"McDonald's is being sucked into the movement to ban plastic straws"
Link to Zlati Myers USA Today story
The march to eliminate fast food straws continues....
GBHS "Save the Wave" Project
Want to be impressed? Want to help meet a goal?
Catch the "Save the Wave" project Gulf Breeze High School Marine Science and Art students put together using over 500 plastic bottles (waves) and Capri-Sun packaging (fish). This project focuses attention on plastic pollution! There is a student-led effort to get campus-wide water filling stations installed at GBHS to reduce the number of plastic bottles used there on a daily basis! Thank you to Marine Science Teacher Katherine Edwards and Art Teacher Susan Hoffman for your support and guidance.
Navarre Middle School
Holley Navarre Middle School students are passionate about straws - they've been cleaning them off Navarre Beach, Florida & Pensacola Beach, Florida by the thousands! These creative students made a giant straw from their straws and used it in their appeal to local Navarre Beach eateries asking them to skip the straw or give them on request only. Kids changing the world, taking on marine debris! #skipthestraw #nomoremarinedebris Jen Butera is their rock star faculty sponsor!
May 19 How long before this ends up in the Bay?
A sleeping spot at Bartram Park. 18 volunteers picked up 112 lbs of debris before migrating into the bay
May 12th Air BnB hosts assisted at Chimney Park.
169 lbs of debris picked up by 29 volunteers on a beautiful Saturday moring
May 3rd & 5th - An extra site earlier in the week
An intrepid volunteer (Andy) collected 170 lbs of debris at Bay Bluffs earlier in the week. Coupled with the 453 lbs from the 5th makes May the fifth month in a row of higher volumes versus 2017
Apr 28th at Park West on the beach
42 volunteers collected 444 water bottle caps, preserved wood and ~200' of copper wire.
In April, 1,555 lbs of trash picked up from our beaches. Year total to date is 5,868 lbs
Apr 21st at Pensacola Visitor Center & Bartram Park
Between the two parks, 54 volunteers (thanks Science National Honor Society members) picked up 332 lbs of trash. Including the usual debris by graffiti painters
Apr 13th at Chimney and Bay Bluffs Parks - 737 lbs!
Quite a collection of tires (7), two water heater shells and the usual adult alcoholic beverage containers. Also a fire extingusher!
Rain Out on April 7th but ........
Two Ocean Hour members (Andy & Tammy) collected 168 lbs of trash on April 8th!!!