
CLEANING UP YOUR ACT
PALM BEACH COUNTY RESIDENTS PITCH IN
TO CLEAR TRASH IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.
Published: Sunday, April 2, 1995
Section: LOCAL
Page: 3B
By LORI CROUCH Staff Writer
Staff Writer Luisa Yanez contributed to this report.
The litter strewn on Palm Beach County beaches, along the roads, in
neighborhoods and in vacant lots varied from cigarette butts to water heaters,
mattresses and boat debris, but it had one thing in common: Volunteers were out
to clean it up.
About 2,000 volunteers across Palm Beach County participated in the third
annual Great Florida Cleanup on Saturday, clearing trash and litter from the
beaches, roads, vacant lots and neighborhoods.
The 33 volunteers at Red Reef Park in Boca Raton filled 36 bags of trash,
said Dawn Maloney, coordinator of the Red Reef cleanup.
"Everyone came back very red-faced - as in tired-red," Maloney
said.
Gumbo Limbo Nature Center will sponsor one of its quarterly beach cleanups on
May 13.
Less trash will clutter Palmetto Park Road and Interstate 95 after a Boy
Scout troop and PC Professor cleared it. Among the items found were tires, a
radiator and a capped syringe. It took 40 trash bags to clear the litter, said
PC Professor spokeswoman Renay Kitain.
By Saturday afternoon, the main tipping station for trash pickup had seen
400,000 pounds of trash. Trucks will deliver the debris until Tuesday. By then,
Kathy Duzan, cleanup coordinator for the Palm Beach County Solid Waste
Authority, predicts about 2 million pounds of trash will have been delivered.
Malissa Booth, executive director of Beautiful Palm Beaches, said
neighborhoods and cities large and small were involved in the cleanup. People in
Palm Beach Shores - population 1,040- cleared its beach, while people in
Atlantis - population 1,653 - cleared major roads that lead into its community.
This is the second year Palm Beach County has participated in the statewide
cleanup.
One of Broward County's cleanup efforts was tied in with Earth Day on
Saturday. About 50 volunteer children and adults in Wilton Manors scoured the
city streets picking up trash and planting flowers, said Rebecca Thacker, the
city's assistant recreation director.
"We'll know tomorrow how much trash was picked up," she said.
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