Shreveport Green
Shreveport Green is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the city's environment and enhancing its economy through public education and community beautification, litter abatement, and recycling projects.
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Our vision for Shreveport
is a clean, green, physically enhanced community whose citizens exhibit a strong sense of pride and concern about the environment. We maintain that an attractive city promotes respect and economic development.
Shreveport Green Highlights
- Sixteen National Awards for excellence in programming!
- One-hundred eighty beautification projects, including planting over 110,000 trees!
- Reduced litter as measured by the Litter Index Score of 1.2!
- Cost Benefit to the City of Shreveport-$7.09 for every $1.00!
- One of the top telephone book recycling programs in the South! 175 tons!
- Tree City USA status maintained every year since 1991! Growth Award since 1998!
- Rewrote Shreveport Tree Ordinance in 1995!
- Total volunteer hours for 2006-42,842!
- ShrevCORPS has completed 231 community projects since 1994!
- Annual Great American Cleanup enlisted 8,111 volunteers in 2006!
- Neighborhood Program includes 27 neighborhoods!
- National Tree Trust Branching Out Award in 2000!
Coming Fall of 2008!!
A new addition is being added to the city of Shreveport! Pratt Industries, the world's largest paper and packaging company, has begun preparations to occupy 85 acres at the Port of Shreveport-Bossier. It is because of this that Shreveport can finally look forward to curbside recycling!
The city will pay a fee of around $3 million for the 66,000 recycling bins that residents and businesses will receive to collect their recyclables, such as milk jugs, newspapers, and soda cartons. The bins can then be set out on regular trash days while employees of Pratt Industries will sort the recyclables and take them to their paper mill, where they will either be converted into paper or sent out to be recycled.
For now, Shreveport residents won't expect to pay anything for this new service, but in 2011 the city will begin charging a monthly fee of $2.50. This is an easy price to pay for the massive amount of trash that will be saved from our growing landfill, and the positive impact we will have on the environment! » more...
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