Weird Finds & Impressive Turnout at Rockaway
November 4th’s beach cleanup at Rockaway Beach was a success with an impressive turnout of 78 dedicated volunteers.
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October Surprises At Rockaway Cleanup!
What a day of surprises and dedication at the Rockaway Beach cleanup this October!
Read moreCreating Lasting Impact At Rockaway Beach
137 volunteers from various schools and communities joined forces at Rockaway Beach.
Read more40 Volunteers Came Together to Clean Up Rockaway
The colunteers collected a total of 45 pounds of trash and 600 cigarette butts from the beach.
Read moreThe Rockaway Show Goes On Despite Brutal Weather!
Despite the brutal weather conditions that ravaged the coastline, the January 7th cleanup at Rockaway went on. 12 wonderful volunteers joined and collected 32 pounds of trash, 350 cigarette butts, and 4 buckets of recyclables, including lots of styrofoam that had washed up on the shore. Unfortunately, many of the cigarette butt cans have been destroyed by weather or wear, […]
Read moreRainbows at Rockaway
Rockaway’s May Clean Up greeted us with a beautiful rainbow over the ocean and 65 volunteers participated.
Read moreInspiring youth at Rockaway beach
Site Captains Wendolyn and Michael and Naturalist Nancy were joined by 40 fabulous volunteers who got hard to work on cleaning the beach.
Read moreVolunteers from all around the Bay joined us!
It was a smaller team at Rockaway Beach this month, about 40 Volunteers on a very cold and windy day. We are starting to get quite a few regular high school students who travel from East and South Bay, and bring their own supplies! In total this group collected 48lbs of trash and approximately 1215 cigarette butts! Amazing work team. A news camera […]
Read moreAmazing turnout at Rockaway beach cleanup
Saturday, February 5th, our Rockaway beach cleanup had 120 volunteers and collected a total 145 pounds of trash! When we saw how many volunteers had registered, a few Junior Site Captains from other beaches thankfully stepped up to help out. A new member of the newly renamed Mission Blue Crew, formerly the Junior Albatross Team, was there to learn about […]
Read moreWow! 92 Volunteers & 1821 Cigarette Butts at Rockaway
We had 92 volunteers, with the various fireworks booths and the regular cleanup. We picked up 45 lbs of trash and 10 lbs of recycle and a whopping 1821 cigarette butts. The naturalist Marie, joined us today and it was really informative. There were quite a few people going over to the table to talk about kelp and the different […]
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