International Coastal Cleanup

On September 16th, 16 volunteers from the River Institute and St. Lawrence College’s Environmental Technician Program participated in the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. The Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup is the world’s largest volunteer event of its kind. Last year, 378,000 volunteers from 76 countries and 45 states cleared six million pounds of trash from oceans and waterways and recorded every piece of trash collected. Some of the more obscure items collected from this year’s cleanup along the St. Lawrence’s shoreline included a trampoline, shopping cart and television. Overall 12 bags of garbage and recycling were collected in the local, hour long clean-up.