International Coastal Cleanup

A couple of Saturday’s ago, a team of Beaconfire staffers and families joined Ocean Conservancy for their annual International Coastal Cleanup.  Every year, teams around the world give up their Saturday to clean up all the crap that’s been dumped along our local shore lines.  There were teams working along rivers, lakes, oceans, and streams doing what we can to prevent our local crap from floating out to sea and becoming international crap and doing more damage to marine wildlife.  Our team worked along the Anacostia River in Washington, DC.  Last year, this event cleaned up 6 million pounds of debris off of 33,000 miles of shoreline in 76 countries by 378,000 participants.  Once the event coordinators of this year’s event finish tallying the results, we’re hoping to have made an even bigger impact.  (On a side note, Beaconfire is also proud to have built the online tool the event coordinators are using to report the results from thousands of events around the world.)  In photo from left to right: Elizabeth Engel, Lynn Labieniec, Mickie Cervino, Eric Eckl, Jennifer Bagnall-Stuart, Killian Cervino, Kindra Tully, Kristin Niemi-Gillig, Jeff Herron, Michael Cervino, Taylor Snook.