The Lake Huron Coastal Centre is looking for volunteers to join them in this year's Great Goderich Shoreline Clean Up.
Coastal Stewardship Technician, Alyssa Bourassa, says this is the first clean up since 2019 so they're hoping this year's will be as big as it was that year, when they collected over a thousand pounds of garbage. She says some of that was large items that wash up at the river, because they clean up the lower river as well as the beach. “What is just as important is the little stuff, the micro plastics. So we're going to be doing a deep clean of the beach, we're going to be looking in the sand, we're going to be finding all those tiny little plastic pieces that animals tend to pick up and eat.”
Bourassa says in the past, they've had as many as two hundred people come out, so they're hoping to reach those numbers again. She says it's a family-friendly event and people can pre-register online and then you just hit the Register Here button.
Bourassa adds, it would be very helpful if people did pre-register because Zehrs is hosting a BBQ, so it helps if they had an idea of how many people to expect. All of the money raised will go towards local conservation projects.
The Great Goderich Shoreline Clean Up will be on Saturday, September 24th from ten till one.
