Photo by David Stone
"Please Help TCI Shine All Year Long!" This was the TCI Environmental Clubs message for last Saturday's clean-up. Big thanks to the artistic skills of several kids at the Edward C. Gartland Youth Centre.
Photo by PepperKeyStacie
Participants in the Turks and Caicos Hotel and Tourism Association's TCI Shines Campaign showed up bright and early at 6:30am at the Lower Bight Park. Here are the teams and individuals we all have to thank for making Providenciales cleaner and greener:
Much to my disappointment, after seeing 36 new volunteers sign-up at the Volunteer Fair and all 200 members of the TCI Environmental Club alerted via our facebook page, only ten of us turned up for this great initiative. Unlike last year, where the event saw far more partipants, we were unable to meet our goal of 700 bags collected. The good news is that for the very first time, we were able to separate recyclables from the litter, all of which was so generously collected by TCI Waste.
Huge thanks to IGA and Graceway Gourmet for their Earth Day efforts
Tomorrow is Earth Day, please get out there and Clean It Up and join our Campaign to Ban Single Use Plastic Bags in the TCI. Lynn Robinson and I made note of how many plastic bags we collected over the 3 hours and tallied over 150 plastic bags removed during TCI Shines with just the two of us! Please shop with thought and bring your own reusable bags, don't use a toxic plastic bag designed to last over 1,000 years for ten needless minutes and then throw it away to pollute our environment. If you see someone littering in TCI, please educate them on why they shouldn't. Let them know there will be a bottle deposit coming soon to a parking lot near them and to keep those beverage containers as they will be worth CASH!
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