April 29th, 2011
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Author: The Alliance for the Great Lakes, a Chicago-based non-profit, is looking for volunteers interested in leading beach cleanups and monitoring Lake Michigan water conditions.
In the Adopt-a-Beach program, volunteers adopt a section of Lake Michigan beach and visit it several times a year, picking up trash, performing a simple bacteria test and taking other notes on water condition and quality.
The results get fed into the Alliance’s website, where it’s used to spot pollution trends.
Schools and community organizations in Wisconsin are hosting cleanups this spring that are open to the public. The next one in Milwaukee will be held by the Downtown Montessori Academy at the South Shore Park beach. Go here to request information on this cleanup or others.
Clean-up teams evidently take careful notes on the rubbish they pick up from beaches.
The Alliance reports that in 2010, Wisconsin adopters and other volunteers picked up 16,624 cigarettes and cigarette filters, 3,652 bottle caps and drink lids, 2,750 food wrappers and containers, 2,407 plastic bags, 1,751 plastic beverage bottles, 1,496 cigar tips and 1,356 straws and stirrers.
Other finds included 11 items of drug paraphernalia, 20 light bulbs and tubes and 21 cars or car parts.
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