As part of World’s Largest Single-Day Beach Cleanup students and volunteers from across Walton County School District will join hundreds of thousands worldwide during Ocean Convervancy’s 33rd International Coastal Cleanup. On September 15, the world’s largest annual single-day volunteer effort to remove trash from local waterways, beaches, lakes and rivers will take place. Since the first ICC 33 years ago, nearly 13 million volunteers have removed nearly 250 million pounds of trash from beaches and waterway worldwide! Come out and join our students and volunteers in their efforts, and “Suit Up to Clean Up!” You can find more information at:
https://oceanconservancy.org/.../international-coastal-clean.../
NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS] Volunteers #SuitUptoCleanup [NUMBER
OF POUNDS/KG] of Trash from [CLEANUP LOCATION] as Part of
World
’
s
Largest Single-Day Beach Cleanup
[YOUR ORGANIZATION] and [CITY/LOCATION] Volunteers Joined Hund
reds of Thousands
Worldwide during Ocean Conservancy
’
s
33
rd
International Coastal Cleanup
[Location, State, Date]
–
Today
,
[NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS] people in [INSERT LOCATION]
participated in Ocean Conservancy
’
s
33
rd
International Coast
al
Cleanup (ICC)
,
the world's largest
single-day volunteer effort to remove trash from local water
ways, beaches, lakes and rivers.
Since the first ICC 33 years ago, nearly 13 million volunt
eers have removed nearly 250 million
pounds of trash from beaches and waterway worldwide. The [CI
TY/LOCATION
]
cleanup comes
just [weeks/days] after [LOCATION]-area beaches closed for the su
mmer.
?
When you #SuitUptoCleanup, you are advancing one of the most
immediate and impactful
solutions to keeping plastics out of the ocean,
?
said [NAME]
,
[ORGANIZATION]
’
s
[TITLE]
,
?
which
is why we are so grateful to all the amazing volunteers who came
out. Awareness has really
grown around the issue of ocean plastic and it
’
s great to see people taking action.
?
In addition to removing [
XX
] [pounds/kgs] of trash from [INSERT LOCATION]
—
including
[UNUSUAL FINDS, IF ANY], volunteers contributed to the world
’
s largest database on marine
debris by logging each trash item in Ocean Conservancy
’
s
Clean Swell app (available for free
download from the
App Store
an
d
Google Play
). Scientists, researchers, industry leaders and
policymakers rely on Ocean Conservancy
’
s Ocean Trash Index to inform policy and determine
solutions to the growing marine debris crisis.
Every year, millions of tons of trash
—
including an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic
waste
—
flow into the ocean, entangling wildlife, polluting beach
es, and costing coastal
municipalities hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. Last
year for the first time all ten of the
top-ten most-collected Items were made of plastic, including c
igarette butts (which contain
plastic filters), plastic bags, plastic beverage bottles, fo
od wrappers, plastic bottle caps and
plastic straws. Plastics
—
which never fully biodegrade but rather break up into smaller
and
