Welcome to the Keep Madison County Beautiful website

About Keep Madison County Beautiful

Keep Madison County Beautiful is an affiliate of Keep Texas Beautiful, a statewide community improvement, litter prevention, and beautification organization. KMCB came into existence in October 2007, having grown out of Keep Madisonville Beautiful. By broadening our focus to include all of Madison County, opportunities to assist in the community have multiplied for us.

KMCB currently oversees several different programs:

Adopt a Spot - You as an individual or a group may choose to adopt a spot, drainage way, or city street. The goal is to designate that area as yours to keep clean. Once the group has conducted two of six required annual clean-ups, an Adopt-A-Spot sign with your organization's name or acronym on it will be installed at your adoption location.

Adopt a County Mile - This program recognizes the need and desirability of litter-free highways and county roads. It allows for group participation through an agreement with Keep Madison County Beautiful to maintain litter-free litter-free highways and county roads. Groups pledge to adopt a county mile in which to collect litter a minimum of four times per year. Keep Madison County Beautiful will erect a sign at one end of the adopted section with the group's name or acronym displayed. Groups are encouraged to participate by contacting Rae Kubiak at 936-348-3591.

Spot of the Month - This is a fun one! We select one residence and one business each month to receive recognition as "Spot of the Month". We look for clean and attractive properties that increase the overall appeal of our county. Recipients of this award are generally individuals and businesses who maintain their property themselves. If you have a favorite spot, you may nominate them by contacting Rae Kubiak at 936-348-3591. (Rae will want to know the address of the property, and who owns it. If you can send a photo of the property with an explanation of why you wish to nominate it that will be even better.)

The Green Team - The Green Team started as a group specifically intended to police The Texas Mushroom Festival for recyclables. This festival, held in Madisonville, Texas each October, is one of more than 30 events in Texas supported by "Green Teams" whose special aim is to help decrease litter and to enhance recycling opportunities at public events in the community. Coca-Cola got us started in 2006, and Keep Texas Beautiful continues to provide planning assistance. The Green Team has since branched out and assists where ever and when ever we can!

Annual Garden Show and Seminar - For three years this event has been held in the Spring, at the Truman Kimbro Center. We have had interesting speakers and exhibitors, and finished up with a tree give-away thanks to the Texas Forestry Service.

August 16, 2010

The Green Team volunteered at the Bluegrass fundraising event sponsored by the Madison County Arts Council on August 15, 2010.

November 6, 2009

On Tuesday November 3, 2009 the Green Team rewarded all their hard work for the year, especially volunteering at the Texas Mushroom Festival last month, with a well earned pizza party at Pizza Hut.

November 6, 2009
Keep Madison County Beautiful's Business and Residence of the Month

Keep Madison County Beautiful have announced the new Business and Residence of the Month for November 2009. Read More.

 

November 6, 2009
Keep Madison County Beautiful's Business and Residence of the Month

Keep Madison County Beautiful have announced the new Business and Residence of the Month for October 2009. Read More.

 

November 3, 2009
Household Hazardous Waste Collection

When: November 14, 2009 at 7am - 2pm
Where: University Services Building, College Station, TX - Take Hwy. 30 Exit (Harvey Rd. towards Huntsville) Entrance on the left after Veteran's Park.

Bring in your old paint, antifreeze, oil, gasoline, pesticides, cleaning solvents, computers, medical waste, pharmaceuticals, household batteries, automobile batteries, fluorescent light bulbs, and more for proper disposal.

Items that will NOT be accepted are household garbage, 55-gallon drums, ammunition, explosives, tires, large televisions and large coplers and printers, or radioactive waste.

Household Hazardous Waste Hotline: 979-764-3809

Event will be held rain or shine!!

November 3, 2009

The Green Team set up a booth of information and goodies at the Texas Mushroom Festival on October 17, 2009. Volunteers gave away recycling information, stickers, etc. and also sold Green Team t-shirts. Read more.

 

September 11 , 2009
Keep Madison County Beautiful's Business and Residence of the Month

Keep Madison County Beautiful have announced the new Business and Residence of the Month for September 2009. Read More.

 

August 26, 2009

Keep Madison County Beautiful is sponsoring the Electronic Collection Event for the month of September. At all four solid waste transfer stations in Madison County, we will be accepting electronics of all kinds. There will be no charge and no dumping permit is required.

 

August 11, 2009
City of Bryan FREE "Green Living" Workshops

All workshops will be held at the Bryan Public Library on the 2nd Floor: 201 E. 26th Street, Bryan TX. Registration required – Limit of 40 participants per class.

August 10, 2009
Keep Madison County Beautiful's Business and Residence of the Month

Keep Madison County Beautiful have announced the new Business and Residence of the Month for August 2009. Read more.

June 11, 2009
Keep Madison County Beautiful's Business and Residence of the Month

Keep Madison County Beautiful have announced the new Business and Residence of the Month for June 2009. Read more.

April 22, 2009
Learning about Earth's Delicate Balance

To mark Earth Day on April 22, Bobette Heaton, with the assistance of Rae Kubiak, left, demonstrates to residents of Madisonville Care Center the relatively small amount of usable soil the earth has.

April 15, 2009

RESULTS OF THE DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS TRASH OFF

Pictured here before the last of the tires was loaded onto the trailer to be hauled away are Mike Sulsbury and Jimmie Jeffries. The turn-out for this tire recycling event was not as enthusiastic as we had hoped. We'll be having one more tire recycling event this year as part of the Great American Clean-Up. It will be May 11 - 18. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

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April 10, 2009

WIPE OUT WIRELESS WASTE - Recycle Cell Phones

MADISONVILLE, Texas --- Keep Madison County Beautiful is accepting old cell phones to be recycled. Drop your old phone off today at the Madison County Chamber of Commerce.

In 2007, there were an estimated 243,428,202 wireless subscribers in in the United States. And the average cell phone user generally replaces his/her phone every 18 months, however only 15% of wireless subscribers actually recycle their phones. Admittedly, most people have no idea how or where to recycle their phones. That is why Keep America Beautiful has teamed up with Sprint to create the Wipe Out Wireless Waste (WOWW) program.

The WOWW program ensures that wireless phones, batteries, accessories and connection cards are recycled responsibly while generating money for local KAB community improvement and revitalization projects. Our local branch of Keep America Beautiful, Keep Madison County Beautiful is now participating in the WOWW program, and along with recycling partner ReCellular, KAB and Sprint have made it easy for anyone to recycle their wireless equipment for FREE - regardless of make, model, condition, or service provider.

Keep Texas Beautiful affiliates, like Keep Madison County Beautiful, participating in this program are rewarded for the phones they collect. Sprint donates 75% of the net proceeds to the local affiliate, 15% is donated to Keep America Beautiful and 10% is used to provide financial awards to the top-performing KAB affiliates. WOWW maintains highest standards for reuse/recycling, standards not observed by all competitive programs.

Keep Madison County Beautiful has everything you need to recycle your phone. Visit the Chamber of Commerce office and ask KMCB director Rae Kubiak or call 936-348-3591. You may drop off your phone or pick up a postage paid envelope to mail it in yourself. You will be directed to a website with instructions to help you remove all data from your phone before donating your old phones. You will be protecting the environment through recycling, and raising money for clean-up and green-up efforts in your community.


About Keep Madison County Beautiful -- Keep Madison County Beautiful is an affiliate of Keep Texas Beautiful, a statewide community improvement, litter prevention, and beautification organization. Keep Texas Beautiful is in turn, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful.

April 5, 2009

Keep Madison County Beautiful - Spring Show and Seminar 2009

March 7, 2009 - Keep Madison County Beautiful held its annual Spring Show and Seminar at the Truman Kimbro Center - On the Square in Madisonville.

• Malcolm Back, well-known author and composting expert gave a timely talk about the benefits of mulching and compost.
• Dr. Joe Novak - Texas A & M Department of Agriculture talked to us about the socio-psychological benefits of holistic gardening.
• Terry Keeling, master gardener and wildflower expert gave us an informative talk about the wildflowers that grow in our area.

February 2, 2009

Join us on March 7 for our Spring Show & Seminar.

March 7, 2009 - 9am - 2pm
Truman Kimbro Covention Center
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January 12, 2009

We've got a new pic up of the Green Team at their pizza party on November 11, 2008.

 

January 9, 2009

Keep Madison County Beautiful placed two wire compost containers with signs that read “aluminum cans” on the corner of OSR at S.H. 75 about two months ago to see if people would use them instead of throwing cans on the side of the road.

Gradually people began throwing cans into the bins. The amazing thing that happened is that the trash on all four corners of that intersection disappeared. The corners had been generating a minimum of a kitchen-size garbage bag per week. Now there is less than one plastic grocery bag of trash collected there per month. Recently people have even been putting sacks of cans into the bins.

When the bins were emptied and hauled to the transfer station to be recycled in December, eight large lawn trash sacks of cans had accumulated. There was only a little trash - three plastic bottles and one glass bottle - which dispels the myth that recycling is heavily contaminated with trash.

“We encourage others to see if the same thing will happen on their corner or road and report back to us,” said Bobette Heaton of KMCB.

 

January 8, 2009

City Manager Paul Catoe has announced that Madisonville citizens may dispose of their natural Christmas trees at City Rock Yard, which is located at 400 West Williams Street.

Citizens have been advised to remove all ornaments and tree stands before dropping them off. They will not be accepting artificial trees at the same location, since they cannot be shredded by the City's chipping machine. Artificial trees may be dropped of at the open top box located at the City Yard.

For additional information, contact City Hall at 348-2748.

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