COLUMBUS, OH -- Next week, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) will present officials from Montgomery County and City of Dayton with $20,000 to initiate a new litter prevention and education program for the city. The check presentation will take place at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 11, at the Innerwest Priority Board Building, 1024 W.Third Street, Dayton.
Montgomery County is one of six Ohio communities chosen to pilot "Take Pride, Ohio!," a statewide litter prevention and revitalization campaign coordinated by the ODNR Division of Recycling & Litter Prevention. During the next year, each pilot community will create an individual, comprehensive litter prevention and education program to serve its citizens. These programs will involve a combination of litter prevention, volunteerism and economic revitalization to assist in the cleanup of litter-strewn areas.
"The Take Pride, Ohio! pilot communities will help ODNR design a sustainable litter prevention program that can be adapted for any Ohio community," said Michael Canfield, chief of the Division of Recycling & Litter Prevention. "We're looking forward to sharing this valuable information with the state's local recycling and litter prevention programs next year."
In addition to Montgomery County/City of Dayton, other communities and counties tapped to pilot "Take Pride, Ohio!" are Allen County; Butler County/City of Hamilton; Guernsey County; City of Mansfield and Washington County.