Have you noticed that there’s a lot of trash around Nosara? You can help clean it up by joining with the Nosara Recycling Association. On Saturday, May 28, at 8 a.m. Nosara students, residents, and businesses are joining together to clean up our neighborhoods. Visitors are welcome, too!

The cleanup is being organized geographically. Each section will have a leader. To sign up, contact Nosararecicla@gmail.com

Look for more information on Facebook and around town.

Here are some facts to think about between now and then:

• The average person creates 4.6 pounds of waste every day.
• If every person picked up just one piece of litter today, there would be over 300 million fewer pieces of litter. If every person picked up 10 pieces of litter, there would be 3 billion fewer pieces.
• In one single day, nearly 7 million pounds of litter were removed from beaches, lakes, and streams.
  Source: Every Monday Matters by Matthew Emerzian and Kelly Bozza
• Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the 20th century.
• We throw away enough plastic each year to circle the earth four times.
• Plastic in the ocean breaks down into such small segments that pieces from a one-liter bottle could end up on every mile of beach throughout the world.
• One million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed annually from ocean plastic.
• Forty-four percent of all seabird species, 22 percent of cetaceans, all sea turtle species, and a growing list of fish species have been documented with plastic in or around their bodies.
  Source: Ocean Plastics Pollution
• Glass can be recycled endlessly with no loss in quality or purity.
• Over a ton of natural resources are conserved for every ton of glass recycled, including 1,300 pounds of sand, 410 pounds of soda ash, 380 pounds of limestone, and 160 pounds of feldspar.
• For every six tons of recycled container glass used, a ton of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, is reduced.
  Source: Glass Packaging Institute

Please help us clean up Nosara!