Four hundred volunteers clear Baybay Beach

The Republic's first coastal clean-up covered two kilometres of shoreline.

Academic Year 2023–2024

Volunteers collecting rubbish along a sandy shoreline

About four hundred students from all twelve Local Government Units joined the Republic's coastal clean-up at Baybay Beach, part of the international clean-up day.

Volunteers worked in teams of twenty under a marshal from their own unit, and cleared two kilometres of shoreline by noon.

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Most of what was collected was plastic.

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