Washington DC Cleanup in Ivy City. This sounds fun and costumes are encouraged.
Read MoreZero Waste Conference 2020 - with Pal Martensson. Lessons from the Amazon: Lungs of the World
Read MoreVolunteers from Uncle Tobys in Wahgunyah recently donned gloves and cleaned up Willows Reserve as part of the Clean Up Australia initiative.
Read MoreThe Friends of Constitution Park in Ossipee, NH will celebrate its accomplishments of the last year with its fall cleanup and maintenance of the park in Ossipee on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 10 a.m. to noon. The day will begin with a celebration of our new pavilion at 10 a.m.
Read MoreMayor Robert Pequeno of Lake Forest, California talks about National CleanUp Day for September 17, 2022.
Read MoreNational CleanUp Day®, in partnership with EARTHDAY.ORG, Keep America Beautiful®, and Let’s Do It World (organizers of World Cleanup Day), will return for its sixth year on Saturday, September 17. Volunteers throughout the country will participate in the removal of trash via thousands of organized cleanups, large and small, throughout the nation.
Read MoreWelcome video for World CleanUp Day by Let’s Do It World Pakistan.
People from around the world in 190+ countries will be cleaning up in their community during September.
Read MoreThe seventh Our Ocean Conference – hosted by the Republic of Palau and the United States –brought together governments and non-state actors to make concrete commitments to protect ocean health and security. The United States announced more than 110 commitments, from 14 agencies and offices, worth nearly $2.64 billion. These commitments spanned the issue areas of the conference, including climate change, sustainable fisheries, sustainable blue economies, marine protected areas, maritime security, and marine pollution.
Read MoreThe Clean Water Act (CWA) is one of the most important environmental protection laws in the United States.
Read MoreTo better understand why plastics don’t biodegrade, let’s start with how plastics are made and how biodegradation works.
Read MoreThe United States should create a national strategy by the end of 2022 to reduce its contribution to plastic waste in the ocean, including substantially reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the U.S., says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Read MoreOver the last couple years, many of us spent a little too much time inside. Working from home, online schooling, and other activities brought on by the global pandemic have completely changed our daily routines. While we all spent time indoors, litter and other waste continued to pile up in many of our public spaces. As 2022 surges on, people around the world have adopted a new hobby that gets us outside while also cleaning up our planet.
Read MoreWater quality affects everyone, whether it’s through the water we drink, recreational water activities, or even wildlife living in or around bodies of water. As a resident of Utah, water here is an even more scarce resource that must be protected from any harmful pollutants. Stormwater runoff pollution occurs when rainwater mixes with litter, chemicals, dirt, and other debris on its journey to a larger water source. While this is an issue around the world, desert states especially do not have any water to waste.
Read MoreThrough the month of May, people around Anchorage will have ample opportunities to pitch in and pick up trash during a community-wide spring cleaning.
Read MoreThrough the month of May, people around Anchorage will have ample opportunities to pitch in and pick up trash during a community-wide spring cleaning.
Read MoreMillions of volunteers showed up around the world for Earth Month to help clean up the planet. Quincy, MA, a town of just over 100,000, had thousands show up to cleanup and beautify their community.
Read MoreApril 22nd was Earth Day. A day to support environmental protection, raise awareness for our consumer behavior and its impact on our planet.
Interesting insight: this annual recurring day exists since 1970! Numerous communities engage in Earth Day-activities, focused on the environmental issues that our world is facing.
On this very day, we also took action! We held a cleanup together with BNP Paribas Fortis. Almost 300 motivated employees took action via different teambuilding activities to make a difference.
Six volunteer divers took to cleaning part of the wreck of the USS Moody that in 1933 made its final plunge for the filming purposes of “Hell Below.” Since then, as with any underwater object protruding from the seabed, the wreck has been accumulating fishing nets, the deadliest form of marine plastic pollution.
Read MoreMillions of people around the world participated in cleanups with their Mayor’s or City Leaders.
Baltimore, MD Mayor Brandon Scott was one of those leaders taking personal actions to support the community. Like many others, this was a city wide effort engaging communities of all backgrounds.
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