
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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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!!
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Thanks everyone!
Mike Davis
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
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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
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
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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.