The International Coastal Cleanup in Palm Beach County- New Date-10-7-2017
Now more than ever is the perfect time for the International Coastal Cleanup in Palm Beach County!
Palm Beach County
Saturday, October 7, 2017
8 to 10 AM
Sandoway Discovery Center
142 S. Ocean Boulevard
Delray Beach FL 33484
561-264-7263
This is the 32nd Ocean Conservancy’s Coastal Cleanup and is coordinated by Keep Palm Beach Beautiful, Inc. This is the world’s largest one-day volunteer effort that focuses awareness of our various waterways and the need to protect them from businesses and people who would negatively impact them.
Supplies will be provided for the Cleanup and students can earn community service hours.
You can also download the Clean Swell app for your smartphone to help keep track of what you collect. This information helps the Ocean Conservancy because each year stats are provided to let us know what shape our waters are in.
~Last year over 504,000 volunteers from over 100 countries participated.
~Over 18 MILLION pounds of trash was collected
~Weird finds included: a blender, wizard hat, Christmas tree & lights, a slide, piano, and a tennis racquet.
~Enough balloons were collected to lift a walrus.
~Once again Cigarette butts led the list with over 1,863,838 collected
~This was followed by plastic beverage bottles, plastic bottle caps, food wrappers, and plastic grocery bags
I have found all of these items including pizza boxes, single flip flops, fishing lines, plastic toys, broken umbrellas, beer cans and bottles, those plastic dental floss things, and an item that I will not mention but disgusting in broad daylight when you’re hoping for a nice day at the beach.
Fishing tackle- this item is particularly harmful besides adding to the trash in the ocean. I’ve seen a beautiful pelican with fishing line wrapped around its beak. We were at the inlet and called the marine patrol to help it.
While a few miles out we saw a beautiful sea turtle that hat become wrapped in fishing line and died.
Please do what you can to keep our waters clean AND safe for all life.
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