The Long Island Sound Study and its partners are encouraging the Long Island Sound community to #DontTrashLISound! Learn about how you can help prevent debris in the Sound and on its beaches on our Facebook and Instagram. Join us at the campaign’s kickoff event Aug. 17 at Hammonasset Beach in Madison, Connecticut, hosted by Connecticut Sea Grant.
The 2024 #DontTraskLISound campaign, run by the Connecticut and New York Sea Grant programs with support from the Long Island Sound Study, will run through International Coastal Cleanup Day on Sept. 21. It will consist of cleanup events in both states, social media posts and giveaways of “Protect Our Wildlife” stickers for reusable water bottles and travel mugs.
“Campaigns like this one help keep people aware of the larger marine debris problem affecting Long Island Sound,” said Nancy Balcom, associate director of Connecticut Sea Grant. “They also help people focus on doable actions that we can all undertake with as much or as little effort as we have time to commit.”
For more coastal cleanups happening in Connecticut, check out https://www.savethesound.org/what-we-do/healthy-waters/cleanups-and-marine-debris/.
For more coastal cleanup happening in New York, check out www.nysbeachcleanup.org or sign up for updates using this form.
For information on the #DontTrashLISound campaign, beach cleanups, and how to order “Protect Our Wildlife” stickers, contact CT Sea Grant LISS Outreach Coordinator Maggie Cozens at margaret.cozens@uconn.edu in CT, or NY Sea Grant LISS Outreach Coordinators Jimena Perez-Viscasillas at jbp255@cornell.edu and Lillit Genovesi at lg543@cornell.edu in NY.
In 2020, the campaign created color your own activity booklets.
Squid Activity Booklet
Want to Volunteer for a Beach Cleanup? Check out these websites.
Interested in trying do something about the Trash problem? These groups can help you get involved.
These links will help you learn more about the marine plastic problem:
The law that establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States. The Clean Water Act prohibits unpermitted discharges of any pollutant from a point source into navigable waters and recognizes the critical problems posed by nonpoint source pollution. Section 320 of the Clean Water Act directs EPA to develop plans for attaining or maintaining water quality in estuaries. This includes protection of public water supplies and the protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife, and allows recreational activities in and on the water.
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