Keep Columbus Beautiful

Food Waste Action Week is going strong! Today, we visit one of our free food scraps drop-off locations on collection day to see how residents are using the site. Find your closest one at columbus.gov/foodwaste

We saw the Columbus Metropolitan Library CEO eat a book and thought, “We can make our boss eat a piece of litter"—so for 10,000 likes, we are going to do just that!

We love #FoodWasteAction week!

Our annual City of Columbus Employee Spring Cleanup was a huge success with folks from across departments hitting the streets and picking up over 11,760 pounds of litter last Friday!

Don't worry, you too can write in Phil Meeyup in the "Best Hometown Mascot" category in this year's Best of the 'Bus from City Scene! https://www.cityscenecolumbus.com/arts-and-entertainment/best-of-the-bus-2026_2/

We are proud supporters of #FoodWasteActionWeek! 🌎

Make your food go fuuuuuuuurther:

🍽️ Remix leftovers into new meals
🗓️ Plan meals ahead
♻️ Compost any food that can’t be eaten

For your pocket, for our planet.

HP is mining its own e-waste to build its latest laptops Recycling startup Mint Innovation partnered with the tech giant to make the industry's first batch of closed-loop recycled copper from old HP computers and printers.

Did you know that you can bring your e-waste to one of the city's Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers to be recycled?

Spring cleanup season is here. 🌱

Teams across the city took time today picking up litter and helping refresh neighborhoods as part of today’s citywide cleanup effort. Keeping Columbus clean takes all of us, and we’re proud to do our part.

Not only do we have the BEST employees but we appreciate all of their efforts to divert materials from the landfill, organize litter cleanups, and do everything they can to help keep Columbus beautiful. We ♻️ you!

Pick up those butts at KickButt Columbus on Saturday, March 21st!

Keep Food Out of the Landfill! - Simply Living As hunger impacts our community, the folks at Food Rescue US are taking action! Food Rescue US is a national organization with 51 locations in 24 states & the District of Columbia, including one right here in Columbus, Ohio. The premise is simple: some businesses have extra food they can’t use before it spoils. Food Rescue US has a network of volunteers to pick up the food and deliver it to social services agencies that provide it to those in need.

"When I learned that in Franklin County a million pounds of food goes to the landfill every day, that did it for me. I knew I had to get involved.”—Rita Haider

The Arnold Sports Festival is in town and our very own Phil Meeyup is ready to compete by bulking up on recyclables and pressing tonnage to the curb! 💪♻️

KickButt Columbus! Registration It’s time to kick butt, Columbus — cigarette butt, that is! Join Keep Columbus Beautiful for our annual KickButtColumbus! spring highway ramp clean-up event. Help remove litter and blighted conditions...

🦵Sign up today! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Who’s ready for KickButt Columbus?! Join us to cleanup highway ramps of cigarette butts (and any other trash) on March 21!

Unfortunately, our Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers cannot accept any construction materials or demolition waste from home or business projects. Please consider taking those items to the landfill or one of the C&DD sites in Central Ohio.

Did you know that both plastic and glass peanut butter jars can be recycled here in Columbus? 🥜♻️

US Food Waste Pact reports progress on diversion The data shows increased composting and anaerobic digestion in 2024, though retailers’ still wasted $26.9 billion worth of food.

"More food waste was sent to donation in 2024, rising four percentage points to more than 18% of total waste."

There are free food scraps drop-locations across Columbus just waiting for you to fill them up and be composted. Find the closest one at columbus.gov/foodwaste

38% of roadway litter are cigarette butts—so let's clean them up at KickButt Columbus on Saturday, March 21 at Wolfe Park starting at 10 a.m.!

‘Deconstruction Academy’ teaches people how to reduce construction waste » Yale Climate Connections Doors, sinks, windows, floors, and cabinets often end up in a landfill when a building is torn down. A Minnesota-based company is trying to change that.

"When a building is torn down, much of the rubble ends up in a landfill. But many commonly discarded building materials – like doors, sinks, windows, floors, cabinets, and wood – could be reused instead."
yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/02/deco...

Last Friday, our team joined the Lunchtime Cleanup organized by Lisa Boggs to pick up litter along Sullivant Avenue. Thank you to everyone who has been showing up for over a hundred cleanup events working to keep Columbus beautiful!

We are less than one month away from KickButt Columbus! Throw on a safety vest, pick up a litter grabber, and join hundreds of volunteers across Columbus for our first major cleanup of the year!

Can you guess how many cigarette butts (the number one piece of litter) are in this container? Drop your answer in the comments and then signup to pick up some butts at KickButt Columbus on Saturday, March 21 at Wolfe Park.

Feel the Rhythm, Feel the Rhyme, Get On Up, It's Recycling Time! #bobsled #olympics #recycle

Prepare for the trashiest of trivia as we team up with Green Columbus to bring you a dumpster full of facts. Bag up some team members, empty some beer bottles to be recycled, and compost the crumbs of your bar snacks for this fun evening on Wednesday, March 25 at The Olde Oak!

Maybe we should stick to recycling.

We hope these two connected because picking up trash is hot! 🗑️😍

Ramadan Mubarak from all of us at Keep Columbus Beautiful!

We hear that Love Is Blind Ohio is here in Columbus and we want to make sure those dates recycle right, don't litter, and compost their food scraps.

Everyday is National Random Acts of Kindness Day here as our thousands of volunteers pick up litter across our communities.