If you’re ready to get outside but you’d rather avoid the beach due to Red Tide, lots of other fun activities await you.
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At Keep Pinellas Beautiful, one of the ways we protect and conserve our natural environment is by removing invasive vegetation from our county’s green spaces. Though they may look harmless, invasive plants are detrimental to native ecosystems and need human intervention to get rid of.
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Keep Pinellas Beautiful has developed our new Hospitality Eco-Partnership program to engage hotels and guests in environmental protection, conservation, and volunteering.
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On April 22nd we celebrate Earth Day, and our Pinellas County beach cleanups and volunteering opportunities are in full swing. Earth Day is frequently the date chosen for environmental events and announcements, and we’re excited to celebrate with all of you this year.
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Everyone involved with Keep Pinellas Beautiful, both staff and volunteers, cares about leaving a positive impact on the Earth while reducing our negative impact. An interesting tool for helping us understand these impacts is the Ecological Footprint calculator.
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Wetlands are vital, productive ecosystems that support a variety of species and offer services that humans depend on. As a coastal county, Pinellas is especially dependent on wetland services to mitigate erosion, protect against storm surges, and provide nutrients to the plant and animal species we enjoy seeing in our green spaces.
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When you join our Adoption Program, you commit to a two-year agreement, during which you keep your mile litter-free. Our adoptees are an essential part in the ongoing stewardship that keeps Pinellas County beautiful, and we wouldn’t be able to protect our paradise without them.
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This year, use your New Year’s resolution to give back to the environment. These simple ideas won’t eat up a bunch of time or effort, but they’re a great starting point for becoming a better environmental steward in 2021.
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Learn 5 simple tips for reducing your grocery shopping waste. From choosing sustainable products to refusing packaging, you can enhance your environmental stewardship by shopping intelligently.
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Learn more about the state of microplastics in the world, including how many fragments are currently in our oceans and how much plastic enters the environment each year.
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This year, Keep Pinellas Beautiful will be partnering with the Ocean Conservancy to host the 35th Annual ICC during the month of October. We love this event because it gives our participants the chance to become citizen scientists, and this year it’s all about grassroots efforts by volunteers like you.
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When you think of items breaking down in the environment, you might picture food waste or plant material slowly decomposing into its component parts and providing food for bugs, worms, and bacteria. Plastic in the environment doesn’t react like that. Current scientific research indicates that plastic will never fully decompose; instead, plastic will keep breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces called microplastics.
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We’re so proud of everyone who’s participated in #PickUpPinellas so far! In celebration of what you’ve achieved, we’d like to highlight the program and its participants as of today.
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Learn 4 easy ways to change your habits and reduce waste in your daily life, including how to recycle in Pinellas County and when to choose reusable items.
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