As part of the Ocean Conservancy’s Trash Free Seas program – tomorrow, Eben and I, along with his middle school classmates and families, will be participating in the Ocean Conservancy International Coastal Cleanup. (Which we participate in every year!) This year’s Cleanup will have even greater significance with the anticipation of possible Japan tsunami debris on the West Coast.
Ocean Conservancy hopes to compare data collected this year to historical numbers – adding efforts from various sectors – including NOAA and other federal and state agencies, the military, local businesses and nonprofit organizations.
I will snap photos and share the data that we collect tomorrow with you early next week. The statistics from the 2011 International Coastal Cleanup is startling – “Nearly 600,000 people (598,076) picked up more than nine million pounds of trash (9,184,427) along over 20,000 miles of coastlines (20,775).”
Will you be joining us for the coastal cleanup? What area will you be cleaning up?
— The photo was taken on our last trip to the Florida Keys!
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