Coastal cleanup volunteers

Coastal cleanup volunteers (WJXT)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Instead of sleeping successful this morning, volunteers spent Saturday cleaning up Reddie Point Preserve and Hanna Park.

The 2 cleanups successful Duval County were successful concern with the Timucuan Parks Foundation arsenic portion of the 2021 Florida Coastal Cleanup.

Timucuan Parks Foundation unpaid Charles Clossmen participates each year.

“I privation radical to cognize they tin marque a difference. We travel retired present and we signifier a radical of volunteers to prime up litter. It supports the section and nationalist parks successful the Jacksonville area,” Clossmen said.

Instead of sleeping successful this morning, volunteers spent Saturday cleaning up Reddie Point Preserve and Hanna Park.
Instead of sleeping successful this morning, volunteers spent Saturday cleaning up Reddie Point Preserve and Hanna Park.

Volunteers helped cleanable up trash on the coastline from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. For precocious schoolhouse elder Arielle Charles this is much than unpaid work, it’s protecting the planet.

“I consciousness similar we person to truly assistance out. We lone person 1 Earth,” Charles said.

The yearly cleanups are successful concern with the metropolis of Jacksonville and Keep Jacksonville Beautiful.

Each year, volunteers prime up things similar integrative bottles, vessel caps, straws, nutrient wrappers and cigaret butts from the shorelines that could origin large problems for wildlife and the ecosystem.

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J.P. Brooker, manager of the Florida Conservation connected the Ocean Conservancy, joins america to sermon the statewide efforts that spell into these formation clean-ups and wherefore they are truthful important.
J.P. Brooker, manager of the Florida Conservation connected the Ocean Conservancy, joins america to sermon the statewide efforts that spell into these formation clean-ups and wherefore they are truthful important.

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