BATON ROUGE — Keep Louisiana Beautiful awarded multiple parishes, including East Baton Rouge Parish, nearly $175,000 in grant money to help keep communities clean.

Twenty organizations in 17 parishes will receive funds from the Healthy Communities Grant program, which awards grants to be used for cleaning up litter, strengthening the enforcement of litter laws, educating residents and increasing recycling.

BREC is one of these 20 organizations, and KLB says the money will be used to clean up illegal tire dumping at Monte Sano Park. BREC will remove tires already there and install a roadside "physical barrier" to prevent future tire dumping.

“Thanks to the hard work of our grant recipients, communities throughout the state are experiencing a reduction in litter, improved recycling, and

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