2012 Cleanup Season is Off to a Great Start!

This past weekend, Save The Bay kicked off our 2012 Cleanup Season and Earth Day. We hosted 6 cleanups during the extended weekend - Providence, Westerly, Bristol, Newport, Conimicut and Rocky Point - and once again were amazed at the incredible turnout from our loyal volunteers and the amount of debris we found!

Some quick numbers for you from the past weekend.

Providence - 166 Volunteers & 2,396 lbs. of debris
Newport - 51 Volunteers & 669 lbs. of debris
Bristol - 38 Volunteers & 813 lbs. of debris
Westerly -55 Volunteers & 989 lbs. of debris
Rocky Point - 113 Volunteers & 1,625 lbs. of debris
Conimicut - 25 Volunteers & 208 lbs. of debris

Some of the crazy items we found:
2 surf boards, a life boat, a shopping cart, an outdoor dining set, interior card door panel, a vat of cooking oil, a propane tank and of course all of the regular small debris.

Thank you to everyone that came out to participate in our earth day cleanups - all 448 of you. Your help ensured that we were able to remove 6,700 lbs. of trash from our coastlines this past weekend.

Missed our cleanups last weekend? Join us in the coming weeks - see what we have going on! Can't make it to one of our cleanups? Visit www.keepriclean.org to see what's happening with other groups in the rest of the state!

Enjoy this video made at our Bristol Cleanup!



Save the Bay Beach Cleanup 4/14/2012 from chris ferreira on Vimeo.