Paddling

Is cleaning up the garbage in our rivers and harbors really hopeless? No not really. Just look at this video from the Pasaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners. This is what they do to clean up the Newark Bay and New York Harbor. After you see the video, join us for the beach side clean up--just to help get the little stuff.

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In the article "Message in a Bottle" by David Ferris (May-June 2009) Sierra - the magazine of the Sierra Club, we learned that the small pieces of plastic are as dangerous as the larger bottles. These small plastics are eaten by birds and fish that then die of starvation for lack of space for food in their stomachs. Small plastics are often not recyclable and must be burned. In our everyday lives we need to dump small plastics into the garbage for incineration. Make sure you don't drop small plastic items in the street where they will wash into the river and ocean.

Clean-up Event:

Join the Bayonne Nature Club for a shoreline clean-up. Click on JOIN THIS MAILING LIST (above) and we'll let you know of the next clean-up event.

Garbage bags, pick-up sticks and gloves will be provided, but feel free to bring any kind of equipment you prefer to use. Bring water and any snacks you may want. Bring any ideas you have for future shoreline clean-ups that the Bayonne Nature Club can consider. Let’s make it happen!

Here's what

we did on the

January 28, 2012 shore clean-up at 16th Street park:

Shawn, Kent, Mike and Patricia (who took the picture) worked from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. picking up 25 bags of mostly plastic bottles and shopping bags. We also picked up 4 wood pallets, and numerous large pieces of plastic pipes and styrofoam--including a car fender and grocery cart.