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Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Business
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Volunteers keep thousands of recyclables items out of Louisiana landfills
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Volunteers prevented thousands of recyclable items from increasing landfill waste during Love the Boot Week 2025. Keep Louisiana Beautiful partnered with Coca-Cola to spearhead the event across 27 parishes. The event diverted 16,503 bottles and cans from landfills, an increase of 23 percent from last year. 'We are grateful to Coca-Cola for continuing to support recycling during Love the Boot Week,' said Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser. 'When the recycling loop is completed, cans and bottles stay out of the landfill and can be used to create new products. It's exciting to see this recycling effort take off, and we look forward to seeing it grow each year.' More Louisiana News A record 26,935 individuals volunteered for 81,852 hours and 1,408 events in all 64 parishes, collecting 514 tons of litter. In addition to litter abatement volunteers, they planted 1,204 trees, 3,672 plants, and refurbished 477 gardens during Love the Boot Week community beautification efforts. Caddo, Bossier, and DeSoto Parishes participated in the clean-up events with support from the Coca-Cola and Osprey Initiative, which facilitates recycling. 'We at Coca-Cola are proud to have been doing business and employing people in Louisiana for nearly 125 years. With over 2,300 employees from Shreveport to New Orleans, we are deeply committed to preserving our beloved Sportsman's Paradise,' said Scott McCallister, VP of Coca-Cola UNITED'S West Region. 'We are thrilled to see the strong interest and participation in the recycling efforts we support through Keep Louisiana Beautiful's Love the Boot Week. This initiative helps us to recover packaging to then produce new bottles and cans for the beverages our consumers love.' Recycling is not just a beautification measure, it has many community, environmental, and health benefits as well. According to the EPA, recycling also reduces waste sent to landfills and incinerators, conserves natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals. It increases economic security by tapping a domestic source of material. Prevents pollution by reducing the need to mine raw materials. Recycling conserves energy, supports American manufacturing, and conserves valuable resources. It also creates jobs in the U.S. recycling and manufacturing sectors. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to
Yahoo
13-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Non-profit residents, staff cleanup Providence House campus
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) —A Shreveport nonprofit committed to serving homeless families with children participated in Love the Boot Week by cleaning up downtown. Providence House said residents, volunteers, and staff rolled up their sleeves to pull weeds, refresh rock beds, and pick up 23 bags of litter around the campus. 'As a proud downtown resident, we recognize that maintaining a clean and beautiful environment benefits not only our organization and its residents, but also our downtown neighbors and area visitors.' Cash prize for double-city wide cleanup, Shreveport and Bossier City 'What started as a simple cleanup became a great reminder that when we come together with purpose, even small actions can have a powerful impact on our neighborhood and community,' said Interim Executive Director Lakeisha Florence. Susan Russell, Executive Director of Keep Louisiana Beautiful, said, 'This event not only helps to improve communities, but it also brings awareness to our state's litter problem. Only when we work together and change our behaviors will Louisiana see a reduction in litter.' In May, Keep Louisiana Beautiful will release a report detailing the impact of its cleanup and beautification events. The report will include total events, volunteers, bags of trash collected, pounds of trash collected, and other key statistics. It will be available at Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
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‘Love the Boot Week' kicks off in Downtown Shreveport
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — It's Love the Boot Week in Louisiana, and Shreveport Green hosted a volunteer event this morning. Love the Boot Week takes place from April 5 to 13, 2025. They partnered with the Robinson Film Center to clean up litter downtown before their larger clean-up event this weekend. 'Right now, we need to focus on cleaning up all the bits of litter because it really has a reverberating effect. When you start to see trash, it's more likely gonna happen; people are gonna litter if they see more trash, 'But we also need to consider that all our family and friends that are in our ecosystem. They require us as stewards to take that initial effort to pick up the trash,' says Executive Director of Shreveport Green, Lauren 'LJ' Jones. Shreveport Green's big double city-wide clean-up is Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon at Fair Grounds Field, 2901 Pershing Blvd, Shreveport. Volunteers who collect the most aluminum cans win a cash reward. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- General
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Louisiana launches ‘Love the Boot Week 2025' for litter cleanup
BATON ROUGE, La. (KTAL/KMSS)—On Friday, Baton Rouge kicked off a week dedicated to litter removal and beautification throughout Louisiana. More Louisiana News The nonprofit 'Keep Louisiana Beautiful' and Lieutenant Billy Nungesser kicked off 'Love the Boot Week 2025'. According to Nungesser, over 1,000 cleanups are planned across all 64 parishes from April 5th through the 13th. 'If you pick up litter for a day, you're about 80% less likely to litter again. So we're making progress,' Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser. 'This is no longer just a week cleanup, it is a movement. And we're gonna keep our foot on the gas until we have a clean Louisiana and put the paradise back in Sportsman's Paradise.' According to Keep Louisiana Beautiful, during 'Love the Boot Week' last year, 19,441 individuals volunteered, and 347 tons of litter were removed. 'It really is about engaging everyone like everyone has a responsibility to solve this problem. The good news is it's 100 % solvable, right? And so if everybody just took care of their space, right? Their neighborhood, their business, their community, then we could solve this problem,' said Susan Russell, Executive Director of Keep Louisiana Beautiful. Volunteers focused on community beautification, planting 921 trees, and refurbishing 366 gardens. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now 'We know that having a dirty, littered community decreases community pride. It leads to more criminal activity. It's unhealthy for our environment, not only for us as residents but our wildlife. We also know that it's an economic development and tourism problem,' said Courtney Hornsby, a Keep Louisiana Beautiful Board Member. 'Studies have shown time and time again that new businesses or new people do not want to move into your community or visit your community if it's dirty, if it's littered, if it looks like no one cares about it. And So this is a problem that touches every Louisiana state agency, every municipality, every corner of our state.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Orleans Parish Civil District court issues preliminary injunction in travel ban hearing
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The city travel ban imposed by the New Orleans City Council remains ineffective. On Friday morning, March 28, the judge sided with New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell that the recently passed Ordinance Cal. No. 34,984: Travel Moratorium, is unlawful. The ordinance states: 'No public officer or employee of the City of New Orleans may engage in non-essential travel, incur any non-essential travel-related expenses or obligation, or be reimbursed, by the City of New Orleans for non-essential travel-related expenses.' Statewide cleanup effort during Love the Boot Week An Orleans Parish Civil District court has issued a preliminary injunction on the travel ban granting Cantrell temporary relief until the court makes a decision. The judge had granted Cantrell a temporary restraining order against the council's ban on city-paid travel but it expired Friday. The ban, which would have prohibited non-essential travel between March 9 and April 30, passed after the Cantrell administration told council there was a cash flow problem. A problem cited in a letter penned to Chief Administrative Officer Gilbert Montaño and Director of Finance Romy Samuel from Council President JP Morrell who on Feb. 27 expressed 'dismay and concern' surrounding Cantrell's previous trip to Washington. That was the base of the argument when Cantrell decided not to sign off on an agreement that would pay the Orleans Parish School Board millions of dollars. Part of Morrell's letter read: 'Given the administration's claims that the City is headed for a potential fiscal crisis, it is simplybeyond the pale that the Mayor would ignore an ordinance designed to address the fiscal crisisthat prompted her to withhold funding from Orleans Parish schoolchildren.' The judge had ruled the ordinance exceeded the authority granted to the council under the city's Home Rule Charter. Bourbon Street frequenters open to French Quarter being pedestrian-only Over the past few months, three different judges in three separate matters have ruled that the council exceeded its charter-granted authority by attempting to exercise both legislative and executive powers, infringing on the Mayor's authority as granted by the City's Home Rule Charter. The Mayor remains hopeful that we can move past these disputes and work together to address the issues that matter most to the residents of New Orleans City of New Orleans The development comes while Cantrell is in Washington D.C. to participate in the Canada-Mexico trade cabbage donation made to Second Harvest in wake of parade cancellation Trump signals possible TikTok extension as sale deadline nears Tulane men's basketball coach Ron Hunter provides offseason updates, addresses UNT rumor Mental health cuts concern lawmakers Alina Habba sworn in as interim US attorney for New Jersey Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
