Welcome to
Keep Pickens Beautiful!
Keep Pickens Beautiful is an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful.
We are a non-profit, volunteer organization in Pickens County, Georgia
with a mission to encourage litter reduction and recycling.
KPB sponsors and supports many projects and programs in our community
to enhance the beauty of our county, improve waste management,
and promote environmental stewardship.
Adopt-A-Road Collection Statistics
More than
32,784 bags
collected since 1998!
More than
7397 miles
cleaned since 1998!
Thank you so much to our volunteers!
The latest news from KPB
Edible Jasper is Growing Along Main Street
Keep Pickens Beautiful is excited to join the Edible Jasper initiative to help beautify Main Street with edible and sustainable landscaping. We hope to help grow this project throughout downtown, and eventually all of Pickens County!
Edible Jasper is a project that began in 2011 by a small group of residents who wanted to promote sustainable and beneficial landscaping. The Pickens County Progress let them begin in their parking lot. These original gardens are still around the front two light posts, but they are soon going to get an improvement and an expansion!
Keep Pickens Beautiful is Joining the Effort!
To begin, we are continuing to expand our garden near our office at the south end of Main Street. Several years ago, we planted rosemary and oregano. The rosemary is now gigantic and the oregano is still growing, but will be much happier now that it will have more companions. So now we’re expanding the garden! During the past couple of weeks, we’ve removed the grass along the road. SouthScape donated soil for the project, and we will continue adding more plants as the weather cools.
Click HERE to visit our new Edible Jasper page for more photos!
Join the Edible Jasper Team!
KPB wants to work with you!
Are you a local business owner who wants to help improve Main Street?
Does edible and sustainable landscaping sound exciting?
Do you want to come play in the dirt with us?
We need your help!
Keep Pickens Beautiful is also looking for leaders to help with Edible Jasper! We have many extremely knowledgable folks in our community who can help guide our plant choices as we develop more garden spaces. Please contact us if you want to help!
Sustainability and Environmental Responsibility
The Edible Jasper initiative expands the sustainable and environmentally responsible actions already happening in our community. KPB wants to help grow this into an identity for Pickens County – an identity as a forward-thinking community that cares about the environment and its citizens. Edible Jasper compliments our recycling center, farm-to-table restaurants, farmers markets, and more.
Join Keep Pickens Beautiful
Keep Pickens Beautiful supports lots of exciting projects and programs throughout our community, but we need your help so we can do more!
We are looking for volunteers, corporate partners, Board of Directors members, and community members to get involved and help us grow.
It is because of people like you that KPB has been able to accomplish so much throughout the years, but there is so much more that we can do if we work together!
Join us!
Come help us to make an even bigger difference in our community!
Corporate Partnerships
Keep Pickens Beautiful values our relationship with local businesses and organizations. Thanks to these partnerships, we’ve been able to make a big difference in our community!
We are currently redeveloping our Corporate Partnership program…. Details will be available here soon, so check back to learn more! Also, you can contact us and we’ll keep you informed!
Enjoy looking through our Business Recycling photo gallery to see some of our long-time recycling partners.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Because Keeping Pickens Beautiful is a Team Effort!
Enjoy the photos of Pickens County throughout our site.
Most were generously donated by Bear Woods Photography.
If you have images to contribute, please send them our way!
