Is this what you want to see when you drive down the road in our beautiful county? Do you want visitors to see this? If you saw this would you want to move your business to Blount County?
These are actually photos of litter in Blount County!
Blount County Litter Numbers
In 2010
The one (1) Blount County Sheriff's Office Litter Crew Collected 198,109 lbs of litter on 828.5 miles of roadway and recycled 2,815 gallons of recyclables.
Keep Blount Beautiful Volunteers cleaned up 22,640 lbs of litter
A total of 220,749 lbs of trash!
Blount County, Maryville and Alcoa together spent over $115,000 to clean up litter!
The one (1) Blount County Sheriff's Office Litter Crew Collected 276,060 lbs of litter on 815 miles of roadway.
Keep Blount Beautiful Volunteers cleaned up 26,375 lbs of litter
A total of 302,435 lbs of trash!
Blount County, Maryville and Alcoa together spent over $120,000 to clean up litter!


Litter Prevention

Tennessee Litter Numbers
In the 2009-2010 season: Approximately 25,489,000 pounds of roadside litter were collected through the Litter Grant program, approximately 7,144,000 of those pounds were recycled.
Litter was picked up on approximately 365,600 miles of county roads and approximately 58,230 state route miles.
Approximately 128,500 Inmates, Community Services, County Employees picked up litter during 2009-2010.
Approximately 5,406 Illegal roadside dumpsites were cleaned up.


Help us fight litter in our county, Blount County needs your help!
Keep America Beautiful
Litter Facts
Men litter more than women
Most littered item? Cigarette butts
38% of litter
Top 3 Roadway Littered Items:
38% cigarette butts
22% paper
19% plastic
Banana Peels, apple cores & gum are litter
Once litter is on the ground it attracts more litter
Who pays for litter? You do!
Litterers cost Tennessee taxpayers 8 million dollars a year!
What else could we do with that money?


Visit Keep TN Beautiful and
Keep America Beautiful
for more information.