Keep Cincinnati Beautiful offers the opportunity to recycle all that discarded holiday material through its monthly paper drive, Beyond the Recycling Bin.

        Collection sites are open Jan. 5 from 9 a.m. to noon. Items such as mixed paper products, including cardboard, cereal boxes, beverage cases, junk mail, magazines, office paper and newspaper can be dropped off behind the Kroger at Western Hills Plaza on Glenway Avenue and at the College Hill Kroger, 1606 W. North Bend Road.

        Curbside recycling will take place after the holidays, which gives a chance to get rid of 15,000 cardboard cutouts of Frosty the snowman passed out by KCB and the Corrugated Cardboard Council the week before Christmas.

        This was the sixth year KCB passed out the cardboard cutouts. They offered children a chance to color Frosty and learn about recycling.

        “The cardboards went to mostly elementary and a few pre-schools,” said Errin Howard, education specialist for Keep Cincinnati Beautiful. “High school students placed stickers on back of the cardboards with information about recycling.”

        Types of material that can be recycled curbside include newspapers, telephone books, brown grocery bags, magazines (no bound catalogs) and corrugated cardboard (break corrugated cardboard into about 2-foot-by-2-foot pieces, place underneath or beside bin. Cardboard also can be bundled with string).

        Plastic products include soda, milk, detergent, shampoo and small-mouth drink bottles with a recycling symbol on bottom.

        Cans include aluminum and bi-metal beverage cans, steel/tin food cans.

        Glass includes clear, brown, green and blue food and beverage glass only. Residents may begin putting out material for curbside recycling on the regular trash pickup days.

        Keep Cincinnati Beautiful is a nonprofit organization promoting litter prevention, recycling and community improvement and beautification.

        • • • The Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater Cincinnati, recognized as a model for dozen of communities nationwide, won the Outstanding Coalition of the Year Award this month.

        The award was presented to U.S. Congressman Rob Portman, R-Terrace Park, in Washington, D.C., during the National Leadership Forum of the Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America.

        Mr. Portman helped establish the local coalition in 1996.

        The coalition brings local community organizations together with business leaders, parents, youth, clergy, law enforcement and school officials to implement drug initiatives.

        It was singled out for its effective efforts to reduce drug abuse through education.

        Allen Howard's “Some Good News” column runs Sunday-Thursday. If you have suggestions about outstanding achievements, or acts of kindness uplifting to the Tristate, let him know at 768-8362; at ahoward@enquirer.com; or by fax at 768-8340.
       

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