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                   Keep America Beautiful was established in 1953. Keep America Beautiful formed  when a group of corporate and civic leaders met in New York City to bring the public and private sectors together to develop and promote a national cleanliness ethic.They desire to inspire and educate the population to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment. Keep America Beautiful is a leading national nonprofit organization that provides the expertise, programs and resources to help people end littering, improve recycling, and beautify communities. The organization is driven by the work and passion of more than 620 community-based affiliates, millions of volunteers, and the support of corporate partners, municipalities, elected officials, and individuals.

                An important step toward Keeping America Beautiful is to identify problems and educate the public about them. We designed and developed a software application that can take advantage of current computing technology to help code the varying levels of litter (1=no litter, 2=slightly littered, 3=littered, 4=extremely) in a community using images from Google Streets, and to create a local and national measure of litter.

                As a team, we went through the process of collecting, reviewing, and coding image.  We also organized the images and the strategies to engage broader participation from local residents.

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