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It's a wrap! Volunteer workdays take a summer vacation

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Our "Give A Day For The Bay" workday season concluded in May with a trash bash along the shoreline near the Blackthorn Memorial on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge approach. More than 70 volunteers removed 1,400 pounds of trash and debris.

Here is the Tampa Bay Estuary Program's Give A Day For The Bay 2016-2017 "season of sweat," by the numbers:

  • 504 volunteers participated in six workdays
  • They donated 2,016 hours of their time
  • They removed 8 tons of invasive plants, trash and debris
  • They installed 20,000 native plants!
View photos from their volunteer workdays on their Flicker photostream.

TBEP workdays will resume in September. Join their volunteer team by signing up here.