PalmettoPride, South Carolina’s leading anti-litter organization, announced the finalists of the 2025 South Carolina Governor’s Art Contest on Litter Prevention.
This February, PalmettoPride and the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services (SCDES) received the Innovation Partnership Award at the Keep America Beautiful (KAB) Annual Conference for their collaboration on the launch of the Recycle Here SC mobile application. The award recognizes state agencies that demonstrate exceptional efforts in fostering partnerships with state and local KAB affiliates.
Created by the hands of local welding students and instructors at Central Carolina Technical College, the interactive art piece doubles as a recycling receptacle and was funded through a PalmettoPride grant.
With awards totaling $500,245 during this year’s grant cycle, PalmettoPride continues to empower organizations to create, enhance, and refine localized solutions to address and reduce litter in South Carolina communities.
With help from our state agency, legislative, municipal, nonprofit, education, and enforcement partners across the state, we had one of our best years…yet! But, we couldn’t…
After devastation from Hurricane Helene, Aiken County residents show resiliency through community tree planting.
The app–developed through a partnership between the S.C. Department of Environmental Services (SCDES), PalmettoPride, and the SC Beverage Association–will consolidate information for South Carolina residents on what, where, and how to recycle different items at different locations across the state.
Keep Myrtle Beach Beautiful aims to bring together the City of Myrtle Beach, community organizations and residents under one umbrella to focus beautification efforts throughout Myrtle Beach.
Columbia, SC (October 7, 2024) – Annually, PalmettoPride offers Tree Grants to municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and environmental groups across South Carolina. Tree Grant recipients must plant donated trees in public…
Columbia, SC (September 26, 2024) – PalmettoPride, in partnership with the South Carolina Litter Control Association, hosts an annual Litter Summit every September for Keep South Carolina Beautiful affiliates, litter…