PHI THETA KAPPA International Honor Society of the Two Year College

Top 25 Ways to Improve Our Communities

  • Enroll as a Chapter of Service at www.ptk.org/service/cos.htm. All Chapters of Service are listed at www.ptk.org/service/progress.
  • Contact your local Keep America Beautiful affiliate. Visit www.kab.org to find the nearest office.
  • Invite a local Keep America Beautiful affiliate representative to speak at your chapter and/or regional meeting.
  • Volunteer your time at a local Keep America Beautiful affiliate office.
  • Organize a litter-free event at a campus or community function.
  • Carry a litterbag in your car.
  • Organize a paint-up, fix-up or clean-up of an elderly or disabled person’s home.
  • Organize a Clothes Collection on campus and donate clothes to a local Goodwill or other appropriate organization.
  • Encourage the campus restaurant or cafeteria to recycle.
  • Coordinate a storm drain stenciling project to raise awareness about pollution in storm drain runoff that can impact our aquifers and ecosystems.
  • Use Keep America Beautiful’s Take Action poster, website and lessons to involve high school students in a local community improvement project.
  • Help plant and maintain green spaces in your community.
  • Pick up a piece of litter every day.
  • Ask the public works department or parks department if your chapter can adopt a street, median, park or other area and pledge to keep it clean for one year.
  • Dispose of used motor oil properly. Don’t dump it on the ground or in a drain.
  • Participate in Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup ™ which runs from March through May.
  • Organize a Christmas tree recycling event.
  • Conduct a public awareness campaign on an environmental issue of concern to your community such as graffiti, litter prevention or recycling.
  • Reclaim a vacant lot and create a community garden.
  • Help your library establish an environmental corner that offers books and other educational materials about taking care of the environment.
  • Organize a community clean-up.
  • Organize a graffiti paint-out or a mural project to cover a wall plagued with graffiti.
  • If you smoke, carry a pocket ashtray to discard your cigarette butts.
  • Stay informed. Register to receive Keep America Beautiful’s e-newsletter at www.kab.org.

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