Projects

An Affiliate of Keep America Beautiful
A Cooperative program of the City of Kingsport and the
Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce
Projects
 Great American Cleanup (March,
April, May)
 Greenbelt Cleanup
 Downtown Kingsport
Cleanup
 Free Gardening Seminars
 Arbor Day Celebration
 Tennessee Environmental
Conference
 Regional Hazardous Waste
Collection
 Environmental Week in
Kingsport Schools
 Beautification Awards
 Fun Fest
 Trash Barrel Paint-In
 Trashbusters
 Tree Fund
 Conservation Camp for Fourth
Graders
 “Saturday in the Gardens”
Garden Tour
 Kingsport Notable Trees
 I Recycle Kingsport – America
 Recycles Day Event
 Santa Train
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Award Winning
 Winner of 2015 Tennessee Department of
Transportation and Keep Tennessee Beautiful Award
of Excellence
 Winner of 2014 First Place National Affiliate Award
from Keep America Beautiful
 Winner of 2014 Keep America Beautiful Innovation
Award in Recycling/Waste Reduction for Mobile
Education on the Go Classroom
 Winner of 2012 Second Place National Affiliate Award
from KAB
 Winner of 2011 Distinguished Service Award
from KAB
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Arbor Day
Sponsored by
BEAUTIFICATION AWARDS
-Since 1984
Sponsored by:
Boehm Landscape, Inc
May – September
Residential, Church, Business and
Redevelopment
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BEAUTIFICATION AWARDS continued
Tree Fund
-Since 1986
Sponsored by
Hamlett - Dobson Funeral Homes
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Cleanups…
Downtown Kingsport
Cleanup
Sponsored by
Greenbelt Cleanup
Domtar
Sponsored by
Eastman Credit Union
&
Indian Path
Household Hazardous
Waste Collection
Medical Center
…and more Cleanups
Downtown
Riverview
Greenbelt
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Santa Train
Education
Environmental Education
On The Go
Mobile Classroom
Mother Earth, Recycle King, &
Kleanaroo
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Founders of Trashbusters
Larry & Susan Newman at parade
TRASHBUSTERS
– since 1991
Sponsored by
Fun Fest
TheTaste
Trashbarrel
Paint-In
Since 1985
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Conservation
Camp for 4th Graders
-Since 2003
Sponsored by:
Republic Services
Carousel Park
Lowe’s Community
Improvement Grant
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Fundraisers
Saturday in the Gardens Tour
Green & Growing
Garden Show and Sale
Clean Team Membership
Photographed
by Earl Carter
Cigarette Litter
Prevention Signs
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For Every Dollar of Community Support
Received in 2013, KKB Returned $70
Worth of Benefits.
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KKB Volunteers Donated One Million
Dollars Worth of Volunteer Hours and
Services to the community.
Keep Kingsport Beautiful
was formed in 1980,
and is celebrating 35 years this year!!
The program has won over 65 National, State and
other Environmental Awards
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12/11/2015
KINGSPORT RECYCLES
CITY OF KINGSPORT RECYCLING PROGRAM
Provides curbside recycling for city residents.
 The City of Kingsport and Sullivan County
partner to provide four locations for recycling.
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 Brookside
Drive (Landfill)
 Fort Henry Drive (Civic Auditorium)
 Industry Drive (Public Works)
 Lake Crest (Ingles)
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SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING
City of Kingsport started single stream recycling
January 1, 2012
 Single stream makes it easier for collection; all
materials are collected together
 It allows the city to collect more items
 It will allow us to collect recycling with
automated trucks and 96 gallon carts.
 This process will make it more cost effective to
recycle more material.
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ACCEPTABLE RECYCLABLE ITEMS
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Cardboard (must be flattened and cut in two feet squares)
Chipboard/grey cardboard
Office paper
Newspaper
Phonebooks
Magazines
Junk mail
Aluminum cans
Tin cans
Glass (clear, brown, blue, and green)
Plastics (numbers 1-7)
Used motor oil
Clean and remove all lids from items to be recycled for safety reasons
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ITEMS THAT CANNOT BE COLLECTED CURBSIDE
Plastic containers that have had petroleum in
them
 Plastic bags
 Styrofoam
 Tempered glass
 Plated glass
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SINGLE STREAM TRANSFER TRAILER
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ITEMS THAT ARE RECYCLED AT THE CITY OF
KINGSPORT LANDFILL AND SULLIVAN COUNTY
TRANSFER STATION
 Electronic items
 Paint
 Tires
 Appliances
 Brush
 Leaf compost
 Used motor oil
ELECTRONIC
Electronics are placed in Gaylord boxes at the Sullivan county transfer station and
then picked up for recycling.
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PAINT
Place paint in cargo containers at Sullivan county transfer
station.
TIRES
The tires that are collected by the landfill are recycled at
the Washington County tire center.
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APPLIANCES
The appliances that are collected are recycled by the City
of Kingsport through a metal company three to four times
a year.
BRUSH
All the brush and wood that is collected is ground and recycled as boiler
fuel at Domtar Paper Company.
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LEAF COMPOST
All the leaves that are collected by the City of Kingsport are
collected and turned into leaf compost for city landscaping
projects and to cover the landfill.
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RECYCLING FACTS
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Every Sunday 500,000 trees are used to produce newspapers in the U.S.;
only 12% are recycled.
Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial
air fleet every 3 months.
In one year Americans throw away 1.6 billion ball point pens, 2 billion
razors, and 16 billion diapers.
An average American generates 3.5 pounds of trash daily.
Last year Americans spent 8 billion dollars to bury their trash.
In one day Americans produce enough trash to fill the New Orleans
Superdome twice.
Americans represent only 5% of the world population, but produce over 50%
of the world’s trash.
Each time an aluminum can is recycled enough energy is saved to power a
television for 3 hours.
RECYCLING FACTS (CONT)
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$1 for every $10 we spend on food pays for packaging.
Life expectancy of litter: styrofoam cup 10-20 years; plastic 50-60
years; cigarette filters 15 years; aluminum 100-500 years; glass
never.
90% of office waste by weight is paper.
50% of landfill space is taken up by paper.
Each ton of paper recycled saves 17 trees.
Yard wastes make up about 18% of landfill space.
Each year Americans throw away enough steel to reconstruct
Manhattan.
Americans produce 150 million tons of solid waste annually or 3.5
pounds per person per day and only approximately 10% of that is
recycled.
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THE THREE R’S
The City of Kingsport follows the arrows trying to make
Kingsport a better place by using the three R’s: recycle,
reuse, and reduce.
KEEPING KINGSPORT BEAUTIFUL
It takes all people working together in efforts to minimize
solid waste so that we make as small a footprint on the
earth as possible in order to keep Kingsport beautiful for
all generations to come.
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