Businesses around Lexington are cleaning up their act and going green. But first they must roll up their sleeves and dig through the trash! Bluegrass Pride is set to do a dirty job to keep the Earth cleaner.

"We basically get the facility to hold their trash for one days and we actually sort through their trash so it come from all different parts of the building as well. We sort through the trash and we pick out what's recyclable. So basically it shows the facility what could have been recycled that wasn't," says Darcy Everett of Bluegrass Pride.

About one or two waste audits of businesses or schools are done each month.

"There's a couple of places that are really good that are under 10% but on average it's normally between 25-40 percent of what people are throwing away could actually be recycled," says Everett.

This is all a part of a competition called the Live Green Lexington Games, where businesses compete to reduce their waste, water usage, and energy consumption. The facility audited today didn't do such a great job but if after a year they improve their score, they'll receive an award.

Everett says, "We had 18.4 pounds of recyclables. 30.5 pounds of waste so that equaled out to 38 percent of the trash could have been recycled. And a lot of that came from paper which we see a lot in offices."

For more information go to www.bgpride.org.