Keep Ashe Beautiful Organized Litter Sweeps
Ashe County’s beauty is beyond compare and it’s our goal to keep it that
way. Litter can give the impression that a community is not safe or welcoming. By cleaning up an area, people are showing their love for their county and sustaining the beauty for future generations. Our goal is to enhance community pride by encouraging positive attitudes and behaviors regarding protecting natural resources and improving solid waste handling, recycling, and beautification.
Litter Sweeps
Twice a year, Keep Ashe Beautiful organizes county-wide litter sweeps aimed at removing unsightly trash from our county.
Keep Ashe Beautiful is pleased to announce the final bag count for our 2025
county-wide litter sweeps resulting in the cleanup of 749 bags of trash, 115 tires, for a grand total of 29,187 pounds of waste. 206 large trash bags full of roadside
litter have been removed from our roadsides. That amounts to approximately 8,000 pounds of
junk no longer trashing up miles and miles of Ashe County roads, highways, and byways!
Twenty-Five teams of Ashe County volunteers consisting of about 116
people converged to help make our home greener, cleaner and more
beautiful……Thanks to all our great volunteers!!
A quick comparison to our Fall litter sweep held in October in 2021 shows that
this Fall sweep collected 35% less litter with about 45% fewer volunteers.
According to Keep America Beautiful metrics, the Spring sweep had a cost benefit
to Ashe County of about $15,000. This is based on the number of volunteer hours
contributed for these events.
The big hauls this Fall came from the Creston group which accounted for 35 bags
and the Highway 221 crew with 33 bags plus a bunch of miscellaneous debris.