The Petrojam oil refinery in Kingston
September 22, 2015
Turning the tide on trash
The 22nd staging of International Coastal Clean-up (ICC) Day in Jamaica last Saturday, September 19, was one of the biggest local organisers Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) has seen. The NGO doesn’t yet know the total number of volunteers who participated across the island, but by the time the figures are tallied, it will hopefully have surpassed 10,000. Volunteers registered to clean up 120 land and underwater sites. ICC Day was started by US-based Ocean Conservancy in 1985.
SandalsWhitehouse’sphoto shopcustomerservicerepresentativeShermoniqueCampbell andher group ofvolunteers fromthe BeestonSpringcommunityworking thebeach.
Sandals Foundation volunteers from Sandals Whitehouse, Manning’s SchoolKey Club, and residents from the communities of Beeston Spring andWhitehouse, are proud of the 32 bags of garbage they were able to removefrom the San San beach.
ROCKing it!
Flow volunteersare pleased withtheir haul.
Acting mayor of Portmore Leon Thomas was one of the 1,144volunteers who participated in the beach clean-up hosted byNEPA and UDC at Hellshire Bay, St Catherine. Here, he carrieshis load from the weighing station.
Students of Denham Town Primary play their part to make aworld of difference during the Hellshire Bay coastline clean-upon International Coastal Clean-up Day.
Samantha Grant,environmental officer at theNational Environment andPlanning Agency (NEPA),weighs a bag with PET bottles.
Sandals ResortsIntern Jean-BaptisteMartinon waded intothe water to collectplastic bottles.
Sandals Foundation volunteers from Sandals Montego Bay and Sandals Royal Caribbean pausedfor a photo op with what could have been their most unusual find: a laundry trolley.
Sandals Royal Caribbean’s Yone Gayle (left) and EarlCummings work together to clean up sections of DumpUp Beach.
The #Oteam’sfinal haul.
Volunteersfrom theWhitehousearea areclearlyhaving fun asthey struggleto remove aused tyrepartiallyburied in thesand.
