Alarming amounts of single-use plastics collected during ICC 2023. | SMN NEWS

PHILIPSBURG:— On Saturday, September 16th, more than 100 volunteers attended this year’s International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) at Little Bay Beach & Pond, near Belair, hosted by Environmental Protection in the Caribbean Sint Maarten (EPIC) and the St. Maarten Pride Foundation, in collaboration with the St. Maarten Development Fund (SMDF). A total of 2000.5 pounds of trash was collected, of which 763.4 lbs were glass and plastic bottles. This excluded heavy construction material also found during the clean-up.

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