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I am the Program Coordinator for a non-profit organization called Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful. We are an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful and are coordinating the Great American Cleanup (April 19) on a local level. Hillsborough County is on the west coast of Florida and encompasses Tampa.
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Aron Fujita, left, and Tina Fujita plant a pine tree in Temple Terrace during the Great American Cleanup on April 19. Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful, Temple Terrace Parks & Recreation Department and TREE partnered for the event, where 32 volunteers planted 40 pines trees.

Volunteers from Wimauma unload some trash in a roll-off container at 18202 U.S. Hwy. 301 during the Great American Cleanup. Twenty-eight volunteers cleaned four miles of roadways collecting 4,480 pounds of trash. Families who lived in the area saw the cleanup and came out to help the volunteers who had pre-registered for the event.

Volunteers from Heather Lakes in Brandon pick up trash during the Great American Cleanup, coordinated by Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful. Forty-four volunteers cleaned five miles of roadway, five acres of parks, one playground/recreation area and two acres of wetlands collecting an estimated 1,200 pounds of trash.

Joe Marzilli removes some fishing line from the Apollo Beach Nature Preserve from a monofilament recycling tube during the Great American Cleanup. Marzilli along with 79 volunteers removed an estimated 500 pounds of debris during the cleanup. The fishing line will be sent off to Berkeley Recycling, where it will be made into fishing tackle boxes and freshwater fish habitats. Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful coordinates the Great American Cleanup on an annual basis as well as the Monofilament Recovery & Recycling Program.

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Upcoming 2008 Events

August 8: Awards Luncheon and Silent Auction August 27: Hyde Park Village Live Music Concert September 20: International Coastal Cleanup events in Hillsborough County, FL

Posted on May 27, 2008 at 1:05pm —

Andrea Barber

Great American Cleanup 2008 was a terrific success!

A clear and sunny day allowed more than 2,300 volunteers to clean up and green up parks, playgrounds, shorelines, roadways and more on April 19 during the 15th Annual Great American Cleanup. Preliminary results show that volunteers cleaned more than 87 miles of streets, 312 acres of parks, 21 miles of hiking/nature trails, 12 playgrounds and community recreation areas, 41 miles of shorelines and waterways and 19 acres of wetlands. An estimated 67,509 pounds of trash was collected during the cle… Continue

Posted on May 27, 2008 at 12:52pm —

Andrea Barber

Great American Cleanup - April 19, 2008

15th ANNUAL Great American Cleanup SATURDAY, April 19, 2008, CHECK-IN: 8:30 A.M., CLEANUP: 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. Pick the location of your choice Trash bags are provided. T-shirts and giveaways while supplies last! Locations: • Apollo Beach Nature Preserve, 6767 Surfside Blvd., Apollo Beach • Brandon High School, 1101 Victoria St., Brandon • Brooker Creek Headwaters, Ramblewood Road, Odessa • Camp Bayou Preserve, 4140 24th St. S.E., Ruskin • Causeway Blvd., between old Seabreeze Restaurant &… Continue

Posted on March 28, 2008 at 11:46am —

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At 6:58pm on July 29, 2008, earthday78(Mike Davis) said…
I am currently in a contest hosted by Timberland with there EarthKeepers site, to be a Change Agent, to help finance a great environmental cause...anyone that is environmentally conscious, please check out my site:

www.changents.com/ResponsibleSmokersAct

then register and "back" my "cause". If i get enough attention i might be able to make this life long dream of mine, come true. I was born on Earth Day of '78 and from about 13 years i have tried to gain interest in someone else to help for this non profit.

My organization hopes to educate on the environmental impact of cigarette litter. But what makes this idea unique, is that i want to collect cigarettes to make cigarette collection facilities out of them. which in turn print educational material on them....in a way a self-sustaining perpetual infrastructure.

Anyone that smokes or just hates cigarette litter or environmental hearted please join me and help make Responsible Smokers Act a reality

I am asking for obvious partners of sponsors, lawyers, accountants,web designers, graphic artist, photographers, environmental and civil servants, please if you think you can offer anything that would solve the problem of cancerous materials being littered by the trillions into everyday surroundings.
I will give anyone a chance to do there part for the Earth

If you have seen the movie Erin Brocovich. the environmental moral of that story is... Sometimes small doses, administered over a long time, makes our bodies absorb the same chemicals as if you where to smoke the original cigarette itself.

* Cigarette pollution cost millions to our public utilities in each state.

* Animals can very easily dies from the ingestion of small amounts of Butts.

* Cigarettes are made from cellulose Acetate, which is a host for the Bioaccumulotoxins, which delivers those thousand of cancerous chemicals to everywhere humans exists, our environment!

This seems to be the decade of GREEN living, i hope this gives me my chance to form a group to make a great impact on the world!!

please re-post this to any Green person or smoker

Responsible Smokers Act
www.changents.com/ResponsibleSmokersAct
www.myspace.com/Earthday78

Thanks everyone!
Mike Davis
At 3:15am on March 29, 2008, B. Marshall-Jones said…
Dear Andrea

Have a great Cleanup on the 19th. We have a beach clean up on Earth Day also.... it is amazing what washes up from the ocean.
Hope you have a wonderful Earth Day every day!

Peace,
Bruce
Please visit my website: EnergyIndependenceToday.com... an inexpensive way to upgrade your home to solar energy and actually save some money in the process... :)
At 12:38pm on March 28, 2008, Callie said…
I am interested in learning more about what planning went into your Great American Cleanup that will be on April 19th this year. Any guidance would be much appreciated!
At 11:14pm on February 7, 2008, earthday78(Mike Davis) said…
i want to try to put up a nation wide cleanup cigarette butt count map....i also want to start something like what you do....any guidance is greatly appreciated...this is for my RSA(Responsible Smokers Act) non-profit, trying to get P2 grant status....
At 7:56am on February 6, 2008, patrick said…
hi
Andrea thanks for your reply i appreciate. hope you are fine over there.
there are very many ways of help and here we are looking both physical and spiritual support if you would like to be involved with our work please feel free to send us email: raisinguphope@gmail.com
At 2:19pm on February 4, 2008, patrick said…
Hi andrea
how are doing? i am impressed about the good job that you are doing over there and i would like you to join me on this siste i am from uganda east africa and i am work with an organization that working with children that who are abandoned, neglected, thrown on streets and orphans here plz i would like you and your friend that has heart to change the world too please you can get more information if you contact us raisinguphope@gmail.com
i will be happy to hear from you
At 10:04am on January 22, 2008, Andrea Barber said…
Christine, the executive director of KHCB, and I were out around the USF University Area Community Center Complex for the annual Stampede of Service on Saturday, January 19. We had over 160 volunteers that worked to beautify the center grounds and collect approximatley 40 bags of trash, 5 tires, 7 shopping carts, a car bumper, old carpeting, and window panes for proper disposal.

To celebrate MLK Day, Christine and I were at it again with two different volunteer groups. I was in a residential area off of Lithia Pincrest Rd just north of the Alafia River bridge. My group of 18 volunteers from the UT PEACE organization collected 18 bags of litter, a tire, and an old road block sign. Christine worked with volunteers from USF to clean up the area around the Alafia River bridge on Lithia Pinecrest Rd. They filled a big rolloff container with illegally dumped materials! Congrats to all who helped! You made a big difference yesterday.

Take a look at our pics from these events! They're great.
At 1:20pm on January 18, 2008, Andrea Barber said…
Please join us on April 19, 2008 for the Great American Cleanup. We will have approximately 30 different sites within Hillsborough County, FL where volunteers will be meeting to pick up any and all litter that they can find around their site. It's really a great day of fun! You get to meet new people, hang out with friends, and do some good for the Earth. Visit my group page, Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful or our website at www.khcbonline.org.
 
 

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