Trio of Carmeuse operations support Ohio River clean-up efforts

Volunteers from three Carmeuse locations on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River have recently joined clean-ups of the shoreline. Working with environmental organization, Living Lands & Waters (LL&W), the volunteers spent three-hour shifts removing garbage from the riverbanks. 

Personnel from the Carmeuse Black River and Maysville Operations along with Yager Materials joined the LL&W crew on 30th July. Their efforts followed those of employees at Carmeuse subsidiaries, Yager Materials and Yager Marine, who turned out in May to help clean-up the Ohio River shoreline around Owensboro.

The relationship between LL&W and Carmeuse began over a decade ago when the shipbuilding experts at Yager Marine supplied the charity with two specialist barges. LL&W crew spend up to nine months every year living and traveling on the barges, hosting a variety of conservation initiatives. Its river clean-ups have so far removed almost 11 million pounds of trash from the nation’s waterways.