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Out at Pensacola Beach for an hour of sunshine on the 23rd
27 volunteers picked up 133 lbs of cig butts, food wrappers, plastic bottle caps....
A computer screen joined a heart monitor as "odd" things Ocean Hour has picked up over the months
Sep 16th International Coastal Clean Up Day
Quite a day for OceanHour at several sites:
2204 straws were part of the 119 lbs of trash picked up at Quietwater Beach. More info to follow
Sep 9th at Chimney and Bay Bluffs Parks
271 lbs of trash were picked up by 47 volunteers including people from American Water and Scout Troop 602
Naval Live Oaks and Bob Sikes Bridge
44 volunteers picked up 290 lbs of trash at the two sites - more than the 4 cleanups in September 2016 (282 lbs)!
Four members of OceanHour attend GOMA Marine Debris Workshop
Presented update of grant from Gulf of Mexico Alliance over two days this week
Ocean Hour on Pensacola News Journal's Opinion Page
Seattle is banning plastic straws - EcoWatch notice
Quietwater Beach
One volunteer picked up 436 plastic straws and stir sticks in one hour between Flounders and Hemingway's restaurants
New site - Floridatown Park, Pace FL
44 volunteers picked up 182 lbs bringing the day's collection to 342 lbs including Pensacola Beach. For August a total to 1,033 lbs
Reducing plastic on our beautiful beach.........
Beverly McCay of the Holiday Inn Express on the beach is replacing plastic coffee stir sticks with wood! Plastic straws are NOT offered either!