The Friends of Jean Klock Park is hosting an Earth Day beach cleanup event as part of the Alliance for the Great Lakes’ Adopt-a-Beach program. Every year, thousands of volunteers participate in cleanups across all five Great Lakes. Volunteers remove tens of thousands of pounds of litter, most of it plastic, from Great Lakes shorelines.
The event starts at 9:00 am and lasts until 12:00 pm.
Jean Klock Park is located off M-63 and Klock Rd. We will meet in the enter of the park near the bathhouse.
Volunteers clean up litter and record their findings in the Alliance for the Great Lakes’ online Adopt-a-Beach database. About 85% of the litter volunteers remove from Great Lakes shorelines is made of plastic. In addition to keeping Great Lakes beaches and shorelines clean, Adopt-a-Beach volunteers keep tens of thousands of pounds of plastic and other litter out of the Great Lakes each year. Plastic never goes away. It just breaks up into smaller pieces called “microplastics” that end up on our water.
The data volunteers collect is added to a global dataset for researchers to use to better understand plastic pollution. Communities can also use the data to understand and address the most common types of litter found on local shorelines.
Joining an Adopt-a-Beach event is easy and open to everyone. To join the event, volunteers can sign up online at: adopt.greatlakes.org
To find out more about the Alliance’s Adopt-a-Beach program, visit www.greatlakes.org/adoptabeach For more information about this event contact: Carol Drake at cappyssong@aol.com or 269-921-0900.
