10/2/18 @ 3:30 p.m. - On Saturday, September 15th, Keep Nassau Beautiful and Kayak Amelia hosted a local Coastal Cleanup Event and recruited volunteers to clean our local shoreline, in conjunction with cleanup efforts taking place across the world. 124 volunteers removed 425 pounds of trash from 12.5 miles of Amelia Island beaches, while nearly 13 million volunteers removed nearly 250 million pounds of trash from beaches and waterways worldwide.
The top items collected locally included: cigarette butts, plastic straws, plastic bottles, food wrappers, bottle caps, foam pieces, and construction materials. Keep Nassau Beautiful Executive Director, Lynda Bell, stated "We are so grateful to all the amazing site captains and volunteers who came out. Awareness has really grown around the issue of ocean plastic and it's great to see people taking action. Keep Nassau Beautiful is pleased to do its part in reducing plastic".
For additional information on the cleanup event, please read the attached Press Release from Keep Nassau Beautiful.
-Sabrina Robertson
County Manager's Office
The top items collected locally included: cigarette butts, plastic straws, plastic bottles, food wrappers, bottle caps, foam pieces, and construction materials. Keep Nassau Beautiful Executive Director, Lynda Bell, stated "We are so grateful to all the amazing site captains and volunteers who came out. Awareness has really grown around the issue of ocean plastic and it's great to see people taking action. Keep Nassau Beautiful is pleased to do its part in reducing plastic".
For additional information on the cleanup event, please read the attached Press Release from Keep Nassau Beautiful.
-Sabrina Robertson
County Manager's Office
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