Keep Fort Worth Beautiful News & Events - August Edition





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Upcoming Events

Join our next special event litter cleanup in the Echo Heights neighborhood!

*Saturday, September 9*

*8 a.m. - 12 p.m.*

"Echo Heights Special Event Litter Cleanup"

Prairie Dog Park
5060 Parker Henderson Rd., Fort Worth, 76119

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Save the date for the 2023 Neighborhood Litter Stomp.

*SAVE THE DATE!*

*Saturday, October 14*

*8 a.m. - 11 a.m.*

"Neighborhood Litter Stomp"

Citywide volunteer cleanup

Registration opens Sep. 1.




Mark your calendars for Neighborhood Litter Stomp!

Save the date for the Neighborhood Litter Stomp!

We are so excited for this year?s *Neighborhood Litter Stomp on Saturday, October 14, 2023!?**Registration opens September 1. *Come as a?group or participate individually, but?make plans to attend.

Neighborhood Litter Stomp is a citywide volunteer litter cleanup hosted by Keep Fort Worth Beautiful (KFWB) each fall. The focus of the event is to encourage residents to come together and host a cleanup event in their neighborhood. It?allows hundreds of volunteers to combine efforts in one day and clean all across our city!

If your neighborhood is looking good and is free from litter and trash, sign up to clean up a local park, school, or waterway. It is easy to participate, and KFWB provides all the supplies for free!

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School Green Teams are starting!

School Green Teams compete for an award at the end of the academic year.

School Green Teams registration for the 2023-24 academic year is open for all students across Fort Worth who are excited to make a positive, environmental difference.

School Green Teams work to complete activities in the areas of litter, beautification, waste, recycling, environment, and sustainability. These tasks are flexible and can be worked into classroom time or an after-school program. Each activity a team completes earns points toward the School Green Team of the Year Award competition. Winners receive "green packs" for students, a tree planting at their school,?and recognition in KFWB's newsletter and social media channels!

Last year, School Green Teams students completed several exciting activities, including a Recycled Arts Showcase, and an experiment where they dropped an egg from a high spot - in this case, the claw of a litter abatement truck - and tried to keep the egg intact by wrapping it in recycled materials.

Your team can be part of that learning fun too! There is no cost to participate, and any school team is welcome - public,?private, or?homeschooled. Learn more about the program or register here! [ [link removed] ]

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Litter cleanup spotlight

Thank you to everyone who participated in the August litter cleanups!

Shout out to everyone who participated in our recent litter cleanups: the District 6 Litter Day and the Meadowbrook Special Event Litter Cleanup.

In total, *40 volunteers and City employees*?respectively cleaned up the area around the Chisholm Trail Community Center, and the Meadowbrook neighborhood streets and parks. They removed a *total of 11,675* *pounds of litter* in just one day. Your contributions do make a difference!

A special thank you to Councilmember Jared Williams, Ph.D.,?District 6, who consistently hosts Litter Day events, and Councilmember Jeanette Martinez, District 11, for?joining the Meadowbrook cleanup efforts. We are thankful to have City leadership that not only supports our efforts but also takes action to reach our goal of a clean, safe city.

If you have not attended a cleanup event yet, be a part of the change! Join us next month on Saturday, September 9, for the cleanup in the Echo Heights neighborhood [ [link removed] ].

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Turn out lights at night during the fall migration to help protect the migratory birds that fly over Texas annually.
Lights out, Fort Worth!

Fall migration is starting! Bright lights confuse and harm migrating birds, especially during their critical travel period, Sep. 5 - Oct. 29, when birds travel most. Join the City of?Fort Worth and several other DFW cities' collaborative efforts to reduce migratory bird mortality. Turn off your non-essential lights between 11 p.m. - 6 a.m. daily to help protect the billions of migratory birds that fly over Texas annually.??Click here to learn more, for tips, and resources [ [link removed] ]!







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Many gallons of water go into into the manufacturing and use of some every-day items necessary for school.
Be water-wise and get an A+ this fall!

Fort Worth residents may be surprised to learn just how much water goes into the manufacturing and use of some everyday essentials for school:

1) T-Shirt: The cotton used to produce one basic t-shirt can consume over 700 gallons of water.

2) Blue jeans: Fashionable and tough, but more wasteful than you know. A pair of blue jeans can consume just under 2,000 gallons of water to produce [ [link removed] ]. Consider durable brands that can be re-worn without stuffing your closet full of new pairs of blue jeans each season.

3) A cup of coffee: Over 35 gallons of water are used to produce [ [link removed] ], harvest, and roast the beans needed to create enough grounds for just one cup of coffee.

4) Handheld Smart devices: A study estimates that smartphones actually take over 3,000 gallons of water to produce [ [link removed] ]. Who would have thought that something so sensitive to water could consume so much to make?

Save water! Buy durable brands, reuse, and reduce consumption.












The Squeaky Clean Kids group has adopted a street and kept it clean.

Adopt-A-Spot Update

We would like to highlight the work that our residents are doing through our Adopt-A-Spot Program to keep Fort Worth beautiful! Since the beginning of this year,?*27*?new adoptions were made and volunteers have removed a total of *7,078 pounds of litter*. Adopt-A-Spot agreements last for two years, focusing on litter pickups and even maintaining landscaping and infrastructure. Click here to learn more or join today! [ [link removed] ]




The Residential Food Waste Composting Program has helped divert over half a million pounds of food scraps from the landfill.

Composting Corner

Join other Fort Worth households in the fight against food waste.?*Sign up for our Residential Food Waste Composting Program [ [link removed] ] today*!?From table scraps and leftovers to moldy bread, produce or dairy, coffee grounds and filters, tea bags, egg shells, or even cooked meats and bones, we accept it all.

During July, this program helped to keep 12,347 pounds of food waste from going to the landfill and 32 new households joined.

*A 20th food scrap collection site in east Fort Worth (76104) has just been added* to the ones already conveniently located throughout the city, and there is bound to be one near you too! Visit our website [ [link removed] ] to find out where they are and to learn how the program works.






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