B.S., summa cum laude, Florida Atlantic University Honors College
Haley works on the Beyond Plastics campaign to end the use of single-use plastics at the state and federal levels. Haley lives in Maryland where she enjoys hiking and video games.
Plastic is everywhere. It’s in the air we breathe, food we eat and water we drink. It’s also found in some of the most remote places in the world. This deluge of plastics is not only threatening our environment and wildlife, but also our own health.
To combat the plastic pollution crisis, we all need to work together, starting with banning the most unnecessary single-use products in our communities and holding companies responsible for the waste their products create. While many of us are already using reusable grocery bags, water bottles and coffee cups, we need actual policies in place to make lasting change and ensure these products never have a chance to pollute the environment or our communities.
B.S., summa cum laude, Florida Atlantic University Honors College
Haley works on the Beyond Plastics campaign to end the use of single-use plastics at the state and federal levels. Haley lives in Maryland where she enjoys hiking and video games.
Plastic is everywhere. It’s in the air we breathe, food we eat and water we drink. It’s also found in some of the most remote places in the world. This deluge of plastics is not only threatening our environment and wildlife, but also our own health.
To combat the plastic pollution crisis, we all need to work together, starting with banning the most unnecessary single-use products in our communities and holding companies responsible for the waste their products create. While many of us are already using reusable grocery bags, water bottles and coffee cups, we need actual policies in place to make lasting change and ensure these products never have a chance to pollute the environment or our communities.
Jersey Shore fall beach sweeps brought in 185,000 pieces of garbage including discarded PPE
One of the earliest annual events to be canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic last year in New Jersey was Clean Ocean Action s spring Beach Sweeps, which organizers said was nixed for maybe only the second time in 35 years.
So when the fall Beach Sweeps returned last October, volunteers uncovered more than their usual share of unusual items, including something that would be very much in the news throughout the rest of the fall and into early winter. A Trump 2020 flag, so certainly signs of the times here in our Roster of the Ridiculous, and there s many, many more included in the report, Alison Jones, COA Watershed Program coordinator, said.
Make beaches great again: Trump flag, lots of PPE in shore sweep
One of the earliest annual events to be canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic last year in New Jersey was Clean Ocean Action s spring Beach Sweeps, which organizers said was nixed for maybe only the second time in 35 years.
So when the fall Beach Sweeps returned last October, volunteers uncovered more than their usual share of unusual items, including something that would be very much in the news throughout the rest of the fall and into early winter. A Trump 2020 flag, so certainly signs of the times here in our Roster of the Ridiculous, and there s many, many more included in the report, Alison Jones, COA Watershed Program coordinator, said.