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Keep Kimball Beautiful Awarded Two Grants

Keep Kimball Beautiful has received two grants from the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.

The first of the grants was for $40,362 for the litter reduction and recycling with the second being $13,702 for the public education grant.

According to Keep Kimball Beautiful Director Larissa Binod the litter reduction grant will mostly be used to pay personnel and help sustain the recycle center.

"I write the grants to help fund the personnel and the supplies needed and the operating expenses to offset the cost of running the recycle center, because it's very labor intensive to sort all...