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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreLearn 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.
Read MoreLearn 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreWhen 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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