Coastal Cleanup Day 2017 Trash Results

1720 Volunteers Picked Up 3906.5 Pounds of Trash

 

 

Thank you all so very much for coming to this year Coastal Cleanup Day annual event. It was a lot of work organizing and coordinating dozens of volunteers across 28 locations, so thank you again for your enthusiasm and positive energy!

Here are some numbers:

Volunteers = 1720

Trash in LBS = 3906.5

Recycle in LBS = 1530

Green waste in LBS = 2548.5

Cigarette butts = 18354

 

It has been a tradition for us to come together after Coastal Cleanup Day’s beach cleanups and habitat restoration and have a little celebration. This year we were proud to announce our newest partnership with TerraCycle. We are now collecting and separating rigid and beach plastic from the trash to have it recycled instead of being sent to the landfill.

We can’t thank you all enough for your terrific participation and efforts to cleanup our coastline, we can’t wait to do this again next year!