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Updated: 7:38 AM Sep 19, 2011
International Coastal Clean-Up Day
Destin- The Ocean Conservancy's 26th annual International Coastal Clean-up event was held across communities worldwide Saturday.
Posted: 8:13 AM Sep 18, 2011Reporter: Meagan O'Halloran Email Address: meagan.ohalloran@wjhg.com  Coastal Clean Up |
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It's no secret we have beautiful beaches, and hundreds of local volunteers are trying to keep it that way.
The Ocean Conservancy's 26th annual International Coastal Clean-up event was held across communities worldwide Saturday. The citizens helping clear our coastlines are just a handful of the millions of volunteers taking action to promote global change.
It's not something you see everyday, but one-by-one, volunteers are making a difference.
"It's a nice day to be out here to take it easy, pick up some trash" says local resident Scott Finn.
They're picking up things like cigarette butts and dirty diapers. Everything that is found is recorded as data for a global report studying the impact of harmful trash from the coastlines and how it effects humans, wildlife and even the economy. Over the past 25 years, nearly 9-million volunteers from over 152 countries have cleaned 145-million pounds of trash from the shores of lakes, streams, rivers, and the ocean on just one day each year.
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There are 11 states with bottle/container deposit laws; they are all in the North, plus Hawaii. The South, with the exclusion of tourist/beach zones and gated communities, is awash in trash. It's a darn shame, since picking up bottles along roadsides would clean up this part of the country and bring income to bottle and can collectors. Apparently however, Florida legislators bow as always to business and to bottle companies that vigorously oppose any such laws, to the detriment of the environment and opportunity for those willing to collect the containers.
They would not need to do this if they De-Regulate the oil companies.
