The Sandals Foundation invited volunteers across Grenada, Curacao, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Antigua, and St Lucia, this weekend to clear thousands of pounds of garbage from the region’s coastlines, joining one of the world’s largest volunteer missions, International Coastal Clean-up Day (ICCD) marked annually on 16 September.
The effort brings welcomed relief to the island’s marine ecosystem and the overall health of our beaches. Below are highlights of team Grenada’s clean up at Soubise, St Andrew, where 473 pounds of mainly plastic waste was retrieved.
Sandals Grenada volunteers were accompanied by community volunteers from the area, St Joseph’s Convent, (Grenville) Environment Club, St Andrew’s RC Primary School Brownies, Grenada Fund for Conservation, and Grenada Artificial Reef Project.
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Year after year is the same old story of garbage on our coastline and beaches which is now an everyday topic.
My suggestion is we treat plastic the same way we treat beer and Malt bottles so that the users are given an incentive to dispose of them.
We the users will not throw them away in places such as the sea/river but return them for a refund or discount on a next purchase.