AS CHRISTMAS nears, the Rotaract Club of Kingston has given a gift to the environment and, by extension, the people who use it, with the recent removal of more than 630 pounds of plastic and other waste from the Rae Town Fishing Village and the Palisadoes shores.
Donning their masks and with their gloves on and garbage bags in hand, two teams of 10 persons from the club cleared plastics and other waste. In just two hours, the groups had covered a 5.22 mile radius and collected 636 pounds of garbage.
Inside the 50-plus bags collected were more than 600 plastic bottles, over 3,000 bottle covers, some 300 plastic lighters, Styrofoam pieces, and glass bottles.