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REPORT ON 1990 FLORIDA BEACH CLEANUP Center for Marine Conservation January 1991 Funds for this project were provided by the Department of Environmental Regulation, Office of Coastal Management using .funds made available through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended. Jan. 30, 1991 1990 Florida Coastal Cleanup Heidi B. Lovett & C. Edward Proffitt, Ph. D. CM The Center For Marine Conservation One.Beach Drive NA90AA-H-CZ809 Suite 304 St. Petersburg, FL 33701 U.S. Dept. of Commerce/NOAA Dept,. of Env. Reg. Final OCRM Coastal Management 1825 Connecticut A., N.W. 2600 Blair Stone Rd. Washington D.C. 20235 Tallahassee, FL 32399 Final Report prepared by Heidi Lovett, assisted by Gina Ruiz. Further results will be published in the 1990 Natiional Beach Cleanup Report and future Coastal Connections Newsletter, all published by CMC's National Office On September 23, 1990 the Center for Marine Conservation coordinated the 4th statewide Florida Coastal Cleanup. The event was the largest ever of its kind in history attracting 18,431 participants. These volunteers cleaned approx. 200 tons of debris-from 1,050 miles of Florida beaches, estuaries, mangrove islands, shallow waters, aid coral reefs. Much of the glass, aluminum, and plastic containers, as well as monofilament fishing line collected was recycle A total 704,780 items were collected and r ecorded on data cards. Plastic and styrofoam items combined comprised nearly 64 % of the total. This percentage has remained relatively constant throughout all of the statewide cleanups sinc 1988. At least 15 individual animals (4 fish, 9 birds and 2 crabs) were found entangled in monofilament fishing line or discarded fishing nets. Initial results also show that at least 78 items found on our beaches hailed from 27 different countries, and another minimum 27 items bore the logos or names of 8 cruise lines. There was a significant decrease (44 %) in the amount of monofilament that was collected this year as compared to 1989. Yet it still is equivalent to 260 miles of line. The Coastal Cleanup is a significant event, not only because of its immediate, short-term result --- a cleaner Florida coastline, bu t because it promotes long term behavior changes through data collection and education on the marine debris problem. The participants in the event witness first hand the large amount and variety of debris items found on our coasts. In addition through education an media, the general public and policy makers learn about this important issue. Coastal zone management/Coastal program issues/Marine debris problems/ Active participation & education Release unlimited Unclassified CMC 1725 DeSales ST. N W, Washington, D.C. 20036 THE 1990 FLORIDA COASTAL CLEANUP FINAL REPORT TO DER (WITH PRELIMINARY RESULTS) DER Contract No. CM-271 CENTER FOR MARINE CONSERVATION One Beach Drive SE, Suite 304, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 Table of Contents Page Executive Summary 1 Organizing, The Year in Review 3 Coordination Training Zone Captains and Site Coordinators 4 Workin'c'with the Media and Announcing the Cleanup 5 Recycling 6 The Results 7 Conclusion 8 Budget 10 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On September 23, 1990 the Center for Marine Conservation coordinated the fourth statewide Florida Coastal Cleanup. The event was the largest ever of its kind in history, attracting 18,431 participants. These volunteers cleaned approximately 200 tons of debris from 1,050 miles of Florida beaches, estuaries, mangrove islands, shallow waters, and coral reefs. Much of the class, aluminum, and plastic containers, as well as monofilament fishing, line collected was-recycled. The Coastal Cleanup is a significant event., not only because of its.immediat.e, short-term result--a cleaner Florida coastline--but because it promotes long term behavior chan-@es through data collection C> n and education on the marine debris problem, The participants in the event witness f irsthand the large amount and variety of debris items found on our coasts. In addition, through school and public education programs and through media activities, the general public and the state s policy makers become aware of this import-ant issue. The.Center worked with approximately 71 "Zone Captains" in 34 of Florida's 35 coastal counties, At least 11 of these Zone Captains were.new, and thus were trained. by the Center. Many old and new Zone Captains increased the number of cleanup sights for which they were responsible, making it possible to cover more miles than in last. year's event.-. Coordination of cleanups in coastal state parks and recreation areas was also expanded, through the cooperative efforts of the Genter and the Florida bepartment of Natural Resources, A total 704,780 items were collected and recorded on data cards by category. Plastic and polystyrene (,---,tyrofoam) items combined comprised nearly 64% of the total. This percentage has remained relatively constant, throughout all the statewide cleanups in Florida since 1988. At least 32 birds, 12 sea turtles, -and and assortment of rays, crabs, and fish were found dead during the cleanup, Of these, 15 individual animals (4 fish, 9 birds, and 2 cra*bs) were found entangled in monofilament fishing line or discarded fishing net.s. Initial results also show that at least 78 items found on our beaches ha iled from 27 different. countries, and another minimum 27 items.bore the logos or names of 8 cruise lines. ApproNimaf-ely 260 miles of monofilament fishing line was around the state, This represents a decrease of 44% from- the amount collerted last year. This decrease suggests that the edticational campaign concerning the dangers of monofilament, conducted by the Center for Marine Conservation and other organizations, is having a positive effect on the recreational fishermen and women in the state. ORGANIZING, THE YEAR IN REVIEW COORDINATION The Center for Marine Conservation began planning for the 1990 Coastal Cleanup in earnest by January 1990. Disci issions were held with most of the "old" Zone Captains to gauge their interest in continuing in that role. Simultaneously, new Zone Captains were sought in areas where there was a vacancy and in new areas of the state where there had been no previous direct, involvement. During this period, staff at the C enter also became engaged in assisting with spring coastal cleanups. The Center had not planned on a spring statewide cl.eanup, however it was expected by some since we had held one in 1989. In somf- cases the cleanups were a part. of Earth Day 1990 events. The positive outcome of these spring cleanups and other related events was an increase in requests for educational information concerning m-ar'ine debris.. Though CMC staff could only physically be at. three individual Earth Day events, our materials were at many more around the state, In addition to information about. the dangers, of marine debris, the g@eneral public was given early notice of the statewide cleanup that would occiir on September 23., 1990, The Steering Committee for the coastal cleanups met on May 24 to solidify the plan for the cleanup. Primarily, program expansion was discussed how to involve more organizations and individuals, and if any new materials should he developed. One decision was to include in the cleanup brochure information about the accomplishments that coastal cleanups have helped to bring about (please see enclosure), It was also agreed that all materials should be printed on recycled paper, Most of the materials printed for the cleanup were designed, produced, and distributed by the CMC staff in Florida. This included the brochure, poster, hats (for Zone Captains and their site coordinators) and the "Special Area" designation petition. The data cards and the data guides (poster form this year) were produced by CMC's National Beach Cleanup Program, but, were distributed through the Florida Office, along with the pencils that were donated by FaberCastell, Trash bags were donated by GLAD Wrap and Bags, who also took care of most of the shipping costs for the bags. To assist the public in finding their local coordinator and/or to give out specific information about the cleanup sites in their area, the center established a toll free phone number, 1-800-CMC-FLORida. TRAINING ZONE CAPTAINS AND SITE COORDINATORS The "training" that goes on for Zone Captains is done over the phone, in individuals meetings around the state, and through "packets" that are developed and mailed by the state coordinator on a regular basis over at least a six month period leading up to the cleanup. This year all Zone Captains received a CMC manual "All About Beach Cleanups and new Zone Captains received "A Citizen's Guide to Plastics in the Ocean," another CMC publication. Packets also regularly include press releases, related information such as how to get involved in Coastweeks or get activities listed in the state's Coastweeks calendar and any new ideas. The Zone Captains are encouraged to hold workshops or meetings with their site coordinators to train them on how to fill out data cards, separate trash for recycling, organize a check-in site, how to report stranded animals, and fill out the end report, among other things. WORKING WITH THE MEDIA AND ANNOUNCING THE CLEANUP On May 24 the Center held a kick-off press conference in St. Petersburg that was well attended and picked up around the state by TV, radio, and the press. In addition to releasing the 1989 National Cleanup report, and announcing the September 23 Coastal Cleanup date, the Center launched its "Clean Oceans Campaign" which features the character "Popeye" as the spokesperson, The campaign included a 30 second Public Service Announcement (PSA) spot which was released around the state. It listed a national toll-free number at the end, for more information about, marine debris, Any individual calling from Florida was mailed information and was referred to either the Florida Office's tol-free number or their county's Zone Captain to get more information about the Coastal Cleanup. In the ensuing months, several other press announcements about 5 the cleanup were released and CMC staff and the local coodinators conducted radio, TV, and press interviews and appeared on longer shows to "get the work out" aobut marine debris and the Coastal Cleanup. During the late spring, contact was made with Senator Graham's office in Washington to enlist the Senator's assistance with a PSA specifically about the Florida Coastal Cleanup. A successful PSA was developed and widely distributed around the state, after which time the use of the toll-free number increased dramatically. RECYCLING Recycling is always and important part of the coastal cleanup. The Center distributes the Florida Business and Industry Recycling Program's (BIRP) updated list of recyclers to all Zone Captains early in the year, and encourages them to recycle glass, aluminum, and plastic. When needed, CMC staff assisted individual locla coordinators with their specific plan, such as when there were no recyclers in their immediate area. Most recyclers, such as Waste Management and BFI, among others, were extremely helpful and are repeat participants with the cleanup program. A new twish to recycling this year was an arrangement the Center made with Berekley, a manufacturer of fishing line and tackle. They agreed to accept the collected monofilament fishing line and nets, even if somewhat dirty, to recyle into new fishing-related products. Their recycling program ws new, and they were excited to get involved with coastal cleanups. 6 THE RESULTS Table 1 (a-d) is a list by counties of all the debris items collected and recorded on the standard CMC data card. Statewide total of individual items are listed to the far right of pages 1 (b) and 1 (d). Total items recorded by county or "zone" are listed at the bottom pf pages 1(c) and 1 (d). Below is the total number of items per category, and their percent of the total: ITEM QUANTITY PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL plastics 349,995 49.66 Styrofoam 99,899 14.17 Glass 72,777 10.33 Rubber 10,436 1.48 Metal 83,890 11.90 Paper 62,260 8.83 Wood 17,538 2.49 Cloth 7,985 1.13 Total 704,780 99.99 Plastics and sytrofoam cobined equal 63.83% of the total number of items collected. This value has remained fairly constant through all four statewide coastal cleanups. This suggests that packaging in Florida and/or the customer's choise of packaging has not changed much over the last three years (most debris items are some sort of package material). The data has to be looked at in more detail before any conclusions can be made. 7 In contrast, there was a large decrease in the reported amount of monofilament fishing line that was collected this year compared to last year. Approximately 260 miles of monofilament was collected. This is a 44% decrease from the 467 miles collected in 1989. This decrease suggests that the educational campaign concerning the dangers of monofilament to wildlife has had a positive effect on the habits of fishermen and women around Florida. table 2 lists the numbers of volunteers, miles they covered, the total weight of the debris collected, and the total number of items listed on the data cards by county, beginning in the northeast part of Florida and continuing around the Panhandle. CONCLUSION The 1990 statewide Florida Coastal Cleanup was a highly successful event. Participation jumped by 26% since the 1989 Coastal Cleanup to reach 18,431, and an additional 139 more miles were covered. In fact, if ot for the unfortunate sewage spills in Palm Beach County which kept potential volunteers away, we feel confident that participation in Florida would have topped the anticipated 20,000 mark (in 1989 Palm beach had 2500 volunteers, in 1990 only 1056). In additin, the requests for marine debris information from students and people of all ages throughout Florida, as well as from a wide variety of Florida organizations has increased dramatically. This all points to an increase in public awareness and concern about the marine debris problem--a concern that is significant enough that the public wants to actively do something about it. 8 The Center for Marine Conservation hopes to expand the annual statewide cleanups to include even more user groups (involve statewide and local boating and fishing organizations more), civic clubs, chambers, businesses, scouts, and schools. Though the cleanups have covered 1000 miles or more, there remains another 8000 miles that have yet to be cleaned of debris, and many communities that have not been involved. In addition, programs such as Adopt-A-Shore, Boater's Pledge, and others are supported by the Center and considered necessary to further educate the public, in particular those not yet aware of the marine debris issue. 9 BUDGET FOR THE 1990 FLORIDA, CO.ASTAL CLEANUP For October 1989 Through December 1990 ACCT.CODE. EXPENSE DEBIT CREDIT 40009 Foundation Grants. 26000.00 40010 Individual Gra nts 600.00 40011 Corporate Grants 15800.00 40012 Governmental Grants 25567.00 40021 Pro.c. Receivable Income 20833.00 50002 List Rentals & Exchanges 76.20 50010 Art/Typesetting-DM 171.77 50012- Mettings & Conferences 502.14 50015 Overhead 20244.71 50020 Salaries'-_& Wages 38107.18 50026 Travel & Entertainment 2515.70 50028 Telephone 4855.04 50030 Audio Visuals 554.03 50031 Advertising 194.37 50033 Rent 4322.34 50034 Postage 312.39 830.65 50035 Freight & Messenger 2236.80 50036 Printing 5016.93 50037 Typesetting 68.10 - 50038 Publications 122.00 50039 Subscriptions & Dues 32.40 50040 Insurance-Other 120.00 50043 Consultant .5071.24 50044 Temporary Help 1841.50 50048 Office Supplies 1470 * 67 50051 Maintenance & Repairs 787.95 50053 Miscellaneous 340.02 50054 Public Relations (Hats) 3080.34 Total Florida Coastal Cleanup 92043.82 .89630.6.5 T86LE I 1990 National Beach'Cleanup 0k LORIDA ',,4k :F Raw Data S usla IF UWI St Duval Johns Flagler Volusia Brevard River Lucie Martin Beach Broward Dade Monroe, Collier Lee Charlotte Sarasbta Hillsborough ------------------------- ------- - --------------------------------- - --------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------ ASIK . .I I.. @ . @ . .. .1 . `i:p@ , .. i@ - , - . . . . :1 r i @ @@ , , , , r, , , ,. ---- - - . 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Lucie 602 10.0 6425 24966 Martin 1213 7.0 32665 28882 Palm Beach 1056 42.0 1.5000 20291 Broward 15-35 32.3 13300 79924 Dade 1378 57.8 13495 83550 ---------------------------------------------------------- Monroe Keys 388 1910 17027 30185 Dry Tortugas 30 2.3 1656 included ---------------------------------------------------- a bov e-- Collier 397 80.0 5932 15484 Lee 1000 40.0 12000 20802 Charlotte 435 48.0 6610 10733 Sarasota 154 12.5 610 3053-5) Manatee 435 43.0 13200 Hillsborough 2400 '70.0 60410 37368 Pinellas 1583 160.0 86720 71913 Pasco West. 524 30.0 7160 14128 Hernando Coast 14 ? 245 519 Citrus 630 42.0 18660 22941 Dixie 28 4.0 400 2331 Taylor 56 3.0 4100 5747 Jefferson 9 4.0 50, 20.5 Wakulla 337 27.0 6361 1.5277 ---------------------------------------------------------- Franklin 163 17,0 812 10018 Gulf 36 12.0 1268 2306 Bay Panhandle 362 1910 5192 25641 Walton 33 A.o 194 2911 Okaloosa 235 1318 4000 12462 Santa, Rosa 332 13.0 2810 28647 Escambia 595 4.5.0 12680 16437 ---------------------------------------------------------- Totals 18413 1047.95 399667 704780 By Region East, Coast 8237 3.37.4 131570 328190 Keys 418 1L.1.2-5) 18683 3018.5 West Coast 8002 222458 047983 Panhandle 1756 1255,8 269-56 98429, Center for Marine Conservation Formerly Center for Environmental Education. Est. 1972 Contact: Gina Ruiz IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 22, 1990 (813) 895-2188 OVER 18,400 FLORIDIANS MAKE SEPTEMBER'S BEACH CLEANUP NATION'S LARGEST (St. Petersburg) ... The third Florida Coastal Cleanup, organized by the Center for Marine Conservation (CMC), held the morning of September 22, was the largest single state cleanup ever, in the nation's history. Over 18,400 volunteers scoured 1,047 miles of Florida beaches. And over 399,000 pounds of debris were picked Lip and catalogued for the Center's 1990 report to be released next spring. Gina Ruiz and Dr. Edward Proffitt of the Center's Florida office applaud the many citizens of the state and the many organizations and individuals who supported this year's cleanup. Ruiz said, "Floridians can hold their heads high as turnout for this past September's cleanup was phenomenal. The people of Florida realized that in many ways, the future of this state, both economically and environmentally, are tied to clean coasts and beaches. What is encouraging is that a statewide commitment exists to protect our valuable coastal resources and the wildlife that frequent and inhabit our shores." The Center for Marine Conservation is the leading organization dedicated solely to the protection of marine and coastal wildlife and their habitats. The Center's headquarters is in Washington, D.C. with, regional offices in Hampton, Virginia; St. Petersbut-g, Florida; Austin, Texas; San Francisco, California; and Cambridge, England. One Beach Drive, SE, Suite 304 0 St. Petersburg, FL 33701 * (813) 895-2188, 895-3248 1725 DeSales Street, NW e Washington, DC 20036 PRELIMINARY RESULTS .FOR THE FALL CLEANUP 1990 COUNTIES YOLUNTEERS MILES POUNDS ALACHUA 45 5 72 BAY 362 19 6j192 BROWARD 1,535 32:.3 13,300 BREVARD 600 50 4,081 CHARLOTTE 453 48 6,609.5 CITRUS .630 42 18,660 @COLLIER. 397 80 5,931.75 DADE 1,378 57.8 13,495 DIXIE 28 4 400 DRY TORTUGAS 30 2.25 1,656 DUVAL 397 39.5 35,919 ESCAMBIA 595 45 12,680 FLAGER 83 18 980 FRANKLIN 163 17 812 GULF 36 12 1,268 HERNANDO 14 245 HILLSBOROUGH 2,400 70 60,410 INDIAN-RIVER 636 32 JEFFERSON 9 4 50 LEE 19000 40 12,000 MANATEE 435 43 13,20 -0 MARTIN 1,213 7 32,665 MONROE 388 19 17,027 NASSAU 63 16.3 800 OKALOOSA 235 13.8 4,000 ORANGE ? ? ? PALM BEACH 1,056. 42 15,000 PASCO 524 30 7,160 PINELLAS -->l 583 16 0 -;86,720 SANTA ROSA 332 13 2,810 SARASOTA 154 12.5 610 ST. JOHN 123 11 1,812 ST. LUCIE 602 10 6,425 TAYLOR 56 3 4,100 VOLUSIA 506 16.5 2,321 WAKULLA 337 27 6,361 WALTON 33 6 194 TOTALS 18,431 1,047.95 399,666.25 (181.6 TONS) Preliminary Florida cleanup statistics Dead animals 324 fish 32 birds 26 rays 12 sea turtles 7 crabs Dead animals who were entangled in monofilament 4 fish 9 birds 2 crabs Medical Debris 209 items -- 169 syringes 6 IV bags 34 other Pounds of Monofilament = 374.95 lbs Foreign Countries Australia 1 B ra z i1 1 B ri ta i n 2 Canada 3 China 2 Columbia 1 Costa Rica 1 Chek 1 Denmark 2 Dominican Re p 1 France 6 Germany 9 Greece 3 Guatemala 1 Holland 2 India 1 I t a I y 2 Jamacia 1 Japan 6 M al a y s ia 1 Mexico 2 No rway 2 Sand Bruno 1 S pa i n 1 USSR 1 Venezuela 15 Y u g o s la v i a 1 Totai 78 items from 27 countries 1 Cruise Lines Caribbean Cruise 1 Carnival 4 Commodore 4 Emerald Green 1 Fantasy 1 Fun Ships 7 Glass Bottom 1 Royal Caribbean 1 Royal Carnival 6 Windjammer 1 Total 27 items from at least 10 vessels Center for Marine Conservation Formerly Center for Environmental Education. Est 1972 Contact: Patty Debenham or Tom Miller FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (202) 429-5609 NOVEMBER 9, 1990 Lisa Younger (804) 851-6734 FALL 1990 INTERNATIONAL BEACH CLEANUP DRAWS OVER 100,000 (Washington, D.C.) ... Early results are in and the 1990 fall international beach cleanup was a tremendous success. Over 100,000 participants volunteered their time! for cleaner beaches while helping the Ce.nter for Marine Conservation (CMC:) collect valuable information on beach debris. Cleanup volunteers documented every scrap of trash collected to assist policymakers in solving this international problem, while fingering those who violate anti-pollution laws along our coasts and at sea. Patty Debenham, coordinator of the national beach cleanup for the Center, called the turnout a confirmation of the worldwide concern over the plight of our coasts and beaches. "From Alabama to Alaska, and from Canada to Japan, people have taken it upon themselves to rid our coasts and beaches of deadly trash, trash that kills wildlife by the tens of thousands every year." According to Lisa Younger, CMC's national database coordinator, "What is really encouraging is that public awareness and concern are now worldwide as Japan, Taiwan, and Guatemala held cleanups for the first time this year." Continued Younger, "This truly is an international problem which requires cooperative international solutions. We urge all coastal nations to vigorously pursue and, more importantly, prosecute all oolluters in national and international waters. Finally, the United States needs to take the lead and increase enforcement monies for the U.S. Coast Guard and set a standard for the rest of the world to -1:`ollow." -over- 172 5 DeSales Street NW V&shington, D.C 20016 (202) 429-5609 Talefax (202) 872-0619 Preliminary results show that Florida,- California, and Texas held the largest cleanups. As the enclosed fact sheet reveals, trash was picked-up and catalogued on CMC data cards along 3,000 miles of beach. The data will be compiled state-by-state and-country-by-country, and the results made public prior to Memorial Day 1991. The data results will then be made available to local and national policymakers throughout the world. From this information, we can better understand the scope of the problem, seek to prosecute violators, and propose solutions to this growing marine problem. The National Beach Cleanup, part of CMCs Clean Ocean Campaign,,it supported by the Center's 110,000 members and special contributions from the Environmental Protection Agency; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; the Council for Solid Waste Solutions ( a division of the Society of the Plastics Industry); Dow Chemical Co., Kettering Family Fund; NAPCOR; Patagonia; Professional Association of Underwater Instructors; Fathom Cologne; Amoco Foundation; Faber Castell Pencils, GLAD bags; and 7- Eleven stores. Lastly, CMC greatly appreciates involvement from King Features, who has allowed us to use Popeye the Sailor as the.official mascot of the Clean Ocean Campaign. The Center for Marine Conservation is tn'*e leading organization dedicated solely to the protection of marine wildlife and their habitats. The Center's headquarters is in Washington, D.C. with regional offices in Hampton, Virginia; St. Petersburg, Florida; Austin, Texas; San Francisco, California; and Cambridge, England. -Cmc- Center for Marine Conservation PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM 1990 NATIONAL BEACH CLEANUP STATE NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS MILES OF BEACH CLEANED POUNDS COLLECTED ALABAMA 2,618 62 14,340 CALIFORNIA 16,122 368 250,834 CONNECTICUT 751 41 20,130 DELAWARE 3,500 72 30,116 FLORIDA 18,431 1,048 399,666 GEORGIA 200 25 16,000 HAWAII 5,000 ILLINOIS 77 0.75 771 INDIANA 13 0.5 230 LOUISIANA 6,000 76 250,000 MAINE 2,026 115 20,335 MARYLAND 734 46 32,613 MASSACHUSETTS 4,200 200 70,000 MISSISSIPPI 1,814 106 44,000 NEW HAMPSHIRE 491 14 10,520 NEWJERSEY 200 6 2,000 NEW YORK 2,800 71 84;000 NORTH CAROLINA 10,000 350 330,000 OREGON 2,665 120 43,200 PENNSYLVANIA 74 4 742 PUERTO RICO RHODE ISLAND 1,100 25 20,000 SOUTH CAROLINA 3,262 71,069 TEXAS 15,822 186 466,540 VIRGINIA Ocean Beaches 220 20 25,000 Chesapeake Bay 830 27 9,079 VIRGIN ISLANDS 150 0.25 30,000 WASHINGTON Ocean Beaches 850 60 176"000 Puget Sound 2,288 33 29,400 INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION CANADA New Brunswick 439 14 24,317 JAPAN 700 MEXICO 350 7 4,000 TOTALS 103,727 3,097.5 2,474,902 - denotes information not yet available 172 5 DeSales Snet, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 429-5609 Telefax (202) 872-0619 Drinted on recycled paper FLORIDA Z L@ F2: - @ A,@,,- N U P, %: r -jl'@:, 5.. @7 1@4 4 J0,0110 !5Q6jQy,:l'..)e'L 2201990 9AKN06@.,@:.- p Center for Marine Conserval Ion By Wendy Fullerton News-Press Staff Writer Amid sunbathers and swimmers, the beaches were filled Saturday with trash pok- ers and pickers. As part of the Fourth Annual National Coastal Cleanup Day, more than 100 people turned out for a glorious morning filled with "garbage". From Lovers Key and Bonita Beach to Naples pier and Marco Island, clear, plastic Glad bags became filled with cigarett butts, soda and beer cans, shoes, and even tires, mud flaps and a pair of ladies stockings. In Naples, the majority of debris picked up was cigarette butts, according to Ri Tarn- pilli, one of the participants. "They ought to give a rebate for butts, maybe people would take them with them when they leave" she said. Tranpolli and her husband, Mike, cov- ered a half-mile of beach near Naples Pier. having just moved to Naples from Con- necticut because of their love of the environ- ment, they felt they should take part in the cleanup. "We though it would be proper to share and take care of it," said the avid beachgoers. Collier County's coordinators were the Conservancy and the Everglades National Park. Clad in gloves, Clarence Banister, a Boni- ta Springs resident, combed through the grass and waters of Fish Trap Bridge with a plastic piker, spearing cans and paper prod- ucts wherever he saw them. A 1,000-pound scale awaiting bags of gar- bage sat in the parking lot at Bonita Beach. New Pass seemed to be the area that had the most debris. More than four truckloads of garbage were brought back for weighing. The biggest find for the day could not be lifted by one man along. A broken, barnacied boat was marked and a truck was sent to pick it up. With the state slogan, "take pride gulf wide", the Citizens Association of Bonita Beach (CABB) coordinated cleanup for 20 miles of beach and passes in south Lee Coun- ty and north Collier County. The Naples Boys Scout Troop 38 gave up a weekend of camping to participate in the cleanup. Lee County Commissioner Ray Judah staked out Lovers Key as his cleanup territo- ry. Other officials who attended included Lee County commissioners Doug St. Cerny and Bill Fussell and State Rep. Tim Ireland, R-Cape Coral. CABB president Marge Ward attributes her organization's efforts to Fussell, who led the commission to keep fees off the beach in 1985. Ward had attended that meeting and stated that they would clean the beach and Fussell said that they've been "true to their work," out there 365 days of the year. Volunteers from both counties collected and recorded the amounts and types of de bris to provide research information on the origin and types of garbage found on Flor- ida's beaches. All of the information is then placed into a book of data and information by the Center for Marine Conservation. Ward said she had just received the book from the 1989 clean- up. Volunteers at Bonita Beach were awarded at lunchtime with hot dogs and hamburgers donated and cooked by McCul- lly's Rooftop Restaurant owner Joe McCully. King Bigelow, manager of the Bonita Beach Road Domino's, donated pizza for the hungry garbage-pokers. Publix and Florida Choice also pitched in with food. All of the aluminum that was found will be recycled and the money will be given to the Supporters of Delnot-Wiggins Pass, an organization that benefits the state park. The amount of garbage had not been totalled Saturday. Ward said that it would probably take all day Sunday to do. Last year, more than 16,000 pounds of debris was collected in Lee and Collier coun- ties. > I Cl) M T" M M ra' W (0 (D ia-a o A;N 0 BARRY C. ALLEN/Ste Photographer Volunteers at Saturday's cleanup found fishingli@@,iine, cans and cigarettes, as welt as tires, batteries, 55-gatton drums and a washer and dryer. 300 clean up 'fteasure Coast beaches Volunteers find birds dead in fishing fine . plastic Saturday morning knew that life Hospital, the cleanup drew 700 message. Many said they would give people to Martin County beaches and up a Saturday moming of cartoons 600 in St. Lucie County. By TERESA LANE Two other birds, a pelican and a every month to protect the creatures Although the trash of choice by far Palm Beach Post Staff Writer b!ack-crowned night heron, managed they've seen at Sea World or read was miles of fishing twine, soda cans Most of the 1,300 or so volunteers to survive the,maze of line on Bird about in school. and cigarette butts, volunteers also who scoured Treasure Coast beaches Island. but the heron was so badly "They say the six-pack rings can reported lugging tires, batteries, 55- in search of garbage Saturday had injured it required treatment at the kill the sea turtles, and animals can gallon drums and even a washer-and- merely seen television accounts or Treasure Coast Wildlife Hospital in choke on the cigarette butts," said 12- dryer set from area coastlines. read of what happens when fishing Martin County. . year-old Shannon Farrell of Port St. twine and plastic six-pack rings come Organizers of the third annual Na- Lucie. Shannon picked up two trash A handful of medical syringes, nee- in contact with birds and ocean wild- tional Coastal Cleanup said stories bags of garbage from Waveland Beach dles and medical vials were reported life. such 2s Gersony's are why the annual in St. Lucie County with her mother at Normandy Beach, Hermann's Bay, Judy Gersony, a member of the beach scourings are so important - and fricnd@ Bob Graham Beach and Bathtub Treasure Coast Sierra Club, saw the not only to make the beaches more "These beaches are still a lot Beach. invitirg to humans, but also to protect cleaner than Fort Lauderdale," said The weight of the garbage. won't be tragedy firsthand Saturday when she and other animal loveis paddled the ever-dwindling number of animals Shannon, who recently moved from known until Monday, but Oceano- - across the Indian River to a spoil that remain as Florida develops its that city. "I want to help keep the graphic Society spokesman Mark Per- island and found five dead birds MaRt. water from being polluted." ry said Martin workers collected 750 shrouded in a web of fishing line. Hrndreds of children who combed Sponsored locally by the Florida large bags - about a third of which beaches in search of cups, cans and Oceanographic Society and the Wild- can be recycled, he said. libufle SECTION C SUNDAY, September 23,199o N, N16 7, 7 fad& Few-_ V X 12 __V I ...m . _Aw. ..e 4 Ir Diane Wilson/The Tribune Kyle Fluegel, 7, of Fort Pierce found more than one use for the bag he toted as he helped clean up North Beach Saturday. .-Volunteers clean 110 miles of beach Paul Owers because these are the people that one day TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 'if we can clean up some of will make the decisions about the beaches and the environment." If you checked the contents of just about this stuff, the better off Administrators from the Little Red any garbage bag on any St. Lucie County beach on Saturday morning, you'd prob- we'll be.' Schoolhouse and St. Andrew's Episcopal ably find the usual items such as soda Pat Ernest School said the day was a good opportun- ity for parents and the children to spend cans, cigarette butts and fishing line. time together. Then there were the trash sacks that lected 6,425 pounds of' non-recyclable "It also helps 'build the children's contained some pretty atypical stuff: garbage, said Richard Futch of the eness of environmental issues," said Bullets. Shoe polish. A training bra? county Parks and Recreation awar At least it can be said the day wasn't. Department. Kathleen Forsman, director of the Little Red Schoolhouse, a child-care center. dulL Many of the items collected daring the , More than 600 volunteers, along with three-hour event will be recycled and Once habits are formed, it's hard to turn their peers around the state, participated analyzed. If officials can determine the people around. We want to start when in Coastal Cleanup to gather the debris source, it could help bring about legisla- they're young. @@M TRIAS that has accumulated on the beaches in tion to prevent damage! to the environ- "Anytime we take the kids places, like the last year. ment, Ernest said. the parks or beaches, we emphasize not The volunteers cleaned about 10 miles The young and old did their part, and -to leave messes behind. It's a daily thing. of beachi@s, said Pat Ernest the county the future was on the rninds of many. You can't be environmentally aware once cleanup coordinator. "This is really important because these a year." ."If we can clean up some of this stuff, will be the Idds' beaches," said Denise Twelve members of the Fort Pierce the better off we'll be," Ernest said. Blanton, captain of the South Beach On South Beach alone, volunteers col- cleanup. "It's important to be aware Turn to BEACH/C3 Workers set to delan up the'beaches Gloria Taylor Weinberg TRIOUNK STAFF WRITER California's beach boys (and girls) once again have challenged Florida beach lov- ers to see which state can turn out the most volunteers for this year's nationwide Coastal Cleanup, set for Sept. 22. With your help, they won't stand a chance. Florida's track record is good. The state has come out on top each year, and last year nearly 5,000 more Floridians volunteered to help rid our beaches of plastics and other trash than showed up for the cleanup in California. Nationwide, 65,636 volunteers collected 861 tons of trash from 3,000 miles of Turn to BEACHES/1132 Beaches From 01 shoreline 'last year during the Coastal Cleanup. In St. Lucie County, 670 volunteers stooped and scooped more than six tons of debris from the county's 22 mfles of beach. Pat Ernest, coordinator for St. Lucie County, is appealing for volunteers to sign up early. "It's essential that those wishing to participate sign up in advance," Ernest said. She said volunteers should give their names, telephone numbers, the number of people in their cleaning parties and where @they prefer to work, if they have a preference. Those without a preference will be assigned one of the nine area beaches targeted for cleanup - Waveland Beach, Normandy Beach, Herman's Bay, Walton Rocks Park, Frederick Douglass Park, C6 JohmBrooks Beach, Surfiside Park, South 04 -Beach Boardwalk and Pepper Beach Park. The.Coastal Cleanup is backed by the Center for Marine Conservation, a national non-profit organization con- cerned with pollution control along coas- W waters and shorehnes. Discarded fishing Iine and plastic six- pack rings pose It particular threat to sea turtles as well as pelicans and other- marine life. Bottles, driftwood and other debris can be a problem for hatchling sea LU turtles, which have to go around or over the obstacles on their way to the sea. Volunteers should bring gloves, suntan lotion and bug spray for the cleanup, which starts at 9 a.m. and ends at noon. For information, or to volunteer, call Ernest at 879-1481. P"e 2 The Pon -St. U16W.Edition Thursdiiy, SePt. 6. IM How to voluntee nn h eann' Sept. 22 A I be.AL.-.. d p seti[or for beach cleanurp To volunteer for the Se By ROGIM HILL Rt from beaches.. 22 beach cleanup in St. Lucie Managing editor Last year, 65,361volunteors participated nationwide In the Coastal Cleanup, 0 To* remove from the coastal County, call Pat Ernest at Callecting.861 tons Of traSll fMM .7,000 M118S Of ShOMAnill. environment debris which is po- 879-1481. More than 1,000 volunteers are . I- tentially injurious or deadly to ma- To volunteer in Martin @'expectcd to scour Martin@atid'&:"'. id'6-6-i't stop at the beaches." of the. Treasure Coast Wildlife ways. rine and shore life. County, call the Florida Lucie counties for -litteron' Satu'r- Other changes also are in store Hospital. St. Lucie County's 570 volun- 2 To increase public awareness Oceanographic Society at day, Sept *'22, as part of the Na- for the Martin County cleanup, The St. Lucie sites scheduled for teers combed 12 miles of beaches, of the marine-debris and beach-lit- 225-0505 or the Chamber of tional Coastal Cleanup, sponsored Guertin said. This year, area cleanup include: Waveland Beach, collecting more than six tons ofde- ter problem. Commerce in your communi- by the Center for Marine Conser- Chambers of Commerce will coor- Normady Beach. Herman's Bay, bris, including four tons of plastic. 0 To show California and the ty: vation. dinate the efforts in their diitricts, Walton Rocks Park, Frederick In Martin County, 625 volunteers rest of the country that the citizens E Stuart/Martin County , Nine St. Lucie County beaches while FOS will handle parts of Douglas Park, John Brooks picked up another six tons from 22 of Florida are proud and protec- -287-1098. will be policed by volunteers this Hutchinson Island and Jupiter Is- Beach, Surfside Park, South Beach miles of beach. tive of their beaches and coastal re- 0 Jensen Beach - 334- I.AA year, while in Martin COunty ef- land. And due to -he incre-asing --p r Beach Ernest reported that Florida, sources and are willin j-. 6 Dualuwaly. anu 1-c Pe g to demon- forts will expand to include not number of volunteers that have Park. with nearly 15,000, had 50 percent strate that pride and commitment E Palm City - 286-8121.., only beaches but upland areas, participated each year, FOS is no Officials of both efforts stressed more volunteers than the larger by turning out in record numbers N'Hobc Sound - 546- too. "The Coast is Clear" is the longer hosting a beachsidc party that volunteers must register ahead and more populous state of Cali- on Sept. 22. 4724 slogan for the latter. following the cleanup. of time to participate in . the fornia. This year, she said, the Ca- To volunteer in St. Lucie Coun- E Indiantown/Port "Based on what happened last "We're trying to concentrate cleanup. lifornia sponsors of the cleanup ty, call Ernest at 879-1481. Mayaca - 597-3129. year, we've expanded the effort be- our efforts on research and educa- Last year, 65,363 volunteers have issued a challenge Florida to To volunteer in Martin County, yond the beaches," said Gary tion," Guertin said, adding that he participated nationwide in the see which state will garner the most call FOS at 225-0505 Or the Guertin, spokesman for the Flor- expects the Chambers of Com- Coastal Cleanup, collecting 861 volunteers. Chamber of Commerce in your 0 Palm C ida Oceanographic Society, one of mercc to host smaller post-Cleanup tons of trash from 3,000 miles of According to Ernest, the local community: ity - 286-8121. the co-sponsors of the effort. "We parties in their communities. shoreline. In Florida, 14,632 vo- effort has four goals: 0 Stuart/Martin County N Hobe Sound - 546-4724 were done by 9:30 last year and 'Me cleanup in St. Lucie County certainly the marine environment lunteers cleaned up more than 900 N To record number, wcight4s 287-1088. 0 Indiantown/Port Mayaca is being coordinated by Pat Ernest miles of beaches and inland water- and types of all trash collectet 0 Jensen Beach 334-3444. 597-3129. 4-, Sr' LUCIE SHOPPING:GUIDE-@F17. PIERM-FLORIDA4 AUGUST.29, 19M 1990 coastal Cleanup I The annual Na- tional Coastal Cleanup In each previous sponsored by the cleanup. Florida has Center for Marine Con- outnumbered Califor- servation, will be held nia in the number of Saturday, September volunteers par- 22, 1990 from 9:00 ticipating. Last year a.m. until noon. Ali nearly 15,000 turned volunteers must sign out in Florida, while up in advance. In St. only 10.000 par- Lucie County. call Pat ticipated in California. Ernest of the Treasure This year California Coast Wildlife Hospital has Issued a challenge at 879-1481 to register'. to Florida. They claim When calling. they will not only have volunteers should be more participants. but prepared to provide will also surpass their name. a contact Florida's record tur- number, the number of nout on 1989. people in their cleanu party, and their @refeg The September red beach. Nine St. 1990 cleanup has four Lucie County public 1.) To record g=-ers. weights. and beaches are targeted n for the cleanup: types of all trash col- Waveland. Beach. Nor- lected from our m n@y Beach. Her- beaches. 2.) To remove m:n s Bay, Walton- debris from the coastal Rocks Park. Frederick environment which is Douglas Park. John potentially injurious or Brooks Beach. Stufside deadly to marine and Park, South Beach shore life. 3.) To in- Boardwalk and P!Tper crease public Beach Park. For ose awareness of the having no preference. marine debris and beaches will be assign- beach litter problem. ed based on proximity 4.) To show California and travel conve- and the rest of the nience. country, once again, that the citizens of Last year . 65.636 Florida are proud and volunteers participated rotective of their nationa the geaches and coastal resources and are will- ManIn Ing to demonstrate Coastal C up col- lecting 861 to@s of that pride and commit- trash from 3,000 miles ment by turning out in of shoreline. In Florida. record numbers on 14;.'632, the largest September 22. number ever to par- ticipate in a state-wide cleanup. turned out to clean over 900 miles of beaches and Inland waterways. In St. Lucie County, 570 volunteers combed 14 of the county's 22 miles of coastline. col- lecting in excess of 6 tons of marine debris. Seventy-four percent of the items collected were plastic. TALK-OF THE TOWN'.e.,... Compiled by Beverly Geist Do you plan to participate in Beach Clean.up Day on Sept. 22? V@ 411 . . . . . . . . . . :A0, MELISSW GGIORE. CLIFF HAIRSTON KAYLYN CASTO "Yes, I plan to go to the 'Yes, and I think .'Yes,- because I love beach clean-up because I, people shouldn't litter." going to the beach and I think ',our @eaches ha te trash." shouldn% be trashy:' . . .. . ..... N TYLER SMITH JAMISON STILES AMANDAODOM 'Yes, 1, am going f o the beach to pick up trash be- Tes, so we will have bit- 'Yes, and I think we cause if people keep litter. ter. beaches and so 'that shouldn't litter Florida"s more people will come ing Panama City Beach I it here." beaches.," may not be the world's most beautiful beaches! any. more." Beach-Bay News; Sept. 25, 1990 COASTAL CLEANUP The Center for Marine Conservation invites all Bay Countians to participate in the 1990 Coastal Cleanup which will be held Saturday morning, Sept. 22. Offician Cleanup areas so far include St. Andrews State Recreation area, Shell Island, Tyndall Air Force Base, and Beach Drive. Come prepared with hat, comfortable shoes, sun screen, sunglasses and work gloves. All the garbage bags you can fill will be provided on site. It you would like ore information or would like to clean a beach not mentioned above, call your local coordinator at 234-9856. \J BEACH CLEANUP lv@_ KeppDLer i's organizin* g the county wide effor, t Ka'tWeen Chapman ke Ippner's firIst recollection Beach*Ray'Newis of "doing anything environ- mental"is her participation in Lisa Keppner is a Bay the first Earth Day, .April., 22, County citizen who does more 1970. She gradually: became than talk about, protecting the aware of problems affecting the environment. She suits her ac- -environment. Now, to her, "ies tions to her words. just normal" to be active in this This -month, Keppner is or- arena. ganizing the Beach 'Cleanup for "'.Lots of people are interested Bay County' *Earlier this year, in the environment inr Bay the brown-haired,, hazel-eyed County,"said Keppner. "Thait's young woman directed Earth why I like it here so much." Day activities for the county. This is the second year that She is also a member ot St. Keppner has organized the Bay Andrew Bay Resource Manage7 County Beach Cleanup. In ment Association. She handles 1989 the event concentrated on the RMA!S. recycling prograrn a, I and has been a scientific advisor.. ". Andrew State Recreation to the group. Area And Tyndall Air,Force Base. Earlier this year,- the Bay County Audubon Society recog- - Keppner is pleased to see this nized .Kep ner forher environ- yea 's project expand W include p r mental ..achievements and Beach Drive in Panama City, named her, "Conservationist of Shell Island, and an area near the Year. the Hathaway Bridge. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1990---.-' Beach cleanu expected p to draw 20,000 in Flotida From sUff nets that are harmful to marine life.. Hun,@reds of Northeast Florida resi- In Duval County olunteers will dents are expected to hit the beach gather at three locativons: Huguenot and waterways tomorrow to pardci- Memorial Par@, the Heckscher Drive pate in a statewide cleanup of litter. fishing pier at Blount Island and Lit- Local volunteers are needed for tle Talbot Island State Park. cleanups on beaches from Fernandi- In St. Johns County, cleanup na Beach. to Crescent Beach. The groups will meet at the Guana River cleanup crews will work from 9 a.m. State Park south entrance, the Vilano to noon. Beach boat ramp, Anastasia State The project is part of a statewide Recreation Area, the Crescent Beach effort to clean up Florida's beaches, boat ramp and the east side of the .rivers, wa,wrways and reefs. Organiz- Shands Bridge on Florida 16. ers say the event - the fourth state- In Nassau County, volunteers wide coasW cleanup - is expected should gather at the Atlantic Recrea- to draw 20,000 volunteers tion Center or the main beach at At- Last year's cleanup d@rew 14 000 landc Boulevard. Both locations are volunteers who collected more i@an in Fernandina Beach. 200 ton@ of tmsh. Of that, I ton was collected by 124 Refreshments will be provided fol- volunteers on Duval County beaches. lowing the cleanup. Volunteers Participants will be provided trash should wear comfortable clothing and bags and data cards to record the may want to bring garden g)oves.. types and amounts of trash recov- hats and sunscreen. ered. 'Me results will be tabulated The cleanup is sponsored by nu- and entered into a nadonal computer merous organizadons, including the data base. Center for Marine Conservation, a Much of the trash collected will be nonprofit marine conservation organ- recycled, including fishing line and ization. Helping Propeny tax people Teen increase column back up Page 3 7, Page 5 set in Nassau Page 3 NORTHSIDE/NASSAU COMMUNITY NEWS Ah-MIA) n*oa *0 Volume 2, Number 50 the$ Salturday, September: Notebook Milliard FeerwWrIns Callshain Yule@ nvlllo A time for answers L,ouis S. Sheffield Elementary School at 13333 Lanier Road has its open house for parents at 73D p.ffL TUesday. Donna Ayers, assistant principal, said the open house is an opportunity for parents to get answers to all their Unan"ered questions about curriculum, school rules, hornework policies and enrichment program. Ribault open house Parews of students at PjbaWt Junior High School, 3610 Ribault Scenic Drive, are to an open house at the school at 7 p.m. Monday. Susan Keen, president of the Parent- Teacher Association, said that parents or .he sc hool's 1,50() studems should report to their child's homeroorn class. The school chorus and band will @.,Uertain in the courtyart but because of size of the student body, there will be to rv) general assembly program for The Parents, Mrs. Keen said. Huguenot campaign The Mayor's Teenage Volunteers will 7articipate in a national beach cleanup Campaign today by attacking the sand at Huguenot Park on HeeksLher Drive. The teenagem will be at wo6 cleining ih- f-, @, @L in 1@ I p m CANDACE BARBOT.1, MlaiM HdrWd SW f TO SHOR, ES Chris George and FrIank Arbusto pitch In to cleiIin up the event Was* part.of a.state: i6ncl-.,hdtIohaI effort to -cledr beach at Virginia Key on Saturday@* The Dade County shores 'of debris.: U A AlNi@@ A.. .. . ...... . ". .......... . iF:A@ .-M "N -X N N L.ocalt'joiNsta-de'. W` 10de Cie' anup' of. beach 6's'. en empty condiment packages, four: ByCATHYCHESTNUT News-Press Staff Writer paper bags, 10 cardboard cartons, I I paper cups and some newspaper, all With bags of trash slung over within a three-yard area. their shoulders, hundreds of beach- All together, 5,000 pounds of 0 combers looking like tropical Santa trash werepicked up at Fort Myers: Clauses on Saturday were leaving Beach, said Sharon Oxley, the exec- nothing behind them but a snow- t.;%-Ptive director of.Keep Lee County: white trail. Beautiful. About 500 Lee County school c'hil- think it's been,abigsucces at@ dren, families, and others spent,,. thl$ location," she said. three hours Saturday picking up lit- estimated Saturday af-,* ter along area beaches during the 4th ternoon that about .10,000 pounds' Annual Coastal Cleanup, a statewide were picked up from Fort Myers effort. Beach, Sanibel, Pine. Island, Estero At Fort Myers Beach, some bush- and Bonita. Georgia ieppesen, work- i es'near a public parking corner on Ing with the Collier County cleanup, Palm Avenue and Estero Boulevard, said., 2,183 pounds of, garbage was yielded one used diaper, a pair of ',.,@icked up there. discarded pants, three plastic wrap- Last year 16,000 pounds weres pers, two milk jugs, 15 drinking cup picked up In Lee and Collier. lids, seven cigarette butts, 13 cups, 18 People In Sanibel, for example; Stro Siv n lucturana @tinc 97 al@cv "' "o.., _.J. -_ - ft.- F1%.ftVU up 111UL,11 lVab uub Yral Luau f bottles, three chunks of glass, an aluminum can, two wads of foil, sev- See CLEANUP, page 2C From page 1C Cleanup k they did last. Last year, volunteers she said. The day is part of a national effort fort one'of his trademar wor - reaped 5,380 pounds of coastal litter, Nonetheless, some strange, aban- coordinated by the. Center for Ma- days," In Which he ppe@ds days-work- but Saturday, only 2,187 pounds were doned items surfaced, including. a rine. Conservation, which reported :.ingatvaribusjo'bs., ': -, .. ;_ .. - . I gathered by about 100 volunteers, whole toilet a mattress and a water that Florida led the nation last year Besides keeping beaches clean, said Renee Si.---,oneaux, of Care and heater. in participation. Last year, 15,000 @volunteers said, It's Important to pick Rehabilitation of Wildlife. Although this was the fourth an- . volunteers picked up 200 tons of de- up fishing lines that entangle birds A mere five pounds were plucked nual statewide cleanup, Pilot Club bris, ranging from 467 miles of fish- and small animals and to remove from Captiva Island. international *of Fort Myers Beach Ing line to hundreds of discarded plastic bags that can be Ingested by "Either people are making less members said they have been doing condoms, participants and trash seaanimals. up, Pilot Club trash or high tides could have taken it it for five years now. Before It be- picked up, along 911 coastalmiles. Following the clean out," Simoneaux said. "I think per-, came so popular, the women's serv- Meanwhile, Martinez's Demo- members served hot dogs and cold haps people are just paying more ice used to organize local groups. craitic gubernatorial challenger, for- drinks to the 12 busloads of elemen-. attention." Elsewhere in the state, U.S. Envi- mer U.S. Sen. Lawton Chiles, helped tary children. - Oxley agreed. "We seem to think ronmental Protection Agency ad- pick up trash along Daytona Beach. Eleven-kear-old Scott Raider, 8:... there was less out there this year, ministrator William Reily joined Both candidates have touted their 5th grade student at Lehigh Elemen-,,- hopefully because of awareness,'. Gov. Bob Martinez to pick up cans environmental records in a state in tary, said this Is the second year he's and pieces of Styrofoam on a spoil which pollsters say environment is a . helped out. island In Biscayne Bay. Martinez pro- leading priority of most voters. "It's. fun and it's helping 'your. claimed Sept. 22 Coastal Cleanup U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., envIronment,9 'I Raider Day .and urged Floridians to show probably led the day's political par- shouldn't litter. it ruins'your water..,,, their concern for the state's environ- ticipants in getting down and dirij in and air."The Associated Press, C.On-.,,. ment. the cleanup. Graham made the ef- tributedtothisreport Polit.ipla . ns j N oin cons' tituents. in -pleanup-.... By DAN SEWELL Meanwhile, Martinez's Demo- Foreign. volunteers joined stu- Among those participating cratic gubernatorial challenger, dents in the cleanup at the Gulf were nine* volunteers from Hol- Associated Press former U.S. Sen. Lawton Chiles, Islands National Seashore in the land, Germa .ny, France and En- MIAMI -. With a brilliant helped pick up trash along Dayto- Florida Panhandle. " gland, who are. spending three . .blazing sun above and plenty. oi na Beach. Both can 'didates have They hit the beaches at Fort weeks at the Gulf Islands through trash below, Floridians, including touted their environmental . re- Pickens, Santa Rosa and Ok 'aloosa Sept. 29 at an international work politicians putting their best envi- cords'in.a state in which pollsters areas on Santa Rosa Island, Naval camp. ronmental foot forward, on Satur- say..environment'is a leading pri- Live Oaks area in Gulf Breeze and They pay their own way to the day cleaned beaches for the fourth ority of most voters. Perdido Key area west of Pensa- United States and the -National annual Coastal Cleanup Day. U.S. Rep. Dante Fascell of Mi- cola near the Alabama-Flotida Park Service provides tents and U.S. Environmental Protection ami boated 'to the Key Largo Na- state line. food. Agency administrator William tional Marine Sanctuary for the Reily joined Gov. Bob Martinez to cleanup./ pick up cans and pieces,of Styro- U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., foam on a spoil island in Biscayne probably led the day's. political Bay.Martinez proclaimed Sept. 22 paIrticipants in getting down and Coastal Cleanup Day,and urged. /dirty in the cleanup. - Graham Floridians to show their concern made the effort one of his trade- for the state's environment.. . - mark ."workdays," in which he The day is part of a national spends days working at various, effort coordinated by the Center jobs- for Marine Conservation '*11.1fich Wearing -T-shirt, short- and a reported that Florida led the na- baseball hat against the sun, Gra- tion last year in participation. Last ham used "sweat and plastic year, 15,000 volunteers picked up bags" for his 244th workday near 200 tons of debris, ranging from the Gandy Bridge at Tampa Bay. q. 467 miles of -fishing line to hun- Thirty-five to 40 sites were tar- dreds of discarded conc@.,..,tns, par- geted in the Tampa Bay area for ticipants . and trash picked up, the volunteer cleanup drive. along 911 coastal miles. Graham joined some 400 vol- Nationally, and in Puerto Rico unteers who waded into the surf Canada and Mexico, about, 65,ood and patrolled the beach for debris. people participated last. year, the Besides keeping beaches clean, center said. volunteers said, it's important to "Florida's. beaches are vitally pick up fishing lines that entangle important to our state, and all Flo_ birds and small animals and to re- ridiahs. should do their part to move plastic bags that can be keep bur beaches safe and clean ingested by sea animals. Martinez said. "Our efforts today "When Florida was a smaller and every day will make sure that place,people -were of the mindset our beaches can continue to be that the beach was ' everybody's enjoyed for generations to come." garbage can with an unlimited ca- F Martinez, in jeans and checked pacity to absorb whatever they shirt, found most of the trash was. threw into it," Graham said. already accounted for by a group "Florida's coastline is defined by of teen volunteers by the time he its beaches just like some areas of arrived. His entourage, :which the country are defined by their came by Florida Marine Patrol mountains. Just by not dumping boat from Key Biscayne, included bags of trash out of boats will help, his wife, Mary Jane, Reily and polite and thoughtful things to do. presidential son Jeb 'Bush and will help tremendously to protect Secret Service agents. our coast." Big turnout expected for beach cleanup By Garry Matlow Organizers are looking for a big turnout Saturday morning when volunteers collect and catalog trash along Volusia County beaches during the annual Flori- da Coastal Cleanup. "The volunteers are coming, they're calling," said Rita Alexander-Block. "We're as excited as can be." The event begins at 9 a.m. and runs until noon. Southeast Volusia staging areas are the Flagler Avenue and 27th Avenue beach parking lots and Canaveral Na- tional Seashore. Alexander-Block said volunteers can show up any- time during those three hours, and can help out as long as hey are able. "If they can just stay for 20 minutes, that's fine," she said. Last year some 200 volunteers walked Southeast Vo- lusia beaches and collected more than a ton of debris, including an athletic supporter, a steering wheel, sy- ringes, a broom and a full can of beer. But 84 percent of the haul was plastics and polystyrene foam, which pose a danger to sea turtles and marine life who become entangled in fishing lines or mistake plastic bags for food. Part of the nationwide cleanup effort, sponsored by the Center for Marine Conservation, involves cata- loging trash by tpe with the statistics being used to educate the public and lobby governments for new reg- See Beach/Page 5A From page 1A Beach ulations. The volunteers also will collect information used by the center to pinpoint sources of trash and prosecute vi- olators, For example, garbage with labels from foreign countries, cruise lines or commerical fishing vessels will be given to the Coast Guard as evidence to put vio- lators on notice and prosecute where possible. The more mundane items also will serve a purpose. "We will be recycling everything we can," Alexan- der-Block said, noting that in past years Scout troops have benefited from the recyclable aluminum, plastic and glass that was collected. As an extra incentive, she said, Center for Marine Conservation hats will be presented to workers who find the out-of-the-ordinary items. Alexander-Block said that this year, for the first time, the beach cleanup also willb e taking place on the Daytona Beach side of the inlet. In previous years Hali- fax area groups assisted with efforts at Canaveral Na- tional Seashore. Statewide, some 14,500 volunteers participated last year and a Center for Marine Conservation spokesman said more are expected this year because of a gorwing environmental awareness among Floridians. 'No question about it," said Alexander-Block in agreement. "It's just incredible how many more people are becoming aware of our fragile ecosystem." For more information on the cleanup effort, call Alexander-Block of Greenpeace International at 427- 9420, Rhonda Donahoo-Gumto of the South Volusai Sea Turtle Society at 423-4529 or Sandra Hines of Canaveral National Seashore at 428-3384. lei Ct 0 Record turnout expected+ for'. I Sept. 22 @:beach cleanup This year's Beach Clean up is ex- nation-aW California-min beach pected to be the biggest yet, with Flor- clean up participants. ida'sphapter of the Center for Marine Over 27 states are participating this .Conservation marshalling forces to ye ,ar with-an 'expected turriout-of over meet ah informal challenge from 100,000 people. Contact the Zone , ., i CMCs California group. Florida Captamin your.area for details on how needs@to field some 20,000 volunteers you or your organization can help.... this September 22 in order to lead ft It's a day at the beach! Volunteers pick up where trash left off By Kristy Goodfellow Staff Writer AHHHHH! The beaches are beautiful once again. About 400 volunteers donned gardening gloves and mosquito repellent to collect trash on Collier County's beaches and at the Rookery Bay estuary Saturday as part of the Florida Coastline Cleanup. "I'm impressed with the num- ber of different groups and the number of people involved," said Georgia Jeppesen organizer of the Collier Cleanup. "It's incredible the amount of community sup- port." Jeppeson helped organize groups from Barrion Collier High School, Naples High School and Edison Community College at Rookery Bay Saturday. We should help clean it up because we're going to be living here>' Ann Walsh, Naples marine biology student She said, "I wanted the stu- dents to be aware of this pristine area." The students dragged them- selves out of bed early on a Satur- day morning for the 9 a.m. cleanup for many reasons. Frances Turner, an ECC stu- dent, joked that she was there to do her civic duty and get some extra credit. But she added that she came because Jeppesen told her class that if they collect enough gar- bage from one source, they will show the statistics to the company that produces the garbage. Jeppesen said they hope the company will want to improve its image on preserving the environ- ment and will do something about the problem. A company might just print "Please Dispose of Waste Prop- erly" on the side of a can or it might contribute money toward educating young people about environmental problems, she said. About 20 students from Barron Collier came out for the cleanup as part of the first of 15 commu- nity service projects they will be participating in this year. "This is part of Barron Collier's program to help the com- munity out in thanks for the schol- arships," said Tim Duncan, student body president. Junior class president, Christina Dukes, said that the stu- dents are trying to give something back to the community. Naples High marine biology student Ann Walsh simply said she was there, "because I care." "We should help clean it up be- cause we're going to be living here," Walsh said. Jeppesen said that last year 331 volunteers covered 51 miles of beach. Statewide 14,000 volun- teers scoured 900 miles of beach and collected and classified 200 tons of garbage. This year, Jeppesen said, more people volunteered to help in the cleanup. How many tons of trash were collected won't be known unitl a count can be completed. Ic 4L Cleaning: @uplhe-@beache&., j'i@. 7 *7- -77 4k 1.4.t .@V A; 'if 'we i:Itiaff photb,by KIM Welmer. -j M ra Ludw ig Ipicks up a p ie'c.eof n6t-so-n:ice 6 6,;h,Na'p'les. Bea @ea-r b e 6 i r6l Avenue., L' e First Christian, a trash Saturday. whil ch In udWig,-'V-Wfh' tfi. Church in Naples, was one 'of more than 400 people in., Collier County who', showed up to:Oafticipate in'the statewide Coastal Cleanup. See',, story, Page I B. LS IV 7- d- 3 Putting a dent in trash 0-7 _37 41 177 4'. ':tN Mr . ..... ial 9L Times Ohoto - CHERIE DIEZ Chub Davies, a ..volunteer --from ..St. Petersburg, disposes -of County. The Tampa Bay Day clean.up,was part of a statewide trash collected Saturday at Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas effort to rid Florida's beaches of debris. Alaf-ia. River IS We t trash r"V U eers Coastal cleanup program part of Bay area effort By KEN K NIGHT Inc. plant. The fertilizer company Tribune Staff Writer was sponsoring the local cleanup on . GIBSONTON - Trudy Kensin- the Alafia. ger loves the Alafia River. She has "I try to think of ways to make lived on its southern bank for two people clean up," said the Wiscon- years. sin native who moved to Florida S hen she and h three years ago with her husband, o w er husband, Jeff, took to the river with a fishing Art. They bought a 30-foot pontoon net and garbage bags Saturday, it boat a few months ago. was like cleaning their yard. IA mallard duck slipped below "We just like to keep the river the tranquil waters and six brown natural so the wildlife can live with 'pelicans, perched on pilings In the the human beings," said Kensinger, Alafia, eyed the cleanup crews as an environmentalist and a member they worked their way along the of Citizens for the Alafia River river picking up cans, Styrofoarn Preservation (CARP). _ floats, paper bags, plastic bags, The Kensingers and as many as clothing, cartons, car batteries, tires 30 other people! motored along the and plastic six-pack rings, which Alafla River Saturday morning, can be dangerous to turtles, birds cleaning up the shoreline as a part and fish. of Tampa Bay Day. . "If they get their heads stuck in The annual coastal cleanup is them, it's a slow death," said Gerald sponsored by the Center for Marine Johnson, assistant manager of the Conservation, the Tampa Bay Re. Tampa Bay Sanctuary National Au- glonal Planning Council and the dubon Society. Johnson and a crew Southwest Florida Water Manage- spent most of the morning cleaning ment District. up Bird Island. Cleanup crews dotted the Alafia "There is an incredible amount .,zr from Interstate 75 to Bird Island, a of garbage for such a little island," bird estuary in Hillsborough Bay. yelled Dan Diaz of CARP as he and <_ They snagged everything from plas- the Kensingers cleaned a toe of tic toys to old tires on rims. land jutting out into the river near Yvonne Vistain of Gibsonton the U.S. Highway 41 bridge. "You started picking up garbage even be- can't walk 10 feet without finding fore climbing into her pontoon boat. something." "I do this wherever I go," Vis- Within five minutes, the trio col- tain said after picking up an empty lected 2@j bags of trash. wine cooler.bottle at Williams Park, . Keasinger said CARP members which is at the foot of the Doyle E. already are making plans to clean P of by vol nt Carlton Bridge and the Gardinier up the river again in the spring. io Volunteers to Clean Up Beaches were plastics such as cups, straws and bags, said By RYAN TUTAK Kathy Zeller, vice president for Wildlife Inc., which StafrWriter will coordinate the cleanup in Sarasota County and in More than 700 volunteers from southwest Florida Manatee County with Manatee's Parks and Recre- will comb public beaches, parks and offshore waters ation department. Saturday morning to -pick up trash that organizers Marine animals often mistake the *plastics for food say points to the need for better laws to protect and then die after eating it, -and sea bir&'often get marine life. tangled in monofilament fishing.string and nets and The event, the largest single-day beach cleanup in may die from strangulation, Zeller said. Last year 500 Florida, is part of the fourth annual National Coastal miles of monofilament fishing line was collected in the Cleanup Day from 9 to 12 a.m. cleanup. Last year volunteers collected more than 400,000 Florida's Coastal Cleanup Day last year resulted in pounds of trash in Florida, more than in any other a state law that bans the release of balloons on state state, said Heidi Lovett, statewide coordinator of the beaches, food, Zeller said. event for the Center for Marine Conservation, a non- Participants in this year's cleanup have their sights i profit organization. on three more laws, Zeller said. The immediate goal of the cleanup is to call atten- They hope to strengthen a state law banning the tion to the amount of garbage and dramatize t1ae intentional disposal of fishing line and nets in the extent of litter on beaches and in the water. water; to modify an international law to prevent "It' gets the message across that we don't want offshore dumping of plastic in the Gulf of Mexico; and garbage on our beach and affecting the marine life," to introduce a local law that would ban plastic straws, Lovett said. "The hope is to teach people that drop- on public beaches, she said. ping debris bn beaches is not wise and that we pollute About 400 people in Manatee County will pick up the coastal area when we do that." trash along 37 miles of beach, including the Anna More than 65 percent of the trash collected last year Maria area and Palma Sola Causeway, Zeller said. ; AYBREAK. 'D ENGLEWOOD. BEACH CLEA_NUP,SATURDAY1,..11. Calling all beach,buddies! Join the Englewo'odt'- Branch. of the American Littoral Society from,[email protected] ami to ri6on,.on Saturday, Sept. 22, to help clean'-,,. Up the coast of debris on Florida's annu al,Coastal CieanupDay. Data cards and supplies will be distributed froin specific points along the shore. Tile Jaycees, the 4-H, and nianv clubs froni the high school will be oil the Joh. VOILIMM-1; will incet at Englewood Public Beach at 9 a.m. If ),oil are interested in being a "beach buddv- call the ALS at 474-5180. This is it statewide e(fort, so your hard work will be documented. FOURTH ANNUAL FLORIDA BEACH CLEANUP PLANNED By Sarah Demshar Staff Writer Calling all Englewood area "beach bud- dies!" It's Beach Cleanup time again! The Englewood Branch of the American Litioral Society (ALS), coordinator of the Center for Marine Conservation's (CMC) fourth annual Florida Coastal Cleanup, is looking for volunteers to help collect trash from area beaches on Saturday, Sept 22nd. Englewood volunteers will be collecting trash from bayside and Gulf beaches along Manasota Key including the Englewood Public Beach, Stump Pass Beach, Blind Pass Beach, Manasosta Key Beach and Sandpiper Key. Volunteers will meet at 9 a.m. at Englewood Beach and the cleanup will be held from 9 a.m. to noon. Volun- teers are advised to bring a pair of gloves, liquid refreshments, wetable shoes and to wear proper beach attire. CMC is providing all data cards, plastic bags and other supplies ALS officials said. The second beach cleanup held this year in Englewood, volunteers willbe collecting trash for recycling and other proper dis- posal along with providing valuable data for CMC's National Marine Database -- data which determines the types and sources of trash injuring wildlife and destroying our beaches and estuaries. According to Heidi Lovett, coordinator of the statewide Florida Coastal Cleanup, "Floridian are very serious about the marine debris problem. They are reporting Plase see CLEANUP, 7A Englewood Times Cleanup From Page 1A cruiseline dumping violations to our St. Petersbur office and the Coast Guard, and are urging new local laws to curtail the use of disposable plastic and polystyrene (Styrofoam) containers in their communities, all to help keep Florida's beaches, mangroves, reefs and estuaries clean of un- wanted debris." "last year," Lovett said, 14,632 volunteers picked up more than 200 tons of debris along 911 miles of beaches." Lovett added that Flordia has the second largest coastline in the U.S. -- second only to Alaska. "We are only cleaning one-tenth of our coastline," Lovett said, "We have nearly 9,000 miles because of our many islands." Lovett said that this year, volun- teers will be using a revised data card that emphasizes the identifi- cation of sources of debris and has expanded its list to include mili- tary, oil/gas, shipping/freight or fishing companies' identification an/or addresses. All information, Lovett explained, will be for- warded to the U.S. Coast Guard to be used as evidence to put viol- ators on notice and to prosecute, where possible. Any person con- victed of disposing plastic trash anywhere at sea, or other kinds of trash too close to shore, may be fined $25,000 or imprisoned, she added. According to Lovett, Florida's Coastal Celanup always recycles as muchof the collected debris as possible --- emphasizing that recy- cled trash would not end up on the coast. "This year we will send all the monofiliment fishing line to Berkley in Iowa," Lovett said. "They are a manufacturer of fish- ing tackle." This is the first time that the fishing line has been recycled, she noted. At last year's Coastal Cleanup, volunteers collected over 190 miles of monofilament line. The plastic fishing line and other plastics are extremely dangerous to marine life. "Thousands of PAGE 7A seabirds, sea turtles, small whales, dolphins, fish and manatees that frequent Florida waters and coastal areas have been killed by either entanglement or through ingestion of pieces of plastic." Lovett said. Nationally, CMC's Coastal Cleanups wre held in 25 U.S. states and territories, Canada and Mexico. More than 65,000 volun- teers cleaned 3,000 miles of coastline and 850 tons of debris were collected. CMC is the leading organization dedicated solely to the protectionof marine wildlife and their habitats. Healthful Victim Fisheries experts told the- P.S. Congress that grow- ing demand for swordfish, atastyseatoodfavoredbytheheafth- conscious, is decimating the spe- cies. William Fox, assistant adryinis- trator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said that "the resource is clearly over- fished, and the situation has be- come significantly worse during the past five years.." Protecting sword- -7- Y.1 California, Law Spells Out Plans to right Oil spills. f , LwAngem Mmft cleanup plan in the nation. an additional tax of 25 cents ioi to appoint a state oil-spill "czar" or The statute,.which takes-effect each barrel of oil. - response administrator to set up a SACRAMENTO Saying that immediately, is a direct result of In the event of a spill the state' detailed comprehensive plan for "anounce of prevention woul -1 cer- the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska would be given unlimited authority the safe transportation,of oil along tainly be worth a barrel of spilled last year and the British Petroleum to borrow additional funds for California's coastline. : crude oil," California Gov. @ George tanker spill off Huntington Beach, cleanup' operations. The money These steps are expected to in- Deukmejian signed into law Satur- Calif., in February would have to be repaid by the. oil clude.:surptise inspections of tank- iday the most comprehensive The law will @;" a $100 mil- companies. ., I ers and terminals, up-to-date safety offshore. oil-spill prevention and lion cleanup fund to be financed by The governor is given the power plans for refine 'ries, use of radar for tanker traffic, and requiring tug- I boat escorts in hazardous waters. Volunteers to Clean Up Beaches were plastics such as CUPS, Straws and bags,. said By RYAN TUTAK Kathy Zeller, vice president for Wildlife Inc., Which Staff Writer will coordinate the cleanup in Sarasota Countyand in More than 700 volunteers from southwest Florida Manatee County with Manatee's Parks. and Recre- will comb public beaches, parks and offshore waters ation department. Saturd ay. ii@orning to pick up trash that organizers Marine animals often mistake the, plastics for food say points to the need for better laws, to protect and then die after eating it, -and sea birds often get marine life. tangled in monofilament fishing string and nets and The event, the largest single-day beach cleanup in may die from strangulation, Zeller said. Last year 500 Florida, is part of the fourth annual National Coastal miles of monofilament fishing line was collected in the Cleanup Day from 9 to 12 a.m. cleanup. Last year volunteers collected more than 400,000 Florida's Coastal Cleanup Day last year resulted in pounds of trash in Florida, more than in any other a state law that bans the release of balloons on state state, said Heidi Lovett, statewide coordinator of the beaches, food, Zeller said. event for the Center for Marine Conservation, a non- Participants in this year's cleanup have their sights profit organization. on three more laws, Zeller said. The immediate goalof the cleanup is to Call atten- They hope to strengthen a state law banning the tion to the amount of garbage and dramatize tile intentional disposal of fishing line and nets in the extent of litter oD beaches and in the water. water; to modify an international law to prevent "It gets the message across that we don't want offshore dumping of plastic in the Gulf of Mexico; and garbage on our beach and affecting the marine life," to introduce a local law that would ban plastic straws Lovett said. "The hope is to teach people that drop- on public beaches, she said. ping debris 'bn beaches is not wise and that we pollute About 400 people in Manatee County will pick up the coastal area when we do that." trash along 37 miles of beach, including the Anna .More than 65 percent of the trash collected last year Maria area and Palma Sola Causeway, Zeller said. .''.D.A.Y BREAK ENGLE W- 0 OD'- CLEANUP SATURDAY !!A! Calling all beach. buddies!J oin the Englewoo Branch of,the American Littoral Society from 9' a.m to noon, on Saturday',: Sept. 22,*,t(j help clea@@' up the co@st of debris on Florida'sannual Coastal...' Cleanup Day. Data cards and supplies Nvill be distributed from specific J)oi nts along the shore. Tile Jaycees, the 4-1-1, and many clubs from the high school will be oil t lie jot). Volunteers will ineet at Englewood. Public Beach at 9 a.in. If YOU are interested in being a ''beach buddy" call the ALS at. 474-5180. This is a statewide effort, SO VOU1' liard work will be documented. Beach cleanups play major role in legislation on marine litter By Marilyn Hoeckel It's beach cleanup time again! Although the national beach cleanup will not take place until Sept. 22 of this year, many states are conducting spring cleanup events, and Florida is among them. Boca Grande's cleanup will take place this Saturday, April 28. Volunteers are needed! Come to the Theatre Mall parking lot at 8:30 a.m. and be a part of Boca Grande's cleanup effort. The Center for Marine Conservation, the sponsor of the natinal beach cleanups, has com- piled statistics about the 198 National Beach Cleanup held last fall. here are a few of the national statistics" Beach cleanups were held in 25 U.S. states and territories, Canada and MExico; More than 65,000 people partici- pated; Nearly 3,000 miles of coastline were cleaned up; and 850 tons of debris were collected. Here are the Florida statistics: 14,904 volunteers participated- the most of any state. (California had the next largest number of partici- pants, with 10,077 people coming out.) 911 miles of beaches wre cleaned up; Almost 200 tons of trash was col- lected; and Volunteers collected 467 miles of monofilament fishing line. (Fishing line is deadly to marine birds and mammals, who become entangled in it and die slowly from starvation and dehydration.) And here are the Boca Grande statistics: 15 people participated, far fewer that participated in the previous springs's cleanup, for which more than 60 people came out. 11 miles of beach and bay shore- line were cleaned up; and About 630 pounds of trash was bagged. As important as the trash removed during cleanups is the information gathered at the same time. During beach cleanups, information about the types and amounts of trash picked up is collected on official, standardized data cards supplied by the Center for Marine Conservation (CMC), the sponsor of the national cleanups. CMS takes this information back to the source of the marine trash and encourages possible contributors to the problem to become part of the solution. In addition to identifying specific sources of marine debris, information from beach cleanup data provides real numbers to illustrate the magni- tude of the problem. As a result of this kind of informa- tion extractin, legislators across the country are coming to the conclusion that marine debris is more than a lit- ter problem and are enacting laws to eliminate the problems that trash in the oceans causes to wildlife. Be a part of this worthwhile effort! Give a hand Saturday! Beach clean-up. is this weekend By SARAH DEMSHAR Staff Writer Attention all beach buddies! This Saturday, April 27th, will be Manasota Key Beach Clean-up time again in Englewood. Sponsored by the ` Englewood Branch of the American Littoral Society (ALS), the semi-annual clean-up will be held from 9 a.M. to noon, and all those interested in continuing the Earth Week celebration are urged to join in this local en- vironmental effort. According to Sydney Crampton, coordinator for. the ALS, the beaches targeted for clean-up are Manasota Key., Beach, Blind Pass Beach, Englewood Public. Beach, and. Stump Pass Beach. "This is a special project for our area," Crampton said, "and is being held in concordance with Earth Week. People are geared-up for the spring cleanup, she added. Joining the ALS, members of the Lemon Bay Conservancy, 'Englewood Ham Radio Operators (EARS), Lemon Bay High School's Environmen- tal Club and R.O.T.C., several Veteran's groups, and all concerned residents will don their tennis Please see(BEACH, 11 A BEACH Sun-Times 4-25-90 From Page 1A shoes and gloves, and collect beach clean-ups a year, due to trash from the coastal areas for the heavy use of the are's the three-hour clean-up along beaches and waters. Crampton seven miles of beaches and said that all recyclable items bayfront. collected will be donated to local Data cards will be given to recycling groups. each volunteer, "crampton said. In last year's spring clean-up, Rangers from Oscar Shearer volunteers collected 270 tons of State Park will help in the debris and nearly 190 miles of state-owned Stump Pass area. monofilament. The plastic fish- Free garbage bags, drinks, and ing line is dangerous to sea birds a native gum tree will be given and sea turtles, which can easily to volunteers, according to become entangled in it. Other Crampton. Volunteers will items, such as ballons and gather at the North Pavillion of plastic six-pack holders are also Englewood Public Beach, at 9 a menace to wildlife. a.m. A brown bag lunch Beach Although there is a statewide Clean-up meeting is scheduled at Coastal Celan-up in September the ALS today, Wednesday, from Englewood area residents have noon to 1 p.m. Volunteers are traditionally conducted two invited to attend, or call 474-5180 for more information. A -7@@ LA) Al -70 Raw: sewage still pouring'. into ocean 4A41 WEST PALM BEACH (AP) Thousands of tourists stayed off the beaches and boaters avoided the In- tracoastal Waterway as millions of gallons of raw sewage continued'to pour Into the water Saturday, health' officials said. About 50 miles of beaches, from_ Jupiter In north Palm Beach County, south to Pompano Beach _ In, Sewaae Continues to Flow lfito'w4er Broward County, remained c'.1osed as workers used jackhammers to V.@. SM H (API@ break up 40 cubic yards of cement VVE I FADVIL BEAC I Beaches ffirther south were al- sure sucked a manhole cover onto that had been poured around the.' Thousands of tourists stayed off lowed to stay open in a decision the pipe. pipe Thursday in an unsuccessful a .t- the beaches and boaters avoided that balanced public health con- The utility sent the excess sew- the Intracoastal Waterway as raw cerns against "the convenience of age into the only available outlets - tempt to seal the leak. sewage from a broken pipe contin- the public, including the tourist the ocean, the Intracoastal d "We're closing the beaches be- an cause we have three quarters of a ued to pour into the water Satur- industry and the economy of the canals. Beaches will remain closed million gallons of raw sewage gone' day, officials said. county," said Frank Gargiulo, di- until water samples come up nega- About 25 miles of beaches, from rector of engineering for the Palm tive for contamination, officials out the Palm Beach inlet, said Jupiter south to Boynton Beach in Beach County Health Unit. said. James Howell, director of the Palm Palm Beach County, remained Health. Unit director James More than 3 million gallons 6f Beach County Health Unit, closed Saturday night as workers Howell said workers wouldn't be raw sewage a day continued to be-' Hamblen said workers wouldn't. used jackhammers to break up 40 afile to repair the break until Sun- dumped into the ocean a mile" be able to repair the break, until, cubic yards of concrete that had day at the earliest. The 42-inch offshore from Palm Beach, 750,000 J' Sunday at the earliest. The 42-inch, been poured around the pipe concrete pipe - one of three major gallons a day continued to be,: concrete pipe - one of three major: Thursday in an unsuccessful at- pipes leading to the county's treat- pumped into the Intracoastal@: pipes leading to the county's treat- tempt to seal the Wednesday night ment plant -. split open after a Waterway in West Palm Beach, of-, ment plant - split open after a leak. valve blew and the resulting pres- ficials said. valve blew and the resulting pres-. sure sucked a manhole cover onto the pipe. The utility sent the excesssew7,@. age into the only available outlets - the ocean, the Intracoastal and canals. Beaches will remain closed@ until water samples come up nega,,"@ live for contamination, offioatil said. A ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION AND ISSUES SHAPING EARTH CONSCIOUSNESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1990 EARTH NOTES/BY ANITA MANNING Thousands Will hit the beaches to gather trash You may have more than the usual company if you head for the shore this fall. More than 100,000 volunteers in 25 coastal states will be on beaches this month and next counting trash. They'll pick it up and have it hauled away while they're at it. Its an oper-ation. called National Beach Cleanup, part of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Maxine Conservation's Clean Ocean Campaign, which gathers data on beach litter, tabulates it and passes it along to government policy makers. The goal: To identify both the source of oceanfront dump- ing and the scope of the problem. Last year's beach cleanup involved 65,000 volunteers who collected and cata- logued 3 million pieces of trash, weighing 861 tons, from 3,000 miles of beach. Included in the haul: 164,141 cigarette butts, 135,352 glass bottles and 106,301 foam cups. Sound like fun? If you Eve in a coastal state, check at a local 7-Eleven store for details or call 800-262-2532. The Sea June Star - Sunday, September 22, 19 U.S. holds cleanup day for trash-strewn beaches Litter runs from dead birds to cocaine Hening was disgusted by the low turnout The Associated Press of surfer volunteers. Thousand of beachgoers, including politicians anxious to put their best envi- "There are more mothers here from ronmental foot forward, searched for East LA than surfers. "Hening lamented trash instead of sun, surf and fun during "They are in favor of this but the big Saturday's national coastal cleanup. question is, are they going to walk up and down the beach for an hour? They still Under driving rain in New Jersey and haven't gotten away from the 'Beach the blaring Florida sun, volunteers froun Blanket Bingo' mentality." broken glass; crack vials, dead birds, batteries, hair rollers and tons of plastic Volunteers were hard to come by in and cigarette butts. Virginia, where military workers who had formed the bulk of volunteers for "I can't believe we're finding dead past cleanups were preoccupied with the birds on this beach." said Liz Nickel, 56, crisis in the Persian Gulf. as she worked along the coast of Santa Monica, Calif. "I live here. My daughter "Sixty-five percent of our volunteers grew up here. Since 1964 this was our have been from the military. Now many favorite beach. It's too sad for me to of them are either deployed overseas or come down here now. It's disgusting." involved in supporting the troops," said Robert K. Dean, a local environmental Coastal Cleanup Day is an end-of- activist and an organizer of the states summer national event coordinated by cleanup. the Center for Marina Conservation in St. He said 6,700 volunteers picked up Petersburg, Fla. more than 60 tons of trash during a Clean- the Bay Day in June, but only 2,000 had In Florida, politicians were out in force volunteered for Saturday's effort. to show their support for the environ- ment. Gov. Bob Martinez and his Demo- The cleanup produced some surprises cratic challenger, former Sen. Lawton among the tons of disposable cups and cans and plastic six-pack rings round on "When Florida was a smaller place, the nation's beaches. people were of the mind-set that the beach was everybody's garbage can with in South Carolina, where the cleanup an unlimited capacity to absorb whatever was held a week early on Sept. 15 to they threw into it," said Sen. Bob Gra- accommodate the tide schedule, a voluo- ham, D-Fla. who wore a T-shirt, shorts teer at Edisto Beach found a bag of white and a baseball hat as he helped clean up powder with a razor blade. the Tampa Bay coast. "Florida's coast- line is defined by its beaches just like "The police officer said it was about some areas of the country are defined by $300 to $400 in cocaine," said cleanup their mountains." coordinator Norman Fox. In Texas. a 3.9 million gallon oil spill in Rainy, cold weather did not deter the Gulf of Mexico in June and a 700,000 volunteers in New Jersey. The 1,000 gallon spill in the Houston Ship Channel pounds of garbage collected by volun- in July helped rouse volunteers. Alice teers at beaches in Keansburg included Law of Clean Galveston, coordinating the crack vials, syringes, cigarette filters and Galveston cleanup, said she expected up broken glass, according to Andrew to 4,000 volunteers this year, compared willner of the American Littoral Society. with less than 3,200 last year. A cleanup effort in nearby Sandy Hook was reacheduled for Sunday due to the Celebrity soaked Malibu in California rain, but organizers saw a silver lining in the clouds. rain. but Celebrity-soaked Beach cleanup nets record ATLANTA 100,000 participants. EPA staff report Nearly 40,000 volunteers including T HE EPA GULF OF Mexico Pro- federal agencies, the oil and gas indus- gram Office last month announced try, private conservation groups, local record results for the beach clean- govemments, leaders from Gulf of - up that took place last September. Mexico ports and the commercial and The goal this year was to recruit recreational fishing industries joined 25,000 volunteers to cover approxi- citizens from the five Gulf states to ad- mately 1,000 miles of the Gulf's U.S. dress the issue of marine debris. coastline. The goal was exceeded by In conjunction with the Gulf of Mex- ico Program, "The Children's Alliance for Protection of the Environment" (CAPE) spearheaded a program of 40,000 young volunteers participating in a wider Caribbean area beach clean- up. Volunteers recorded data on the trash collected for inclusion in the National Marine Data Base located at the Center for Marine Conservation in Washing- ton, D.C. The following listing repre- sents the results for each state: State Volunteers Tons Miles Alabarna 2,618 37 62 Florida 10,164 134 710 Louisiana 6,450 '125 296 Mississippi 1,865 22 110 lum 15,822 232 lu Totals 36,918 551 1,363 Several tons of collected trash were recycled. Texas, for example, recy- cled 19 tons of plastic. In addition to the figures of trash collected and recycled, petitions were gathered to encourage Special Area Designation (SAD) of the Gulf of Mexico under the provisions of an in- temational treaty (Annex V of the In- ternational Convention for the Preven- tion of Pollution from Ships). The petitions signed bycitizens from the Gulf states were presented to Admiral Kime, head of the U.S. Coast Guard.w STAff PHOTO THOMAS BENDER Gilbert Solley, 69, does his part Saturday in the coastal cleanup around Palma Sola Say. Volunteer Comb Beaches In Search of a Little. Litter bottles, Styroam cups and cigarette butts d By PAULA PARK the three-hour cleanup. Last year, only 167 staff Writ. participated in the cleanup in Manatee. Twelve-year-old Chris Dale, dragging a giant But getting rid of litter that can harm sea turtles glastic bag of garbage, teetered on one of the and wading birds was only one goal ofthe cleanup oulders lining Cortez Beach on Saturday until he unized -locally by the county Park# finally fell off and nicked his big toe. ratirg. Department and a private environ- But as he stuck a bandage on the cut Chris mid mental group called Wildlife hie-, based in Manatee he did not mind hurting his too because he was County. working for a worthwhile cause: Manatee County's The effort was part of a nationwide campaign to third annual coastal cleanup. - I clean the nation's beaches that was sponsored by "It was worth it to clean up the beach " said the Center for Marine Conservation in Washing- Chris, a sixth-grader at W.D. Sugg Middle hool. ton, D.C. "If I wasn't here, Id just be sitting at home, on the The Manatee campaigners kept an inventory of couch. Besides, my mom told me to come." how much and what kind of trash they picked up, Chris was one of about 450 county resident a who said Kathy Zeller, vice president of Wildlifi I= scoured 22 miles of county beaches for old cang Confinued on 14A MA M SARASOTA HERALD-TRIBUNE/SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1990 National. Beach Cleanup Gets Mixed, Reviews". By The Associated Press Me rtinez and his Democratic chal- lenger, former Sen. Lawton Chiles, Thousands of beach goers, includ- hit the beaches to gather trash. ing many a politician anxious to "When Florida was a smaller put his or her best environmental place, people were of the mind-set . foot forward, searched for trash in- that the beach was everybody's gar- dead of sun, surf and fun during bage can with an unfited capaci- Saturday's national coastal ty to absorb whatvaver IWI--Y- therew cleanup. into it," said Democratic Sen. Bob Under driving rain in New Jer- Graham, who wore a T-shirt, sey and the blazing Florida sun, shorts and a baseball cap as he volunteers found broken glass, helped clean up the shore near crack vials, dead birds, batteries, Tampa Bay. "Florida's coastline is hair rollers and tons of plastic and defined by its beaches just like cigarette butte. some areas of the country are de- I can't believe we're finding, formed by their mountains." dead birds on this beach," said Liz In Texas, a 3.9-million-gallon oil Nickel, 56, as she worked along the spill in the Gulf of Mexico in June coast of Santa Monica, Calif. "I live and a 700,000-gallon spill in the here. My daughter grew up here. Houston Ship Channel in July Since 1964, this was our favorite helped rouse volunteers. Alice Law beach. It's too sad for me to come of Clean Galveston, coordinating A 'down here now. It's disgusting." the Galveston cleanup, said she 01- Coastal Cleanup Day is a nation- pected up to 4,000 volunteers this al end-of-summer event coordinat- year, compared with less than by the Center for Marine Con- 3,200 last year. in Cab- tion in St. Petersburg. Celebrity-soaked Mah And in Florida, politicians were flornia, where beachgoers lie d out in force to show their support to look up at the Stan in the day- for the environment Gov. Bob time, was crowded with cleanup volunteers. But at Surfrider Beach, environmental activist Glenn Hen 'I can't believe can ing was disgusted by the low turn- out of surfer volunteers. we refinding "There are more mothers here from East L.A. than surfers,' Hen- Wead birds on this ing lamented. "They are in favor of this but the big question is: Are they going to walk up and down the .beach. I live here. beach 'for an hour? They still h My daughter grew ven't gotten away from Blanket Bingo' mentality. Volunteers were hard to come by UP here. Since in Virginia, where military work- Louis Valentin, a volunteer from New York City, rolls a discarded tire offe beach 1964, this was ere, who had formed the bulk of about 60 people helped clean up the beach during a nationwide waterfront cleanup volunteers for past cleanups, were pied with the crisis in the ourfavorite beach. Gulf. June, but only 2,000 volunteered ~0 ~ ~ ing was disgusted ~low ~ out of surfer volunteers. ~e me, more mot~ ~ from East L.A. than surfers,'! Hen,'-, ented. ~in favor of is, ing b~ ~1pn ~ b~~ to ~2pt~ ~ ~ =Van hour? They still h~ h 1 d.~ ven't gotten away from the 'Beach ~rew Blanket Bingo' mentality." Volunteers were hard to come by here. Since in V~ military work- ~ a' AP LASE~ n~rom. N~y, rolls a discarded tire ~e~e~~psp~ steady r~, ~ ~ ~ formed the bulk of V 1964, this was volunteers for past cleanupe, were ~le helped clean up the beach during a nationwide waterfront cleanup effort. ~ with the crisis in the ~e beach. an June, but 'only 2,000 volunteered syringes~2per~1p' "Sixty~of ~ for Saturday's effort~ ~ actually~ ken -glass. according to Andrew A ~psadfor me teers have been from the military~ The cleanup produced some ~ 'Wil~the American I~ said Robert ~al envi~m among the tons of disposable! Society. to co~ roh~t ~pg~ cup- ~ will wash ~ up. A cleanup effort in nearby Sandy er of the state cleanup. "N~ in South Car~he Hook was r~d for today ~ -it ~ many of them are either deployed cleanup was held a week early, on CLEANUP vo~ ~ due to the rain, but o~~ overseas or involved, in ~ Sep~modate the tide a silver lining ~1p@ ~ ~ the troops." ~ whe~olunteer at ~ about ~ in cocaine," volunteers in New Jersey. The "The rein is actually good be~ He said 6,700 volunteers picked Beach found a bag of white powder said cleanup coordinator Norman 1,000 pounds of garbage ~ed cause it will wash more trash up," CALIFORNIA up more than 60 tons of trash with a razor blade. Fox. by volunteers at beaches in said Susan Fairing of Clean during a Clean-th~ Day in ~ o~ri~ ~Liny, cold weather did not deter Keansburg included. ~ ~, ~ it was. T I D~ r B e~l~t~ 50 Chi In f~ dean., ~ 1A About 1~s ~e~ pick The re~sent-to the Center for Marine u~ at pickup sites on Anna Maria ~ Conservation in St. Petersburg and then to Wash- Island, along Palma Sola Bay and on Snead Island where they will be used to back~ and haul them to du~ Compton said. ing~ tougher state and federal laws to protectthe envi~ Volunteers in boats took bags to several am ronment, Zeiler said. sags, barrier islands, including Rattlesnake, `Pas For instance, statistics ~nups have ~ce ~s, as well as to a spoil been used ~hree years to help key off the ti of P~~ .~1pL ~ drives for federal laws to prevent ships from dump. On the keys, the volunteers searched for garbage ing their wastes in oceans and, gulfs~ through mangrove shoots sticking up through the Keeler. a Manatee Community College biology sand. professor who brought 29 of his students to the People cleaning Passage Key also released three cleanup Saturday. pelicans entangled in fishing lines, Zeiler said. 4 As a result of the cleanup campaigns, the Florida: : Near every bit of m~p~1p@an be ~assed a statute last November prohi~ =to animals and fish, and the Campaigners %found plenty of such ~l~ biting the releasing of balloons into the air. The law was passed after lobbyists presented statistics odd. j ~iaper~ ~pbag of showing that deflated balloons are often found in ~ A the lungs of dead birds and tu~d. ~aid Keeler. "What's that doing t~ The animals suck the- balloons into the lungs, beach?" and cannot cough them up, she said. Bits of plastic ~~ Community COI ~ said he found "about 2 billion ~~ ~ can also strangle birds, Zeiler said. ~~ Bill Bolas, bird. will feed the deadly plastic to their young. h~butt-" said. One of ~p'~nny ~y,~ ~ found mounds of garbage next to. Cor~ Zeiler said she hopes that during t~ps~the ~f 22~ tive session, the Florida Legislature will ban th ~ use ~ine. Birds often use that line to trash cam ~ build their nests It's ~ the~ed in it. Zell ~ said. ~ debr~~ ~1png bi~is so at the sometimes ~ ~ im rtant to. the county that the Manatee Parks d C~~ ~ ~ Department contributed ~ $1~ m~ rials to the e~t,~ of 'the'. Mann- i ~~ ~dump~ said. ~s~ clean ~ pack holders ~8~~,~ -~ Fishing line and plastic six~ ~ ~ a ~ been used d th put thres Yom to help off the tip of Perico Island, Compton @W& uring a dri 1. 1-On the keys, the volunteers searched for gar(i4e ves for federal laws to prevent ships from dump- through mana- shoots sticking up through the ing their wastes in oceans and.'gulf1s, said Carl Keeler@ *a Manatee Community CO 107 a People cleaning Passage Ke bi I sand. professor who brought 29 of his stu to to also released three cleanu pelicans entangled in fishing lines, Zeller said. p As a t Of Z. the cleanup campaigns, the Near Florida it of manmade packaging can be Legislature passed a statute last November prohi- h=t=O and fish, and the 6ainpaign"111 biting the releasing of balloons into the air. The, found plenty-of Such mckaging, Saturilsy _VAdW law was passed after lobbyists presented statistics "Wd. Showing that deflated bell.. are, often fd in "we, found, diaperg ',_;'16adq d'- and.a'bag of-, fertili- aid Keeler. 1%niat's that doing on the the hings of dead birds and turtles, Zeller said. The animals suck the balloons into the hings, beach?" Another Manatee Community College prof@w. and cannot cough them up, she saidL Bit4i f lastic can also Strangle birds, Zeller wdL O= =9 Bill B018S. mid he found "about 2 billion dgarette birds will food the deadly plastic to the, youM she 'butt," add. One of Keelers students, Penny Veseay,,19,'of the 5200 block of 22nd Avenue Week 4mid. she Zeller Said she hopes that during the nea tive session, the Florida Legislature will the found mounde of garbage next to the Corties ban trash cans. use of fine fishing line. Birds often use that line .It's dispa build their nests - then get entangi said. ad in it, Zeller ding, a Said. Zt Although Vessey and others wrinkled their, Ift at the sometimes . Protecting birds and animals to so im rotting debris an the oosst,@; portent to the county that the Manatee Parks and Recreation they said that cleaning the beaches would help q Pepartment mate- them away the sun and sand even mom in the contributed $1,500 in labor and future. rials to the effort, said Dave Compton, mi anager of "it anagement lent ma y@oufielgo4'!Bolessai&,....'-@'-'.. parks for the county. Waste M "It also -ak you enjoy a shower lateri". I'm Fishing line and plastic six-pack holders are se rated into a plasticbeg for recycli dumpstere to help out, Compton said. 2_Y_1d inageep', pa ng. Compton said the beach cleanup will help county Khald Rhodes, a 4 workers do a better job of keeping the beaches from Sarasota. Fe,7_7' 4, Al "zx A A 44@ jt K4. /el, "P. & STAR PHOTOIT140MAS BEN" STAFF PHOV01HOMASSUCER., The debris includes plastic bottles,'and plastic bagi. Jeff Genter and Carolyn Kapperinwher sort through debris Wrday at Palma Sola A Dorothy Katrein of Englewood studies a tangle of fishing line Saturday as she joins in the cleanup at Englewood Beach. Volunteers Clean Beaches For Nature and Themselves them, "Stefanisin said. By JAMES ROLAND "People need to be aware of the dangers," Ca- Staff Writer tansee said. Everybody that unles the beach needs Visitors to the beaches in Englewood and the to help." rest of Charlotte County apparently smoke a lot of On Saturday, help came in the form of about 125 cigarettes. volunteers on Manasota Kay and about 350 people That's the consensus of the volunteers who cleaning up the other coastal areas of Charlotte participated in the Southwest Florida portion of County, according to Kathy Hollinger, who helped Saturday's state and national Coastal Cleanup. organize the county wide effort. "We must have picked up 5,000 cigarette butts," "We had an absolutely woulderful turnout, with said Englewood resident Kathleen Stefanisin. people from 3 months to 80, "Hollinger said, "We She and her sister, Shirley Catanese, also from found a really bad area around Coral Creek in Englewood, spent the morning picking up litter at Placida. We found tires, construction insulation, Englewood Public BEach. It was the second year fish nets and a horrible odor of dead marine life. that the sisters have helped sweep the beaches free They picked up 1,200 pounds of garbage and of cane, bottles, fishing line - and cigarette butts. there's still a lot out there. It almost needs to be "Birds eat them I heard, and it can really hurt Continued on 14A A"I V 4 Z -v %: IX - g4 m ;v STAff PHOMJEFFRCY u Jackie Gleeson weighs herself and the trash she co: Ilected @6turday-at En*glewo:o'd Beach. She weighed herseff before she started, and the ciifferer@',l is the Weight of the trash. Beach Volunteers Get the Trash federal laws to restrict ships from dumping their Continued from 1A wastes in the water, said Carl Keeler, a Manatee dredged," Community College biology professior who brought Hollinger said that at least 3,456 pounds of trash 29 of his students to the Manatee cleanup. was picked up on the county's shores. The load As a result of the cleanup campaigns, the Florida included 643 pounds from Manasota Key, part of Legislature passed a statute last November prohi- which is in Sarasota County. Some reports from hiting the releasing of balloons into the air. The Charlotte County cleanup groups had not been law was passed after lobbyists presented statistics turned in by Saturday afternoon, however, so the showing that deflated ballons are often found in total is expected to go much higher, Hollinger said, the lungs of dead birds and turtles, Zeller said. Sydney Crampton, who organized the Engle- The animals suck the ballons into the lungs and wood and south Sarasota County effort, was also cannot cough them up, she said. pleased with response from the community. Zeller said she hopes that at the next session, the "We had an excellent turnout, about 125 peo- Legislature will ban the use of the fine fishing line. ple," said Crampton. "I think it's growing every Birds often use that line to build their nests, and year." then get entangled in it, Zeller said. The Coastal Cleanup, a statewide and nation- But not everyone was out Saturday just to help wide cleanup effort, was established by the Center the environment. About 30 students from the for Marine Conservation, a Washington, D.C. or Students Toward Environmental Participation ganization dedicated to protecting marine life. Pre- (STEP) Club at Charlotte High School saw a vious Florida cleanups have recycled an estimated reward at the end of a hot morning of woark. 15 tons of debris and provided information used to By participating in the Coastal Cleanup club develop tougher pollution-control legislation, ac- members earned an opportunity to go on a week- cording to the organization. end field trip at the Cayo Costa State Recreation During the 1989 cleanup in Florida 14,632 vol- Area next weekend. unteers picked up 200 tons of debris and 467 miles "It will be the first trip of the year," said student of monofilament fishing line. Sixty-five percent of Amy Hosp, who helped clean up the area around the debris consisted of items made of plastic. the Gilchrist Bridge in Charlotte Harbor. It was Fishing line and other plastic items endanger sea worth it. We had fun. We found underwear and birds and other marine life that ingest or become seat covers. I think six times." entangled in them. At the north end of Mansota Key, Leman Bay Volunteers kept an inventory of how much and High School students JoAnn-Schrank and Joe what kind of trash they picked up saturday, said Amaral volunteered to earn community services Kathy Zeller, vice president of Wildlife Inc, and points as members of school's Junior ROTC pro- environmental group that helped organize the gram. cleanup effort in Manatee County. The results will While they didn't find much litter, they said they be sent to the Center for Marine Conservation were happy to do their part. office in St. Petersburg and then to Washington, "I thought it was a decent thing to do since I use where they will be used to bolster efforts to enact the beach a lot," maral said. tougher state and federal laws to protect the envi- ronment, Zeller said. For instance, beach cleanup statistics have been Staff Writers Paula Park and Ryan Tdak con- used during the past three years to help a drive for tributed to this report. Members of the Lemon Bay High School Environmental Club help rid Englewood Beach of trash Saturday during the Coastal Cleanup. Beach crew,[email protected]. Wer dollars amid theAebris By Cory Jo Lancaster "It was a pretty typical cleanup, OF THE SENTINEL STAFF except for the money," said The- rese Nelsen, a Boardwalk cleanup 1.@, %,eng@ supervisor helped by her 8-year- INDULANTIC - Volunteers in old daughter, Alex. "I've never 4 the fourth annual beach cleanup heard of that happening." were talking about the money - Organized by the Center for Ma- not the trash r- found Saturday rine Conservation, which is based near the Indialantic Boardwalk. in St. Petersburg, the cleanups re- The volunteers joined thou- move debris from the beaches, in- sands of people cleaning up coasts eluding fishing lines that entangle around the nation. The partici. birds and plastic bags that can be pants laboring under Florida's swallowed by sea animals. Volun- teers collect information that i blazing sun included Gov, Bob used by the center to find the Martinez in Miami and his chal- sources of trash and prosecute vio- lenger in the governor's race lators. Lawton Chiles, in Daytona Beach. Along Brevard County's south- The cleanups also produce odd ern beaches, there was good news discoveries. 71 mixed in with the garbage. One In Melbourne Beach, a volun- boy- found $51 - two wet and teer found a dashboard from a TOM MEDLEYISENTINEL sandy $20 bills, a $10 bill and a $1 Mercedes-Benz automobile with bill - in the sand near the India- the steering wheel on the right Rita Mexander Block helps weigh lantic Boardwalk. Nearby, another side. In this country, steering trash picked up by volunteers as group found $11, and another dis- wheels are on the left. Rhonda Donahoo Gumto tallies covered $7. In Melbourne Beach, a up the totals in Now Smyrna volunteer reported finding $8. Please see BEACHES, B-5 Beach on Saturday. The Orlando Sentinel, Sunday. September 23, i9w S-5 helped rouse volunts-*n. Celebri- Politicians join effort ty-soaked Malibu in California, where beachgoers fie.down to look up at the stars in the daytime, was crowded with cleanup volunteers. to clean up beaches But at California's Surfrider Beach, environmental activist SUCHES from B-1 from 467 miles of fishing line to Glenn Hening was disgusted by the low turnout of surfer volun- hundreds of discarded condoms. teers. "I don't know where that thing Nationally, and in Puerto Rico, "There are more mothers heav came from," said Randy Parkin. Canada and Mexico, about 65,000 frorn East LA than surfers," Hen- son, an oceanography professor at people participated last year, ac- ing lamented. "They are in favor Florida Institute of Technology in cording to the conservation cen- of this, but the big question is, are Melbourne who has been analyz- ter. they going to walk up and down ing the trash found in Brevard U.S. Sen. Bob Graham probably the beach for an hour? They still County. "That must have been the led the day's political participants haven't gotten away from the most unusual item ever found." in getting down and dirty in the Beach Blanket Bingo mentality.- Elsewhere, former U,S. Sen. cleanup. Graham made the effort Volunteers were hard to come Lawton Chiles joined hund one of his trademark "workdays " b - Virginia, where military Volusia County volunteers i reds of during which he :spends da@s y in ing up trash in the Dayton n pick- working at various jobs. workers who had formed the bulk a Beach Of volunteers for past cleanups area. And Environmental Protec- Wearing a T-shirt, shorts and a were Preoccupied with the crisis tion Agency administrator William baseball hat against the sun, Gra- in the Persian Gulf. Reilly and Gov. Bob Martinez ham used "sweat and plastic "SiXtY-five Percent of our volun. picked up cans and pieces of plas- bags" for his 244th workday near teers have been from the military. tic foam on a spoil island in Bis. the Gandy Bridge over Tampa Now many of them are either de- cayne Bay. Bay. ployed overseas or involved in Florida led the nation in partici- In Texas, a 3.9 million-gallon oil supporting the troops," said Rob. pation on beach-cleanup day last spill in the Gulf of Mexico in June ert K Dean, a local environmental year - 15,000 volunteers picked and a 700,000-gallon spill in the activist and an organizer of the up 200 tons of debris, ranging Houston Ship Channel in July state cleanup. Big -turnout 5A expected for From page 1 A Beach utaUons. beach cleanup The volunteers also will collect information used by the center to pinpoint sources of trash and prosecute vi- BY GARRY MATLOW olators. For example, garbage with labels from foreign countries. cruise tints or commercial fishing vessels Organizers are looking for a big LUMOUt Saturday will be given to the Coast Guard as evidence to put Yio- morning when volunteers collect and catalog trash lators on notice and prosecute where possible. ilong Volusia County beaches during the annual Flori- 4;@ The more mundane items also will serve a purpose. da Coastal Cleanup. q, "We will be recycling everything we can," Alexan: "De volunteers are cbming, they're calling," said der-Block said. noting that in past years Scout troops KiLa Alexander-Block. "We're as excited as can be. - `%, have benefited from the recyclable aluminum, plastic The event begins at 9 a.m. and runs until noon C6 and glass that was collected. Southeast Volusis staging area are the Flagler Avenue' As an extra incentive, she said, Center for Marine ..nd 27Lh Avenue beach parking lots and Canaveral Na. Conservation hats will be presented to workers who tional Seashore. find the out-of-the-ordinary items. Alexander-Block said volunteers can show up any- Alexander-Block said that this year, for the first ime during those three hours, and can help out as long time, the beach cleanup also will be taking place on the is they are able. "If they can just sta for 20 minutes, Daytona Beach side of the inlet. In previous years Hali- fiat's fine," she said. . y fax area groups assisted with efforts at Canaveral Na- L04 -)*& MO.aW volunteers walked Southeast V@- tional Seashore. isia br-aches and collected more' than -a ton of debris. Statewide, some 14,500 volunteers participated last ncluding an athletic supporter, a steering wheel, sy- year and a Center for Marine Conservation spokesman iiiges@ a broom and a full can of beer. said more are expected this year because of a growing But 84 percent of the haul was plastics environmental awareness among Floridians. OlystYrene foam, which pose a danger to sea turtles "No question about it," said Alexander-Block in nd marine life who become entangled in fishing lines agreement. "It's just incredible how many more people .r mistake plastic bags for food. am becoming aware of our fragile ecosystem." Part of the nationwide cleanup effOM sponsored by For more information on the cleanup effort, call IC Center for Marine Conservation, involves caUi_ Alexander-Block of Greenpeace International at 427- oging trash by type with the statistics being used to 9420, Rhonda Donahoo-Gumto of the South Volusia Jucate the public and lobby governments for new reg- Sea Turtle Society at 423-5629 or Sandra Ffines of See B08CWPage 5A Canaveral National Seashore at 428-3384. Bye ye, bea..... litter NEW S A BEACH - Volun. tras They also will collect data for teers will take to the beaches today to CMC's National Marine Database on clean UP after litterbugs. the types and sources of trash that Volunteer trash collectors will gath. harms wildlife, beaches and estuaries. er at the beach at Flagler and 27th A spokesman at Canaveral National avenues and at Canaveral National Seashore said about 150 People -in. Seashore as Part of a statewide effort cluding two area schools - have said to clean Up the beaches this morning they will participate there. from 9 to noon. To participate at the Seashore, take Recyclable materials will be re. S.R. AIA seven miles south of New cycled. Smyrna Beach and go to the park's The Florida Coastal Cleanu day is information center. To participate at Part of a national effort Sport p red by New Smyrna Beach, go to the parking the Center for Marine Con so lot at the Flagler Avenue beach ap. in Washington, D.C. servation proach and the 27th Avenue beach ap- This is the fourth year of the clean- Proach. up in Florida. Last year about Trash bags will be Supplied. Partici. 15,000 pants will be assigned to specific volunteers Picked Up 395,440 Pounds areas of the beach. of trash from 91, miles of Florida coastline. Volunteers will be asked to dress About 20,000 voluntee for the beach and wear shoes to pro- b @fq MYRN rs are ex- tect their feet and gloves to protect Pected to Participate this year. their hands. It's recommended that Volunteers will collect more than Participants take drinking water. 4 BUSINESS 6 STOCKS 12 WEATHER Sunday, September 23, 1990 THE PORT ST. LUCIE NEWS City desk - 871-5520 01 7 10, Shore enough5.. 1% t 4 beach cleanup a tidy success. By Andl Schabo oi the News staff There might have been more volunteers than trash in Martin and St. Lucie counties Saturday as people flocked to area beaches and waterw:iys to help clean the Treasure Coast. 4, More than 600 volunteers in St. Lucie County and ........... as many as 2,000 in Martin joined the cleanup effort, which was completed by noon. "I thit* it's a general trend. For the past two or three years there seems to be less trash," said Gary Guertin, spokesman for the Florida Oceanographic Society, a co-sponsor of the event. '41 Nancy Sailer of the Stuart-Martin County Chamber of Commercc said her group was surprised to find little trash in the parks around town. "The parkswere not that dirty. It seems the people Photogrephor: JIM URICK in the city have been keeping them clean," Sailer said. Melissa McCoy, 10, Bryan Geunbaum, 9, and Tif- The group found the most trash in waterways, she fany Paul, 12, foreground, all of Jensen Beach, said. were among many volunteers who combed the vegetation at Stuart Beach on Saturday in search Please see CLEANUP on B2 of trash. LOCAL CLEANUP CONTINUED FROM B1 izations involved, it will take time for all the statistics to be collected, Guertin said the less trash that is said Guertin. found, the more he knows the pro- Last year more than 900 volun- gram is working. teers picked up 13,770 prounds of "A lot of people seem to think refuse on Martin County beaches. that if you collect less trash, the ac- The cleanup was part of a tivity was not a successful. But it's statewide effort sponsored by the not the tonnage of trash collected Center for Marine Conservation. but the awareness and the educa- Judy Gersony of Jensen Beach tion the cleanup provides," he received a firsthand lesson on how said. harmful trash is on area wildlife. The educational value of the day While cleaning a spoil island in was what brought Brandy Monk, a Martin County, Gersony and her student at Port St. Lucie High group rescued two birds. A king- School, to the cleanup. fisher that had swallowed a hook "We're here as part of our lea- was taken to the Treaure Coast dership class," said Monk. "we Wildlife Hospital. The second, a get points for doing community pelican, had to be untangled from service. And it's our responsibility a mass of fishing line. to keep our community clean." "It was terrible - it was In St. Lucie County, 10 miles of wrapped across both wings and beach were cleaned. On South both legs. It took us 10 minutes Hutchinson Island, 6,425 pounds just to untangle him," Gersony of non-recyclable trash was col- said. lected. Michelle Coutant of Stuart was Pat Ernest, organizer of the St. a first-time volunteer. She worked Lucie effort, said more would be at Stuart Beach organizing volun- added to that figure after trash col- teers and sorting trash. lected at Pepper Park on North The most encouraging thing Hutchinson Island is weighed. about the day for her was the in- Martin County statistics for the volvement of students. number of volunteers and amount "We got great participation of trash collected won't be avail- from the schools, "Coutaat said. able until later this week. Coutant said she beleves getting For the first time in Martin youngsters involved will keep con- County, the effort spread west of cern for the environment from be- the beaches to local roads and wa- coming a passing phase. terways. The oceanographic so- "They're teaching this to the lit- ciety, which traditionally sponsors tle kids in school now. It's second the event, was joined by five Mar- nature to them," she said. "It's tin County chambers of commerce harder for us because we had to in sponsoring the cleanup. learn about conservation as Becuase of the number of organ- Beach Buddie are talking trash Kathleen Chapman- Beach Bay News Saturday, Sept.22,is the day, that anyone in Bay County can "Be a Beach Buddy" by joining in the Florida Coastal Cleanup The cleanup is sponsored by the Center for Marine Conser vation and is being coordinated locally by Lisa eppner, a CMG oluter. In Bay County, cleanup-will take place on Shell Island, St.. Andrew State Recreation Area Beach Drive, Tyndall Air Force. Base, and an area near the ,Hathaway Bridge. Volunteers, working, in groups ofthree will collect trash .in one bag and items to be re- .cycled in another. Information about what is found will be re- corded qona data card provided by the CMC. .On Shell Island, cleanupwill include both the gulf and bay sides. The U.S. Fish. and Wild- life Service employees have vor" Li Keppn - is, orgnizing the Beach Cleanup in Bay County. (Ph Ioto by Kathleen unteered to handle the' bay side According to Fisheries biological hapinan Will gist, Loma Patrick,Ahey :AT&T and Southern Bell area also help to haul trash in theit, workcenters. boats from the island to St. An' : The cleanup. at Tyhdir drew park for weigh-in and sort Jorce Base is being organized by ing. Frank Goodwin,captain of Bob Bates and Neill Hunter of the Kitty gawk',, -has - donated the Tyndall Department of the use ofhis 30-passenger a NaturaI Resources. 'They have to'carry other volunteers to the., invited students from Ruther- island., -. ford High School as well as other Shelly Du.Puyi who has vol interested persons to meet at, untered to captain the effort at The Tyndal YachtClub at SLI Andrew State Recreatiow Bates said they plan to. work Area, will set uphopt the. on -the.* NCO beach and the ibelte dicvics.the Tyn dall portio.of Shell Island re end of the parking lot above the "If we have enougli-volunises@ kiddie pool. Volunteers can sign,: we; may oil up at 8 a.m. Crooked Island, to.e,he.sai They Will be given bags and The id in data cards and will clean along: bags, pamphlti. the shoreline. In addition, v `,materials and unteers from Hydrospace Dive unteers. Shop will bclude, underwater.: Keppner.,repo car cleanup at the jetties as part of. CMC data cards b their dive activities for the day, improved nee t dez; On Beach Drive, the' sector are easie captain is Ron Houser with Bay k the categofies better., County Audubon Society. His vided. center of operations will be in Data from 10q9489, 88 Asbell Park beside Lake Caro- plastics comprised 640 percen line. Sign up is at 7.30 a.m. and trash collected in Floridaia cleanup will cover a 1, 0 mile year's cleanup. These-it mi area from Bayside Inn -to ten cause the death. of, marin- Frankford Avenue. mammals and birds,who Telephone Pioneers, led by take them for.floo Mike Lockwood, have volun- Dumping of plasti teered to pick up trash on the has been prohibited signi west side of.Hathaway Bridge. 31, 1988 by a world treaty... Lockwood expects from 12 to 20 vessels,' from': roads volunteers. Notices of the proj- ect have been posted at both a. Beach, Beach tankers,". must comply. with.- these regulations. Information from data cards helps to identify lawbreakers. Keppner recommended'that all volunteers wear gloves, hats, sunglasses, comfortable shoes, and lightweight clothing. to picking UP trash, participants will keep watch for any marine animals- that mayhave become victims of dumping., Last year, Bay County volunteers rescued a Laughing Gull that had a fish book, with, monofilament line still attached, through its wing.',* Aluminum and 'glass items will 'be recycled locally. Bill' Hudson, Bay-County recycling- coordinator, will provide final collection of these items. State. wide, plastic fishing line and net will be. recycled by Berkley Manufacturing Pepsi Cola is donating soft drinks to the volunteers. J @T, Volunteer beachcombers clean.up area coastline By DENISE O'TOOLE this is the first time the sea and While more than 500 volunteers sky cooperated with their plans. "It's always been either too combed the coastline of Volusia 7 and Flagler counties in Saturday's rough or stormy," said underwa . -@, II ;, ter scorching sun picking up at least zone captain Don Serobusek of Or- two tons of trash, about a dozen mOnd Beach. worked to remove hazardous ocean High-rise condominiums were X Aar' debris in a much cooler sett;-ig barely visible on the eastern hori- @underwater about 10 miles off zon as Ed Best, wearing full scu ba gear. popped up out of the water shore. The occasion was the fourth an. with a handful of monofilament nual National Coastal Cleanup fishing line he just cut from the ar- sponsored by the Center for Ma. tificial reef below. He and his col- rine Conservation. The local divers leagues collected several pounds of News-iournai photo bv Lisa Parker and beach policers were among an the fishing line, which often traps Turtle patrol members are among volunteers bagging beach ekimated 15,000 in the state and fish, turtles and and other sea trash Saturday in Ponce Inlet. !Pps of thousands in the country to creatures that feed off the thriving Jpin in the event. Volunteers not reef. Only time limits prevented miles of fishing line collected in should help to clean up the qnly removed debris from the them from removing more. the water and on the shorelines beach@q and thi-q wmild haln th beach, they took much of it to recy- "You could stay down there as will be recycled. Aluminum cans- fish to live." Oing centers and forwarded infor- long as you wanted to taking line and glass have been recycled since Ranger Hines reported trash col- tion about what they found to off- There's miles of it," said Mark the event's inception. Miss Devlin lected from the seashore included re CMC. Krodel, who piloted one of four pointed out that this year, large items from Greece, the U.S.S.R., I One of the more disturbing dis- boats on the cleanup expedition. numbers of glass containers were Czechoslovakia, Italy and Canada. doveries here was three unmarked The reef was created in 1980 by found in areas of the beach where However, the beach attracted for. $5-gallon drums found at Canave- sinking the ship Mindanao, a 440- they are prohibited. eign volunteers as well. rial National Seashore, said Donna foot-long, 62-foot-wide Liberty ship. On Canaveral National Seashore, "We visit New Smyrna Beach 0evIin, a CMC associate biologist. The accumulation of line and other for example, 109 pounds of the to- every September," said Vicente Ji. Two of the drums were broken; fishing paraphernalia was a testa- tal *808 pounds of trash collected menez of Caracas, Venezuela, who One was intact, according to notes ment to the reers popularity as a was glass, she said. The national worked with his son. "The beaches led by the zone captain, Ranger fishing spot. Other items found seashore was one of three collec. are wonderful, the people are all andra Hines. The contents and were bricks and a 38-millimeter tion sites in Southeast Volusia warm and friendly, so I and my rigin of the drums were unknown gun cartridge, which will be re- County that attracted a combined son Fernando felt it was our duty aturday, Miss Devlin said. cycled, in a way. 250 volunteers. Many were stu- to help today to clean the The local divers, members of Or- -Wben you sort that stuff out, I'd dents, including 6-year-old Jerrard beaches." rhond Anchor Chasers, have tried like to get that lead back if I can. Hanson. In the area from Daytona Beach fQ clean fishing 4e from Liberty My dad'i a reloader," Best shouted "All @his plastic stuff can kill the Shores so?4th to Ponce Inlet, about ,@kf on the day of the, national from the ivater. fishes @,Yid turtles," Jerrard said. 200 volunteers brought 696 pounds leanup each year since 1987, but This year, for the first time, the "My t6acher told us everyone SEE CLEAN/ X tween 1,3W and 1,400 pounds of volunteered this year as last year Clean litter were collected on 16 miles of "We hope someday to come down shoreline. About 100 volunteers here and not have anything to pick. CONTINUED FROM 1C represented a wide range of ages up," said Rita Alexander-Block, an. and backgrounds, from retirees to employee of Greenpeace Interns-- of trash to three collection sta- schoolchildren. tional and a Southeast Volusia, tions, reported zone captain Beth Bayer estimated 400 pounds of zone captain. Libert of Volusia County Turtle Pa- recyclable material was collected. The cleanup also served as a trol. Tallies of trash collected on Other beach debris included car campaigning opportunity for candi- Daytona Beach and brought to and boat parts, plastic oil con- dates for the governor's seat in Lighthouse Point Park in Ponce In* tainers, a dead turtle and a dead Florida. a state in which pollsters let were not available Saturday. shark. . say the environment is a leading Earlier in the week, zone captain information sent to CMC after priority of most voters. Maria Viviano, of Sons of the previous cleanups has resulted in While Democratic gubernatorial Beaches, a group often critical the various law changes, including a candidate Lawton Chiles helped- way the county handles beach op- statewide ban on release of lighter- pick up trash in Daytona Beach, in.. erations, predicted a good turnout. than-air balloons and bans on plas- cumbent Republican Gov. Bob "The Sons of the Beaches are tic straws at beach concession Martinez did the same on a spoil working with the county Beach De- stands in some communities. Orga- island in Biscayne Bay. partment on this, so it must be im- nizers said, though, the annual portant," she said. cleanup's raising of public aware- In Flagler County, zone captain ness may be its greatest achieve- Statf writers Deborah Johnson Dennis Bayer, of Flagler Conserva. ment. and Mark Miller contributed to tion Association, estimated be- Nearly twice as many Volusians this report. Volunteers % clean up beaches BY MARK 1. JOHNSON More than 770 pounds of trash was removed from New Smyrna's beaches S@L"y 11" to volun- Leers=c paLCin the annual W I g Flori earr-up. According to event coordinator, Rita Alexander-Block, 87 volunteers spent their Sawday morning scour- V ing the 10-miles of beaches picking up the litter left behind by thought- less beach-goers. Ile New Smyrna Beach group gathered a LOW of 777 pounds of trash, including 46 pounds of alu- minum, 68 pounds, of glass, 663 pounds of paper and plastics and I'k . ..... ishing line. ounces of f 01 One participant even found $5 in 1-j. 0@s the sand. In talking to some of the people participating in the clean-up. it ------- j seems the central theme of the event PHOTO BY MARK L JOHNSON- was to help preserve one of our most JEREMY DECKER, 9, of New Smyrna Beach was just one valuable resources. of the dozens, of volunteers who descended on New "We use the beach, so we decid- Smyrna beaches Saturday during the Florida Coastal ed to come over here and help clean Seg Bgachlpage 5A Clean-up. Sm fort to clean up the twaches on all The event help the center gather From page I A coasts and drew people from all information as to what kind of trash walks of life. Even Florida's guber- can be found on the beaches. It uses Beach natorial candidates, Lawton Chiles this information to attempt and track and Gov. Bob Martinez, got sand in down the source of the debris and Barbara yerkeS of Or. 'their shoes to participate in the prosecute those people who are it up," said evont. Chiles helped clean up along dumping it. ange City. Daytona's beaches, while Martinez The effort -also lends a helping "Living on the beach I think we traveled to Miami to lend a hand. hand to the wildlife which use the should all participate," added New -up is spon- oceans and shorelines as their Smyrna Beach resident Pat Cham- The Coastal Clean bers. , , sored and organized bY the Center homes. Plastics and fishing lines The New Smyrna Beach event for Marine ConservaLion in St. Pe- have been proven to cause deaths in was part of a state and national ef- tersburg. birds and endangered sea turtles. Beach buddies find it's a plastic world BY GARRY MATLOFV "That's too much," she said. "Plastics do not degrade - I -al organizers hope the only don't care what they tell you. Lac plastic they find on Southeast They break down into smaller Volusia beaches during the Sept. particles and that could be more 22 Florida Coastal Cleanup are dangerous to animals." the bai in which they put debris. The danger comes from items They know, however, that will such as plastic bags floating out not be the case. to sea - or being dumped from During last year's cleanup. passing.ships - where they a- volunteers statewide collected semble part of the natural envi- 200 tons of trash and 467 miles ronmenl. of monorilameni fishing line in "Sea turtles die from ingesting three hours. Of that total, 64.8 plastic bags," Alexander-Block percent was plastics and said. "They look just like jelly- polystyrene foam. fish. which is their favroite In Volusia County, 84 percent food." of the haul was plastics, accord- Turtles and birds also become in& to Rita Alexander-Block, a entangled in fishing line, in cusmg Greenpeace International sea tur- them injury and death. According LIC campaigner. to the Center for Marine Conser- PHOTO IV GUM UATLOW ..We just outdid everybody," vation, national sponsor of the RITA ALEXANDER-BLOCK tells Klwanls she told New Smyrna Beach Ki- Sept. 22 cleanup, whales turtles wanis Club members Wednes- and at least 50 species of sea Club members the hazards of plastic to day. See CleanuplPage 6A marine life. From page 1A Cleanup birds are known to mistake plastic items for food. Alexander-Block said the clenup aims to do more than ust remove litter from the beach. "We're there not just to pick up the trash, but to document the trash, "she said. Those statistics are used to edu- cate the public and lobby for new regulations. For example, the inter- national marien treaty in 1989 banned the dumping of plastic by ships at sea, and in Florida the Leg- islature banned the release ofmore than 10 lighter-than-air ballons at a time. The cleanup effort has picked up several corporate sponsors since the first event nine years ago. For ex- ample, Glad Wrap and Bags has to- nated trash bags and faber-Castell has donated pencils. For the first time this year, Berkley, a manufac- turer of fishing line and tackle sup- plies, plans to recycle all monofila- ment fishing line collected. The Florida Coastal Cleanup will be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 22. Southeast Volusia staging areas will be the Flagler Avenue and 27th Avenue parking losts in New Smyrna Beach and the Canaveral National Seashore information cen- ter. Volunteers should bring gloves, hat, sunscreen and appropriate shoes or sneakers. For more information, call Rita Alexander-Block at 427-9420, Rhonda Donahoo-Gumio at 423- 5629 or Canaverl National Seashore Ranger Sandra Hines at 428-3384. Alt w j;'Awl ELI v. % g gc x a n@ "fil g", Sl i M-T eerg@c ju rA. b Opp OUTAWM f,,O P, !@,Voluqt ollec @dm . .... iin, turd!Ri ;,..rom kW alon Sc '-d G w--'i.'do'fl;-n--j*- y"O" r 1 ro rasp p ause @Rfi "IS 0- iat .-KU.3 a iPl th o. z liM M A gICK AS ol W, ,V, @ui-, CM "liE My "I h @Tth tt 016 0) "A V. un,21@ og IN R nqlq: oplv@ N M d' TOURVA9, @j R r nsov@,,, And ai tiiej::@6 ow 4gy t W@ OWY p un ai op ;e f b R n jo @d JU 0@, ap Rgq@ p N, S or@ #- st t! 5n btll@r- ugs.: ink e,,,, P gp;b g-an @Oia c ihefi Veterans of past cleanups said Kathy Zeller, another finished their work at noon. CLEAN From B- I more garbage was left on the countywide coordinator, said "We have become a throw-away beaches and drifted with tides in- crews cleaning up Passage Key society. Most people don't even Statewide coordinators from to mangroves this year than in. rescued three pelicans trapped in think what they're doing, it's be- the Center for Marine Conserva- earlier years - an unhappy sign fishing 'line. ..come such a habit," Smith said. '!I elon could not be reached Satur- of Manatee County's. continued The scary moment was when think it's sad. - . . . The trash is 4ay to learn how much garbage growth - an unidentified worker sprucing coming back faster than before.' - was picked up across Florida, one "The overriding 'comment is up Leffis Key across from Coqui- Cleanup volunteer Nick Karas, 15 states conducting beach there are not enough people (C01- na Beach came face-to-face with a 36, of 7016 1 Ith Ave. N.W., owner le-aning campaigns Saturday. lecting garbage) and there is too rattlesnake. The worker was not of a roofing company, said he had : Richard Renninger, 55, of 720 much garbage," said Sarah Mitch- bitten and the snake was un- fun and felt good about helping 2pth St. W., Bradenton, kept his ell, 32, of 1510 Fifth St. W., Pal- harmed. clean Palma Sola Causeway. 16-foot boat on shore and helped metto, - coordinator at the Larry Smith, 39, of 816 69th Karas said he intends to return cl6in Warners Bayou East across Warners Bayou East site. Ave. W., director of the Wildlife for the 1991 cleanup. He hopes to from the 59th Street Boat Ramp... "But'there are six kids working Rescue Service in Bradenton, said have nothing to do. " 'is the boatiamp I always ."I want to walk up and down 1, -This out here', which I think is a really he was sad because litter piles up 46, so this is the area that I good sign," she said. .'If they are almost asjast as volunteers re- here the next time and not am wanted to clean," he said. -I got picking it up today, they won't be e it Indeed, the Palma Sola anything but beach," he said. mov . thwe or four bags (full of . gar- the ones throwing it tomorrow. -Causeway was looking trashy only "Yeah, it's probably just a bete); That's not a whole lot, but Gail 'Straight, one of 'seven hours after Smith and 45 others dream." it helps." countywide cleanup coordinators, Volunteers and cleanup coordi- said preliminary reports of the fa- nators said bottles, cans, plastic vorite hang-out for -littering slobs and paper were the most common was Emerson Point on Snead Is- fifids, but there were some pecu- land. liar trash pickups,too. Renninger "It's really disgusting out fou`nd a wooden -croquet ball in there," she said.."Every. fouror the mangroves. Others found a rive minutes they've had bags rusty metal mailbox, a wooden filled. There's lots and lots of clothes chest, bed springs,. tam- glass bottles there." Pon applicators, car headlights There were both uplifting'and and a washing machine tub. scary mome .rits. ti: _70 oluntee'r'beachcombers I Zp. [14 clean up area coastline this is the first time the sea and By DENISE O'TOOLE :While more than volunteers sky cooperatedwith their plans. 50or combed the coastline of Volusia. "It's always been either too ahd Flagler' counties in Saturday's rough or stormy," said underwater scorching sun picking up at least zone captain Don Serobusek of Or- v mond Beach ,@o tons of.trash, about-a dozen worked to remove hazardous ocean High-rise -condominiums: Were &bris in a much cooler setting barely visible on'the eastern hori- 0 nderwater about 10 miles off zon as EdBest, wearing full scuba u sore- gear, popped up out of the water with a handful of monofilament he occasion was the fourth an- fishing line he just cut from the ar- ua. National Coastal Cleanup sbonsored bv the Center for Ma- tificial reef below. He and his col- 4ne Conservation. The local divers leagues collected several pounds of News-icurnal photo by Lisa Parker and beach policers were among an the fishing line, which often traps Turtle patrol members Are among volunteers bagging beach Otimated 15,000 in the state and fish, turtles and and other sea trash Saturday in Ponce Inlet. @Pps of thousands in the country to creatures that feed off the thriving Jpin in the event. Volunteers not reef. Only time limits prevented miles of fishing line collected in should help to clean up the .qnly removed debris from the them from removing more. the water and on the shorelines beaches and this would help the beach, they took much of it to recy- "You could stay down there as will be recycled. Aluminum cans fish to live." qling centers and forwarded infor- long as you wanted to taking line and glass have been recycled since Ranger Hines repo .rted traIsh wl- mation about what they found to off. There's miles of it," said Mark the event's inception.' Miss Devlin lected from the seashore included the CMC. Krodel, who piloted one of four pointed out that this year, large Jtems from Greece, the. U.S.S.R., On@ of@ the more disturbing dis- boats on the cleanup expedition. numbers of glass containers were Czechoslovakia, Italy and Canada. M overies here was three unmarked 'The reef was created in 1980 by found in areas of the beach where However, the beach Attracted for- allon drums found at Canave- sinking the ship Mindanao, a 440- they are prohibited. .' . . eign volunteers as well. al National Seashore, said Donna foot-long, 62-foot-wide Liberty ship. On Canaveral National Seashore, "We visit, New Smyrna Beach ;evlin, a CMC associate biologist. The accumulation of line and other fbr example, 109 pounds of the to- 'every September," said Vicente Ji- Two of the drums were broken; fishing paraphernalia was a testa- tal 808 pounds of trash collected -menez of Caracas, Venezuela, who 4ne was intact, according to notes ment to the reefs Opularity as a. was glass, she said. The national @ worked with his son. "The beaches filed by the zone captain, Ranger fishing spot. Other items found seashore was one of three collec- are wonderful, the people are all Sandra Hines. The contents and were bricks , and a 38-millimeter tiod sites in Southeast Volusia .-.warm and friendly, so I and my .gin of the drums were unknown gun cartridge, which will be re- County that attracted a.combined son Fernando felt it was our duty 'aturday, Miss Devlin said. cycled, in a way. 250 volunteers. Many - were stu- to help today to clean the .The local divers, members of Or- "When you sort that stuff out, I'd dents, including 6-year-61d Jerrard beaches." nond Anchor Chasers, have tried like to get that lead back if I can. Hanson. In the area from Daytona Beach Q clean fishing line from Liberty My dad'sp reloader," Best shouted "All khis plastic stuff can kill the Shores sotath to Ponce Inlet, about leef on the day of the. national from thewater. fishes khd turtles," Jerrard said. 200 volunteers brought 696 pounds cleanup'each year since 1987, but This year, for the. first time, the "My teacher told us everyone SEE, CLEAN/.3C C1 tween 1,300 and 1,400 pounds of volunteered this year as last Year., down, Ei ean litter were collected on, 18'rnUes of "We hope someday to,.@come s h li About 100 volunteers here and not have anything to pick@ ore ne. CONTINUED -F .Ad.M''IC represented a wide range of ages up," said Rita Alexander-Block, an" and backgrounds. from retirees to employee of Greenpeace Interna-, of trash to'three -collection sta- schoolchildren, tional and a Southeast Volusia; tio ns, reported zone captain Beth. Bayer estimated,400 pounds of zone captain. Libert of Volusta County Turtle Pa- recyclable material was ' collected. The. cleanup also served as 61 trol. Tallies of trash collected on Other beach debris included car campaigning opportunity for candi-_ Daytona Beach and brought to and boat parts,: plastic oil con- dates for the governor's seat H1 Lighthouse Point Park in Ponce In. tainers, a dead turtle and a dead Florida, a state in which,pollsteii let were not available Saturday. shark. say the environment is'a leading Earlier In the week, zone Captain Information sent to CMC after priority of most voters. Maria Viviano, of Sons, of 'the P@evious cleanups has resulted in While Democratic gubernatorial, Beaches, a group often critical the various law changes, including a candidate Lawton Chiles helpe(f- way the county handles beach op- statewide ban on release of lighter- pick up trash in Daytona Beach, in: erations, predicted a good turnout. than-air balloons a nd bans on plas- cumbent Republican Gov. Bov' "The Sons of the Beaches are tic straws at beach concession- Martinez did the same on a @$Pofl working with the county Beach De- stands in some communities. Orga- island in Biscayne Bay. partment on this, so it must be im- nizers said, though, the annual portant," she said cleanups raising of public awam In Flagler County, zone captain ness may be. its greatest achieve- Staff writers Deborah Johnson- Dennis Bayer, of Flagler Conserva-, ment. and,:Mark Miller contribu te'd to.- tion Association, estimated be- Nearly twice as many Volusians this report. Tribune photograph by TPOO L CHAPPEL Students from Hillsbarough Community College litter from the share of Upper Tampa Bay. A large joined hundreds of other volunteers at the Courtney number of crab traps and other trash were hauled Campbell causeway Saturday. to help clear trash and away from the area. "'A Trash-bashers hit beaches (I By MIKE COPELAND and GEOFFREY MOHAN Tribune Staff Writers All of the trash picked off Florida's beaches Set- urday morning was out of place. Like a couch, chairs, a baby rattle. "Even a tol- let;' giggled 8-year-old Carisse. Relmink of Tampa, who joined her parents and thousands of other vol- unteers for the fourth annual Coastal Cleanup Day The day was part of a national effort coordlnate by the Center for Marine Conservation, which ire- ported that Florida led the nation last you In partic- pation, with 15,000 volunteers picking up 200 1 debris along Oil coastal miles. Politicos mixed with thousands of environment I ly conscious trash-bashers throughout Florida, where pollsters say the environment Is a priority of most voters. Environmental Prote- .William Reilly, the U.S. tion-Agency administrator, and Gov. Bob Martinez picked up cans and other trash on a spoil Island In Biscayne Bay, while Martinez's Democratic guiberna, torial challenger, former U.S. Son. Lawton Chilaii, helped pick up trash along Daytona.Beach, In full U.& senatorial splendor - with red, will Its and blue shorts - Bob Graham signed up for the cleanup near the Gandy Bridge but skipped over a table with a petition to support a treaty restricting ocean dumping Tribume pl@ Graham mid the treaty pre-empts state shipping Volunteers fill up trash bags full of litter Saturday on the I Tampa side of the Gandy Bridge. The ores has been used for See CROWDS, Page 7B years as a Illegal dump. 8qAl mber 23, 1990 -st lufi- teef's" scour.' ate., orefine to de ar- rs - a lot of crab markers - and a baby good, and, obviously,one day a year isn't "We saved three horseshoe crabs. They "We attle, said Danny Spencer of St. Peters-. going to doit were tangled in fishing line." said Meekin thought w urg, who helped clean near Weedon Is- One function of the cleanup project, In Buschmann, I, a member of Students for. clean up," addition to simply tidying up, Is to raise Social -Responsibility at Ridgewood High the state "That's the biggest thing we found, old public awareness that Florida waterways School. Regulation oolers and Styrofoarn cups, stuff that form a "fraglie system that needs respect," Buschmann' was among an estimated "When esn't deteriorate," said George Hall, who Walkinshaw said. 530 Pasco volunteers who collected about pretty clea sed a canoe to get. to nearby Mud Island. The worst environmental trash offend- 350 bags of trash at Anclote River Park -team'sta We found a tire with a rim and everything. ers are plastics, particularly fishing line North, Greet Key Beach, Nick's Park"In they foun o wouldn't believe the junk people lose, and the rings that hold together six-packs of Port Richey, the Port Richey Recreation bris and a r throw away." canned beverage he said. area'and the Belcher Mine area in Hudson, grovds. John Walkinshaw, spokesman for the "It breaks your heart to see a sea crea- said Jean Knight county cleanup coordina- "I won uthwest Florida Water Management Dis- ture In agony because It's tangled up In line tor. assume It'l Ict, said trash seemed less omnipresent or just can't -eat because It's beak is stuck In Not everyone confined their labor to -"Somebody an before, partly because of the lasting a, set of plastic rings." beaches close to home. Karen and Dave tects of coastal cleanups over past years. Volunteers at Green Key Beach In Pas- Zell of Brandon traveled to Pinellas County -Staff W' "Certainly, there Is still a lot of trash out co County managed to rescue a few of those to help clean up John R. Bonner Nature bune wire e, he said. "Obviously, any trash is not animals. Park In Largo. port. Litter foes pitch in for Tampa Bay a A H volmt spent their bra heat, fatigue and dirt for the sake of a cleaner shoreline. By CAROL A. MARS IN and TERESA BURNEY Times Staff Writers It the arwater Marine S ence Center. Volunteer Terri Douglas stoo d o the bumper of ath group into wets and drys who would bet whi] collecting trash and those who pre feffed to keep their tennis shoes dry Then she fanning ou onto. the beaches the man groves to collect debris in plastic bag: that came. from. packages marke "Ideal for recycling. Many groups were assigned abou- a mile of. shore clean. e to that it a mile.- For those, of you who don't when you go,. it's mile," Ms. Douglas said. From Tarpon Spain Harbor to' Fort De Soto Park an( B Madeira Beach, hundreds of volun teers walked miles of Pinellas Count nme coastline Saturday to collect trash p.John ine biology class at School The Tampa Bay Da n other area residents near -the eastern point of Fort sparrk on Saturday as part of Tampa Say Day cleanup. From left, Talbhumbley, Tommousa and of a statewide effort to rid Florida'., load their trash on the back of a pickup buck. Please see LITTER Page People n eed to learn to dispose of, their trash in Utter , from Page I J trash can , instead of in the environment," said Dan, beaches of ugly and harmful debris. who scoured the coast at Fort De Soto Park with Volunteers found the predictable: plastic soda can other members of the Seminole Vocational Education- holders, straws, potato chip bags, beer bottles, paper al Center's chapter of Future Farmers of America. nipkins,. h .uge chunks of plastic foam, diapers, candy Dan was one of about 250 people - Boy Scouts (L wrappers, monofilament fishing line, cardboard boxes Girl Scouts., high school and college students, ROT@. members -- who came to the county park Saturday and empty suntan lotion containers. And they found the unpredictable: thong sandals, morning for the cleanup. boat parts, an iron rod, oil filters and car parts, a neon ."I think it's particularly heartening to see so many light tube' a large wooden spool a grated-cheese young people involved, wanting to make a difference, dispenser' @@d a rusty lounge chair' willing to work hard - because it's hard working in . At Collection centers, volunteers sifted through the sun," said Joyce King of Largo, vice president of the garbage and separated it into containers for the St. PetersburgAudubon Society. recycling. Green glass went in one bin, brown glass in Jerri Bohard, cleanup zone captain for the Pinellas another. Volunteers took notes on what was found, so beaches, also was pleased with the turnout. She had they can report to local officials how best to combat expected almost twice as many people as last year. littering. Last year, between 800 and 900 people volun- Michael and B. J. Shaub's discovery won't make it teered in her zone. This year, -the early counts were into any report, but the boys were excited enough to indicating there could have beenas many as 1,500. display their find to visitors at the East Beach in Fort . Volunteers weren't only on the white sandy De Soto Park. The two brothers found a small brown beaches. Many waded in the mud among the man- box turtle. groves along causeways and took boats out to spoil Actually,* they nearly ran over it'while their islands, two areas where trash tends to end up. mother was parking her car. Ann Mackey was digging -into the mangroves "I'm going to read about it in the encyclopedia to along the Clearwater Memorial Causeway for trash. see what it does," said B. J., 10. But that's nothing new for her. "I want to see what the babies look like." "I five here, and I walk this area every chance F He and Michael, 9, learned at North Shore Ele- get," the Island Estates resident said. mentary School that box turtles have shells that open "I never come out without a little trash bag. It's so and close - 'and Pat their new pet is female because pretty,'and I get so upset with the carelessness and it has brown eyes. the not caring.7 The children who picked up trash learned other But she usually picks up trash alone. things as well. For Dan Reynolds, it was that "people :'It's just good to be out with a crowd," she sai are slobs."--' 'Now I know that other people care, too." BOCA BEACON - September 14,1990 It's beach cleanup time again.'. B MARILYN HOECKEL y On Saturday, Sept. 22, volunteers will be combing Florida's beaches to remove ugly and harmful litter left by careless beachgoers and boaters. The statewide effort, in its fourth year, is sponsored by the Center for Marine Conservation. Heidi Lovett, of the Center', said of last September's cleanup, "it was a huge success, and set new records for volunteer participation. Nearly 15,000 volunteers cleaned 911 miles of coast and collected about :200 tons of debris. This was'the largest single cleanup anywhere in the world sur- ...... passing the record set in Flori@a in. 1988.* About .20 people cleaned up You can help prevent this kind of Gasparilla Island last September. tragedy. Over 600 miles of fishing They picked up 18 bags of trash from line was recovered in last fall's about 11 miles of the island's shore- cleanup. It kills by entangling birds line. That's over three tons of, trash. and animals. The statewide beach cleanups are much more than annual litter collec- long-term management recommenda- tion campaigns. Volunteers fill.but tions to the state government. "data cards" on which the types and Local sponsors . for- this ' fall's amounts of trash are carefully noted. cleanup are: The Boca Beacon and The data is then. sent to the Center for BIPS (Barrier Island Parks Society), Marine Conservation and entered into for Gasparillaand Don Pedro islands; a statewide data base. the@Florida Parks Service, for the'bar This information is used to: rier Jsland parks; the. Charlotte @Sun - - provide information on where. litter Her Iald, for.the.:Gas-p-a-rilla@-a6d"66ral- "hot spots" ar6-in Florida; Creek. *.,.Fishing Piers;:@@,-a:n;&Ahe - assess sources of marine debris American Littoral. Society'And:.,the collected; Lemon Bay- High',,", .-.,School particularly assess the quantity of Environmental Club. monofila ment fishing line and discard- Gasparilla islanders are fnvifedlto ed/lost fishing participate in this irn06etaht':@elf6@L. nets (deadly to marine animals and birds); Meet at the* p@arking lot across rom - focus public .attention on the envi7 Hudson's Grocery on Park Ave. at ronmental problems posed by marine 8:30 a.m. sharp Saturday, Sept. 22.': debris;and Trash bags, data cards and pencils produce a report which provides will be provided. Surfing entrepreneurs commit company to environment disposed of properly, it can by Elizabeth Skelton really be a problem, "said Ian- Tony Iannarone and Mark narone. "If the industry's not Reichenstein may seem like going to do anything about it, typical college students with a we can do our part to keep it foundness for surfing. But don't (ocean safe." be fooled by outward appear- Doing their part is donating a ances. percentage of their profits to Though Iannarone and the Center for Marine Conser- Reichenstein are indeed colelge vation (CMC), a national non- students, they are also profit membership organization entrepreneurs who have com- dedicated to protecting marine bined their love of surfing with wildlife and their habitats, and a concern for the environment preserving coastal and ocean to launch the Clean Ocean resources. Surfboard line. "Right now, we're donating 8 The two roommates said that percent of of our profit margin," their business venture was not said Iannarone. "Once we get financially motivated. Their going we're going to donate 3 to main cause was to be help ease 5 percent on a semi-annual some of the environmental basis. That amount will actu- problems the surfing industry ally be larger than what we're creates. giving now after we get going." "That was the main backing Currently, their donation is behind the boards," said earmarked to benefit the Reichenstein. "We wanted to Florida Coastal Cleanup, try and start a trend in the CMC's annual event - held surfing industry where its this past weekend - to clean responsible for its actions." the beaches and shorelines. According to Iannarone and "Before he ever started Clean Reichenstein, ages 22 and 21 Ocean, Tony was planning on respectively, the rosin and foam giving a percentage of gross used to make surfboards in haz- receipts to an environmental ardous to oceans. "If it's not See Surf on page 4 Tony lannarone and Mark Reichenstein have committed a percentage of their Company's profits to aiding the coastal environment. (Photo by Diane Uhley) ardous to oceans. "If it's not zwri 0 Continued from page 1 lannarone and Reichenstein, school., group,", said Heidi Lovett of r@both New Jersey natives, said, Iannarone teare'd he wouldn't 'they have sold 30 of the 40 be in school if Clean Ocean CMC's St.Petersburg office-. .: 'His portion to us is for the .:surfboards shaped by local Surfboards didn't succeed. "I coastal cleanup. Besides his surfboard shaper Howard Tan- borrowed $3,000 from my col- donations, he's been real help- ner. lege money to start this,* he . Locally, the surfboards are laughed. ful by distributing materials (brochures, posters) for us.' sold at South Coast Surf Shop He and partner Reichenstein The environmental base of on Mayport Road, owned by said that Clean Ocean Surf- Clean Ocean Surfboards was a Reichenstein. He is taking a board sales are growing at strong selling point for Ian- break from classes at Jack- steady pace, "so that we don't narone and Reichenstein when sonville University (JU) this have to borrow or run into a they began traveling to surf semester to devote more time' debt ratio". shops along the East Coast six to his business. Iannarone said he's been months ago with the first 12 lannarone, a marketing researching the surfboard mar. prototypes of their product. senior at JU, said that his edu- kets in France and Spain for "Most people really liked the cation was an asset when he the future. name and the idea of helping :was forming Clean Ocean Surf- @ "Right now, we just want to the environment," said Ian boards., "My education helped. supply consumers with quality, narone. "They- were also satis- quite a bit'. I,took'a business- high performance products that, fled with the performance of class right after we started! let them expiess themselves," the product." that hag really helped me he said. "We want to do our Performance was another understand the concepts of. part to insure that our children aspect that Iannarone and financing much better than L have oceans to swim in and fish Reichenstein, who have surfed would have without being in to catch.' for 22 years collectively, were concerned with when designing their surfboards. 'We were just kind of sick of the way the surfing industry was taking advantage of the buying public," said Reichen- stein. ."You pay a lot for the big names, but those companies are providing the public with a low quality product. Right now, the average cost of a big name board is around $325 to $425." He said that an avid surfer will need to replace surfboards, annually. Clean Ocean Surfboards retail for $295 to $345. They.. are currently being sold in surf- shops in New Jersey, Virginia and Florida. Coast-to-coast cleanup Lend a hand in the three- hour cleanup of America's coasts and you won't just be making beaches more beautiful, you'll be col- lecting valuable data. The Center for Marine Conservation, which coor- dinates the annual cleanup, uses the trash-collection data to go after polluters. Last year, 65,000 people collected 860 tons of trash. This year's cleanup will take place Saturday, Sep- tember 22 in most states; for information, contract the Center at (202)429-5609 on the East Coast or (415) 391-6204 on the West Coast. In history's footsteps Ellis Island, the site where over twelve million immigrants first set foot in America, opens an Immigration Museum this month, after a pains- taking six-year renovation of the Beaux Arts main building. september A renovated Ellis Island reopens as the museum of Immigration. names of individuals or families who immigrated through any U.S. port of entry are being inscribed on the American Immigrant Wall of Honor; for a $100 donation, can still add a name in time for the 1992 Centennial. act the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., at 2)883-1986. The roots of freedom Most of us don't remember much of what we learned about the Civil War, yet its echoes still rever- berate. The Civil War, an epic documentary on PBS this offers an insightful examination of what began as a conflict over states' rights and ended as a strug- gle to define the meaning of freedom in our coun- try. The acclaimed series will fun five consecutive nights - September 23 through 27. Check local list- ings for times. The grand dame of mystery Agatha Christie mysteries have sold some two billion copies worldwide, and her cunning plots continue to enjoy a wide audience. To mark the one hundredth anniversary of her birth on September 15, Berkley Books is reissuing all her novels, Murder maven Agatha Christie celebrates a centennial along with the Agatha Christie Compaion, by Dennis Sanders and Len Lovalo ($12.95). Their picks for the best of Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the ABC Murders, Five Little Pigs and A Murder Is Announced. Bali high Batik and the sarong are just two of Indonesia's cultural contributions; celebrate all the riches of this exotic island culture at the Festival of Indonesia, traveling throughout the U.S. this fall and next year. The Festival starts this month with a gala performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., The Sculpture of Indonesia exhibit at the National Gallery and the Court Arts of Indonesia at the Asia Society Galler- ies in New York. It will include film, dance and music performances, and textile, photography and art exhib- its in more than forty other cities. Do your heart good. Most women assume heart disease is something they don't have to worry about, but, in fact, it is the leading cause of death among women. On Thursday, Sep- tember 13, hospitals across the country will participate in CountDown USA: The Na- tional HEart Check, a screening for the risk factors associated with ehart disease. Get your blood pressure and cholesterol lev- els checked for $5 or less. To find the loca- tion nearest you, call (800)468-6842. 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