Swiminista founder Andrea Bernholtz holds cleanup on Earth Day at Belmont Park in San Diego. Millions join the Great Global Cleanup around the world. It’s your beach, trail, lake, river, city and most importantly community.
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Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, is pleased to announce Jennifer Lawson as the new President and Chief Executive Officer. She will assume the role on May 16.
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Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful (GC&B) announced today that plans are underway for a first of its kind event March 23, 2022. The Keep America Beautiful affiliate will host “Connecting People and Places: A Community Conversation About Litter” intended to address the issue of littering on a hyperlocal scale.
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The network of “let’s-doers” from East to West, and from North to South, is the world’s biggest family—united by their dreams and actions. How unique it is to be bound together across oceans and borders, despite the cultural, political or religious differences. It has ONE face—the face of the human, the human who knows.
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Each year when spring rolls around, countless volunteers and organizations get to work on major cleanups all over Pennsylvania.
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Major international brands including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Unilever are among the 70 signatories of a joint letter calling for a UN treaty to tackle plastic pollution.
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Governor Tom Wolf, the state secretaries for the departments of Transportation and Environmental Protection, Representative Mike Sturla and City of Lancaster Mayor Danene Sorace joined other administration and community stakeholders today to highlight innovative local anti-littering measures and called for action to combat Pennsylvania’s litter-problem at all levels statewide.
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Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic sea ice. And a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine makes clear that the U.S. is a big part of the problem.
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Dwellers from eight Baltic countries joined the annual Clean Games Baltic Cup to clean up local areas. These are team competitions in waste collecting and sorting, where participants earn game points for the amount of garbage they have collected.
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Marisa Paige Butler of San Diego and We Clean Trails has become the third United States representative in three consecutive years to earn an international title on the Miss Earth stage.
Environment Secretary George Eustice said it was "time we left our throwaway culture behind once and for all". Separately, wet wipes, tobacco filters and sachets will also be examined. About 1.1 billion single-use plates and 4.25 billion items of cutlery - mostly plastic - are used annually, but just 10% are recycled upon disposal.
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On Nov. 7, Key Dives staff and customers removed 857 pounds of debris from Islamorada reefs. Not only is this a new record for the most debris removed in one day for the Islamorada shop, located next to Bud N’ Marys, but it also puts the shop just over the 15,000-pound mark for total debris removed. In the three years since the shop began debris removal dives, Key Dives has used the efforts of locals and visitors alike to restore the reefs of this beautiful ecosystem.
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The world’s oceans are in trouble: an estimated 20 billion pounds of plastic trash are dumped in the ocean each year, wreaking havoc on the planet. Now a group of YouTube influencers calling themselves “Team Seas” are working together to stem the flow of trash
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Checking in with organizers of World Cleanup Day and National CleanUp Day: How did they do? The events were held in September for the fifth year in a row.
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GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA: Teluk Bahang beach may be less popular with tourists, but this hasn’t saved the 1km beach from being trashed – literally.
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Chemicals and aircraft parts manufacturer Honeywell International announced this week that it’s come up with a new way to turn low-grade plastic waste into oil that’s high enough quality to be fed into a refinery.
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A longtime family farmer, Tom Pavić is faced with cleaning yet another illegal dump on his farm east of Bakersfield. There, instead of transporting trash and junk to Bena’s landfill, someone decided to use Pavić’s land as his personal dump.
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A small group of volunteers didn’t let cold weather stop them from picking up trash along the streets of Jackson during the final Jackson CleanUp Day on Nov. 20.
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This fall, the New England Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) coordinated with MassWildlife to organize and conduct a clean-up day at Bolton Flats Wildlife Management Area with a group of member volunteers.
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Millcreek Utah was incorporated as a city just five years ago, and has already made great strides in keeping its environment clean. The city’s slogan is Connected By Nature, and the dedication to keeping this connection is clear in the action taken by Millcreek’s citizens and leadership.
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