brought trash back as far as the fence around the park. Too bad there are no garbage cans at the south end of the park. Another 27 lbs was collected by an OceanHourFL volunteer - 22 water bottles
Hobo Beach saw Andy collect 85 lbs of trash
Week of Aug 1st. What do you collect over 1,824 steps..
along Scenic Hwy - 22 lbs of trash on this stretch of Scenic Hwy that 36 lbs was collected 14 days earlier. Also 12 water bottles were added to the total on the home page for 2020 collected by myself. On the same day Andy & Tammy collected 23 lbs at Park West and 47 at Bay Bluffs.
Aug 5th two cleanups were reported - Shelley with one garbage bag of mowed trash along Scenic @ Bay Bluffs (8 lbs) and David & Clara @ GINS picked up 16 lbs. When lbs are not reported, I estimate using the average per volunteer per hour of 8 lbs. Another 9 water bottles along Spanish Trail
Total so far this week is 124 lbs
Week of July 18th...
with the number of individual cleanups, will summarize on a weekly basis.
Tammy (photographer) & Andy on the island in Bayou Texar collected 112 lbs of trash
Jul 20th, Joe had two pickups along Hwy 98, NLO & Midwayy area. Total lbs of 51. Thanks
Week of July 11th
Can you guess how many beer cans in this small stretch of shoreline at Chimney Park?
July 11 - 28 lbs collected at Chimney Park
- 49 lbs at Naval Live Oaks
July 15 - 16 lbs of toys @ Park East
July 17 - 36 lbs at Chimney Park
There were 12 beer cans of various kinds!
Week of July 4th. Individual cleanups started this week
Starting with Andy & Tammy - Bruce Beach 86 lbs. Jen & John in Milton for 25 lbs. Mowe Family at Naval Live Oaks collected 10 lbs. Another couple collected 5#’s at the Soundside Foundation Nature Preserve. Mary used our website email to report 4 lbs of food wrappers & paper along Hwy 98 at NLO. Thanks for using the website. If you can’t guess the weight of trash I’ll use the weekly average of 8 lbs per volunteer.
130 lbs for the week.
Jun 29th OceanHour received a $1,500 donation from
This is their third donation! Thank you!
Their website
Jun 27th Volunteers at Dog Park West at the beach...
collected 75 lbs of trash. A lot of small, light pieces of “stuff”. A further 29 lbs was collected at the waterline on Hobo Beach. The volunteer stopped counting disposable lighters and Sharpies at 10+!
For the month of June, 1,100 lbs of trash was collected for the year’s total of 8,015 lbs. More than collected in all of 2016. And ~ same amount as the first six months of 2018.
Gulf Power Awarded OCEAN HOUR FL a $1,000 grant this week
Jun 20th Truly hot day to pick up trash at ...
three sites; Graffiti Bridge, Bartram and Wayside Park. 343 lbs was collected! The third Saturday of 300+ lbs since March 1st.
Jun 13th Part of Boy Scouts Troop 417 helped ....
pick up a total of 22 volunteers pick up 232 lbs of trash at Bay Bluffs Park. A further 83 lbs was collected at Chimney Park by 22 more volunteers