Create an event on Facebook and ask volunteers to sign up online. Recruit friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors. Clearly label that it contains hazardous waste. One solution: A wide-mouth container with a tight-fitting lid, such as an empty laundry detergent bottle. Determine how you’ll dispose of any medical and sewage waste you might find. Ask a local solid waste hauler to donate their services for trash removal. Contact local businesses for donations of drinks, food, and supplies. Reach out to recyclers in your area (and perhaps your community’s solid waste departments) to make arrangements for accepting any glass, plastic, and aluminum that you collect. You should also provide (or ask volunteers to bring) items such as reusable work/garden gloves, reusable water bottles, sunscreen, and bug spray. Depending on your location, you’ll need supplies such as trash bags, a first aid kit, hand sanitizer, wipes, and large coolers of water. The coordinator will need to know where to set up a volunteer check-in station, where to leave trash and recyclables, and what area(s) volunteers will clean. You can use NEEF's NPLD Site Manager guide for best practices for organizing volunteer events. (That might be you!) A beach clean-up takes a lot of work and needs an organized person to keep everything on track before, during, and after the event. Get permission, if needed, for your clean-up event, perhaps from the local parks agency. Choose a place that needs some TLC, making sure that volunteers can safely access the site. But where do you even begin? Follow these tips to get started.
In 2007, the United States Senate and House of Representatives passed the National Clean Beaches Week Resolution to recognize the value of beaches to the American way of life and the important contributions of beaches to the economy, recreation, and natural environment of the United States.Ĭlean Beaches Week, celebrated annually in July, offers the perfect opportunity to encourage stewardship and volunteerism along our coastlines. Headed to the beach this summer for some sun and surf? Make sure it’s a safe, healthy place to visit by spearheading a beach clean-up.
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