Alabama Coastal Cleanup

31 05, 2019

Learning about the environment with kid-friendly activities

By |2019-05-17T09:40:09+00:00May 31st, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

With warm temperatures and longer days, springtime is the right time to head to the beach! Take your umbrellas, beach chairs, snacks, and drinks — but be sure to Leave Only Footprints when you leave for the day. Family days at the beach can be full of sandcastles, games, and dips in the Gulf. You can make the memories of a lifetime along the white-sand beaches. Children and adults alike love to frolic along the pristine shores and watch the [...]

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21 05, 2019

Recycling and the economy

By |2019-05-17T09:15:12+00:00May 21st, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

It just makes sense to recycle. Or does it? While the planet is in a precarious position of being overused and overwhelmed, more people are waking up to the need to preserve our natural resources. Clearly, we must reduce our use and acceptance of single-use products as a whole, and certainly, we can decrease our dependence on plastic. But did you know that recycling makes dollars and sense? In comparison to making a product out of new vs. recycled materials, [...]

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19 12, 2018

Support organizations fighting ocean pollution

By |2018-12-19T14:47:18+00:00December 19th, 2018|Blog|0 Comments

Looking for nonprofits to support during this season of giving? Below is a list of environmental groups that work to keep pollution out of the Gulf of Mexico and our local waterways. Those efforts are not free, but they are absolutely worthwhile. Each of these groups would be most appreciative of your gift to help keep our coastal environment pristine and protected. Alabama Coastal Cleanup is held each September at multiple sites. This one-day brings volunteers, state agencies, municipalities and [...]

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5 09, 2018

Participate in Alabama Coastal Cleanup

By |2018-09-05T12:52:31+00:00September 5th, 2018|Blog|0 Comments

We’re coming up on the 31st Annual Alabama Coastal Cleanup, the day our community and visitors come out to actively clean up those beaches and waterways we enjoy year-round. Whether it’s just you or your church group, family or organization, we need your help. Come lend a hand to pick up debris from Alabama’s coastal waterways and beaches on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, from 8 a.m. to noon. You’ll be among the 87,000+ volunteers who have assisted in this event [...]

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1 11, 2017

Recycling efforts come to the Alabama Coastal Cleanup

By |2017-11-01T19:46:08+00:00November 1st, 2017|Blog|0 Comments

We want to give a big shout-out to the thousands of volunteers who converged at check-in sites across South Alabama on Sept. 16 for the 30th year of the Alabama Coastal Cleanup. It’s an incredible effort by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, municipalities, business sponsors and volunteers to keep our coastal areas and waterways clean. Organizers partnered with TerraCycle and Thompson Engineering to include recycling in this year’s cleanup. Volunteers received two bags - one for trash, [...]

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23 08, 2017

Help clean the beach during the Alabama Coastal Cleanup

By |2017-08-23T13:56:11+00:00August 23rd, 2017|Blog|0 Comments

Want to help keep the coast clean? Be a part of the massive Alabama Coastal Cleanup effort held on Sept. 16. Over the past 30 years, 83,000 volunteers have removed more than 1.5 million pounds of trash from our beautiful coastline and waterways. The first step is to look at the online calendar for times and contact a zone captain in your area to register. But if you don’t register in advance, no worries. Those zones have check-in sites around [...]

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16 11, 2016

Easy ways to clean up the beach

By |2017-12-20T04:33:15+00:00November 16th, 2016|Blog|0 Comments

Don’t know how to help keep our beaches clean?  Let’s start with: If you take it to the beach, take it back with you. Throw your trash in the cans provided. Don’t leave behind plastic bottles, food wrappers, diapers, or even cigarette butts. There are some things not allowed on Alabama beaches, such as glass containers, metal shovels, litter, tents or structures larger than 10 feet by 10 feet, fireworks and fires. And overnight camping is prohibited.  The Alabama Coastal [...]

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21 10, 2016

Facts about Ocean Trash

By |2016-10-21T00:38:23+00:00October 21st, 2016|Blog|1 Comment

Creating trash-free seas is becoming more challenging each year because of the steady stream of plastic flowing into the world’s oceans. In 2015, the journal Science estimated between 5 and 14 million tons of plastic annually are found in the ocean. Stemming the tide of plastic flowing into the ocean is a necessity for the more than 2.6 billion people who rely on the ocean as a primary source of protein. Leave Only Footprints, the initiative adopted by Gulf Shores [...]

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28 09, 2016

Safely picking up beach trash

By |2017-12-20T04:33:15+00:00September 28th, 2016|Blog|0 Comments

Comfortable shoes and sunscreen. Those are two of the items volunteers used to create a trash-free Alabama Gulf Coast. Hats, gloves, water and trash bags are also items that came in handy when cleaning the beach. The Alabama Coastal Cleanup, held in conjunction with the International Coastal Cleanup, was Sept. 17, 2016. In Baldwin County that day, volunteers were asked to help collect trash and debris toward the goal of creating a healthy coastline and ocean. In its 28-year history, the [...]

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