to the beautification of our community and reducing waste.
302 E Market Street - Chatsworth GA 30705 - 706.517.0222
recycle4georgia@yahoo.com
Located at the corner of Market Street and 1st Avenue
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday through Thursday - 8am to 4pm
Saturday - 8am to 12pm
Sunday and Monday - Closed
What is Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful?
Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful (KCMB) is a group of dedicated individuals with a personal commitment to choices and actions that preserve natural beauty, protect the environment, prevent blight, improve public lands and make our community a better, safer place to live. As an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful (KAB), we embrace litter prevention, waste reduction and community beautification through diverse programs, as well as educational initiatives. KCMB engages individuals and groups in a number of ways:
To engage individuals to take greater responsibility and pride in their community while becoming stewards of the environment.
Our Focus
Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful strives to change behaviors and improve the community through:
Litter Prevention: Defining litter, identifying the cause, reducing it, organizing clean-ups and properly handling discarded waste in our community.
Waste Reduction: Reducing the impact of solid waste in our communities through integrated programs including source reduction and reuse, recycling and education about landfills, composting and waste-to-energy.
Beautification: Improving the visual aspects of our community through programs that beautify and naturally clean our environment including community gardens, restoring vacant lots, highway beautification and graffiti prevention.
Our Guiding Principles
As a leader in community improvement, KCMB is guided by these principles:
Education: This is the key to encouraging positive behaviors toward community improvement.
Individual Responsibility: Improving communities, their environment and quality of life all begins with personal responsibility - individuals becoming more engaged as citizens and stewards of the environment.
Public-Private Partnerships: Broad-based community alliances are essential to achieve sustainable community improvement.
Volunteer Action: By engaging volunteers we extend the reach of our education and multiply the impact of our actions.
How You Can Help
There are a variety of ways that you can help!
Join our great team of people who care! Become a member of Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful.
Students and Seniors - $5
Individuals and Non-profits - $20
Family - $30
Business - $50
Sponsors - $100
Sustaining - $200
Patron - $500
Benefactor - $1,000
Or, become a volunteer!
Please complete the attached "Join our Great Team" document by clicking on the above link Keep Murray Beautiful and return to:
Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful
302 E Market Street
Chatsworth, GA 30705
Thank you for your support!
Membership and Volunteerism Matter
Aside from the obvious intangible benefits to your involvement, such as the beautification and cleanliness of your community, other benefits include the following:
What We Do Recycle
Electronics • Corrugated cardboard
Fax machines • Chip board (cereal boxes)
Copiers • Catalogues
Printers • Manuals
Monitors (computer) Other
Telephones
Cell phones
Plastic (PET or PETE pm and HOPE KL1PB)
Microwave ovens • Aluminum cans
Radios • Glass bottles and jars (only)
VCRs • Bi-metal cans (tin)
OVO players • Anything made of metal
Tape players • School supplies (binders, paper, etc.)
Computers • Printer cartridges and toners
Paper • Used motor oil
Books (hardback and paperback) • Clean Styrofoam peanuts
Magazines • Campbell soup & product labels
Newspaper • Batteries of any type
Telephone books • Eye glasses
Office paper • Box Tops for Education
Shredded paper • Eye glasses and lenses
School paper • Cell phones
Cardboard • Television sets ($15 charge)
What We Do NOT Recycle
Vinyl
siding
Vases, glass or ceramic
Drinking glasses
Pyrex dishes
Ash trays
Florescent bulbs or light bulbs
Used filters
Feed bags with plastic liners
Plastic bags
Plastic sheeting
Plastic containers (other than PET or HOPE)
Used paper products (Kleenex, napkins,
paper towels, etc.)
Used diapers
Food waste or food contaminated products
Shower curtains
Window blinds
Window glass
Cigarette butts and ashes
Trash cans
Luggage
Baby car seats
Plastic kid toys
Garden equipment
Miscellaneous plastic products
Styrofoam (other than clean peanuts)
Yogurt cups
Syrup bottles (plastic)
About our Founder
Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful was founded by Frank Adams of Chatsworth, Georgia. Originally from Chatsworth and one of eleven brothers and sisters, Frank attended Chatsworth Elementary and Murray County High School where he played football and basketball as well as being the president of his Senior class. He attended Lincoln Memorial University where he met his wife, Peg. Frank and Peg have been married now for 50+ years and have five children, eleven grandchildren and three great grandsons. Frank also attended Kennesaw State University where he was a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.
KCMB Staff
Tamar Duck Adams/Executive Director
Located in the heart of beautiful downtown Chatsworth, Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful (KCMB), is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the beautification and preservation of the natural beauty in Murray County. Founded, organized and managed by Frank Adams, formerly of Keep Smyrna Beautiful in Atlanta and a native of Chatsworth, Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful is going on its third year of operation.
From its inception, KCMB has rapidly and steadily increased the number of both volunteers and visitors preventing litter, contributing to the beautification of our community and reducing waste.
302 E Market Street - Chatsworth GA 30705 - 706.517.0222
recycle4georgia@yahoo.com
Located at the corner of Market Street and 1st Avenue
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday through Thursday - 8am to 4pm
Saturday - 8am to 12pm
Sunday and Monday - Closed
What is Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful?
Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful (KCMB) is a group of dedicated individuals with a personal commitment to choices and actions that preserve natural beauty, protect the environment, prevent blight, improve public lands and make our community a better, safer place to live. As an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful (KAB), we embrace litter prevention, waste reduction and community beautification through diverse programs, as well as educational initiatives. KCMB engages individuals and groups in a number of ways:
- The KCMB Board consists of 17 dedicated volunteers who work energetically to make things happen in our community.
- Over 80 miles of county and state roads are picked up of litter each quarter by over 70 volunteer groups of citizens.
- Volunteers read to our local elementary school students.
- Murray County is the only county in the state to have recycling programs in place in all public schools.
- KCMB is involved annually in "Bring One in for the Chipper" (Christmas tree recycling), Hands on Georgia, Conasauga River Clean Up, Annual Great American Clean Up and Ecumenical Earth Day.
To engage individuals to take greater responsibility and pride in their community while becoming stewards of the environment.
Our Focus
Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful strives to change behaviors and improve the community through:
Litter Prevention: Defining litter, identifying the cause, reducing it, organizing clean-ups and properly handling discarded waste in our community.
Waste Reduction: Reducing the impact of solid waste in our communities through integrated programs including source reduction and reuse, recycling and education about landfills, composting and waste-to-energy.
Beautification: Improving the visual aspects of our community through programs that beautify and naturally clean our environment including community gardens, restoring vacant lots, highway beautification and graffiti prevention.
Our Guiding Principles
As a leader in community improvement, KCMB is guided by these principles:
Education: This is the key to encouraging positive behaviors toward community improvement.
Individual Responsibility: Improving communities, their environment and quality of life all begins with personal responsibility - individuals becoming more engaged as citizens and stewards of the environment.
Public-Private Partnerships: Broad-based community alliances are essential to achieve sustainable community improvement.
Volunteer Action: By engaging volunteers we extend the reach of our education and multiply the impact of our actions.
How You Can Help
There are a variety of ways that you can help!
Join our great team of people who care! Become a member of Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful.
Students and Seniors - $5
Individuals and Non-profits - $20
Family - $30
Business - $50
Sponsors - $100
Sustaining - $200
Patron - $500
Benefactor - $1,000
Or, become a volunteer!
Please complete the attached "Join our Great Team" document by clicking on the above link Keep Murray Beautiful and return to:
Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful
302 E Market Street
Chatsworth, GA 30705
Thank you for your support!
Membership and Volunteerism Matter
Aside from the obvious intangible benefits to your involvement, such as the beautification and cleanliness of your community, other benefits include the following:
- Official Member and/or Volunteer KCMB sticke
- Complimentary Recycling book
- Monthly Newsletters
- Public recognition in KCMB publications
What We Do Recycle
Electronics • Corrugated cardboard
Fax machines • Chip board (cereal boxes)
Copiers • Catalogues
Printers • Manuals
Monitors (computer) Other
Telephones
Cell phones
Plastic (PET or PETE pm and HOPE KL1PB)
Microwave ovens • Aluminum cans
Radios • Glass bottles and jars (only)
VCRs • Bi-metal cans (tin)
OVO players • Anything made of metal
Tape players • School supplies (binders, paper, etc.)
Computers • Printer cartridges and toners
Paper • Used motor oil
Books (hardback and paperback) • Clean Styrofoam peanuts
Magazines • Campbell soup & product labels
Newspaper • Batteries of any type
Telephone books • Eye glasses
Office paper • Box Tops for Education
Shredded paper • Eye glasses and lenses
School paper • Cell phones
Cardboard • Television sets ($15 charge)
What We Do NOT Recycle
Vinyl
siding
Vases, glass or ceramic
Drinking glasses
Pyrex dishes
Ash trays
Florescent bulbs or light bulbs
Used filters
Feed bags with plastic liners
Plastic bags
Plastic sheeting
Plastic containers (other than PET or HOPE)
Used paper products (Kleenex, napkins,
paper towels, etc.)
Used diapers
Food waste or food contaminated products
Shower curtains
Window blinds
Window glass
Cigarette butts and ashes
Trash cans
Luggage
Baby car seats
Plastic kid toys
Garden equipment
Miscellaneous plastic products
Styrofoam (other than clean peanuts)
Yogurt cups
Syrup bottles (plastic)
About our Founder
Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful was founded by Frank Adams of Chatsworth, Georgia. Originally from Chatsworth and one of eleven brothers and sisters, Frank attended Chatsworth Elementary and Murray County High School where he played football and basketball as well as being the president of his Senior class. He attended Lincoln Memorial University where he met his wife, Peg. Frank and Peg have been married now for 50+ years and have five children, eleven grandchildren and three great grandsons. Frank also attended Kennesaw State University where he was a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.
KCMB Staff
Tamar Duck Adams/Executive Director