Including Bartram Park, 46 volunteers picked up 271 lbs of debris
Jun 16th at Pensacola Visitor Center
Jun 9th on Scenic Hwy
Chimney Park saw 9 volunteers pick up 112 lbs. A further 211 lbs by 22 volunteers at Bay Bluffs Park
June 2nd at Naval Live Oaks & Sikes Bridge
At Naval Live Oaks 10 volunteers picked up 25 lbs, 24 lbs at the north end of Bob Sikes bridge and 105 lbs at the south end
May 28 & 30th OH members cleanup.....
Jen's Home School class picked up 41 lbs and the team of Tammy/Andy a further 61 lbs of debris out at the beach. Brings May's total to 1,123 lbs
The march to eliminate fast food straws continues....
"McDonald's is being sucked into the movement to ban plastic straws"
Link to Zlati Myers USA Today story
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