East campus students to clean up beach trash
Pembroke Pines Charter East Elementary students are storming the beaches ept. 19 to rage warfare against trash-throwers who litter on South Florida’s garbage-strewn beaches.
Roughly 150 charter “beach patrol” students sporting blue and yellow T-shirts are taking aim at errant rubbish-tossers during the 24th Annual International Coastal Clean-up.
The early morning effort takes crews of parents, guardians, friends and students enrolled at Charter East campus, 10801 Pembroke Road, along a mile-long stretch of Hollywood’s North Beach Park, 3501 N. Ocean Drive in Hollywood.
Here, the packs’ll scour the coast between Sheridan and Johnson Streets for items like cigarette butts, bottle caps, shards of glass and other beach pollutants, all geared toward discouraging future refuse in favor of recycling.
The annual cleanup is hosted by the Ocean Conservancy, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit aimed at opposing practices that threaten beach life and ocean ecosystems like Florida’s coral reef system.
Pines Charter East campus students also join dozens of local school cleanup crews and boy and girl scout troops across 12 sites in Broward County.





PHILLIP VALYS