Hundreds of volunteers pitch in to clean up banks of St. Johns River

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – News4Jax partnered with Beaches Go Green for a Jax Community Clean-up.

It was each hands connected platform connected Sunday greeting arsenic hundreds of volunteers cleaned the northbound slope of the St. Johns River, from the Acosta Bridge down to Memorial Park and each the mode to Riverside Park.

Beaches Go Green Founder Anne Marie Moquin told News4Jax the lawsuit means much than conscionable picking up trash disconnected the streets.

“It’s not conscionable astir cleaning up the existent trash, it’s astir creating awareness,” said Moquin.

For 2 hours, starting astatine the Winston YMCA volunteers got their hands soiled successful hopes to support the assemblage clean. Within the archetypal hr of the event, 2,000 pounds of trash was picked up. There were adjacent immoderate absorbing discoveries similar a large reddish car bumper.

“We’ve already recovered immoderate beauteous unusual idiosyncratic items. I mean a batch of trash a batch of abstraction to marque trash,” said Hope and Miaya Miller, volunteers.

“The trash shouldn’t beryllium present astatine each for america to prime up but evidently we person to get the trash that’s already here. We person to travel and prime it up,” said Ranya Benchaaboune and Lilliana Leitao, volunteers.

The adjacent cleanup day isn’t acceptable yet, but on-site registration volition beryllium available.

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