LIFE ON HIMES
Causeway
CLEANUP
In the middle
of a holiday
weekend, Jesuit’s
Environmental
Club was out in
force, cleaning up
Tampa Bay
Environmental Club members, along with
faculty and family supporters, charted the
garbage collected on the Clean Swell app
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to be of service to their community,
-
the Tampa Bay coastline.
collection data, the volunteers broke
into groups and carefully negotiated
the slippery rocks along the Tampa Bay
shoreline to remove garbage trapped
and
and .
Fishing line was amomg dozens of
types of trash the Environmental
Club cleaned up on Sept. 6
Club moderator
, counselors
Fernando RodriguesKrista Jones,
Pete
Young-
bers, also participated.
The volunteers broke into sever-
to pick up litter. The trash collected
included hundreds of beverage cans and
bottles, more than a thousand bottle
caps, plastic bags, styrofoam cups and
more.
-
vironmental Club annually participates
in Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful events. The
club has several more clean-up events
scheduled for later this year, including
the post-Gasparilla Parade Cleanup in
January and the Great American Cleanup
in the spring.
The Environmental Club is highly visible
on campus. Runkle spoke at Convocation
all school buildings every Friday, and the
club has helped implement numerous
green initiatives on campus in recent
years.
Environmental Club members dug out hundreds of
pieces of garbage from the rock crevices along the
causeway