Beach Clean Up Page
Bayonne Nature Club
Appreciating, protecting and Improving urban nature sites.
In the article "Message in a Bottle" by David Ferris (May-June 2009) Sierra - the magazine of the Sierra Club, we learned that the small pieces of plastic are as dangerous as the larger bottles. These small plastics are eaten by birds and fish that then die of starvation for lack of space for food in their stomachs. Small plastics are often not recyclable and must be burned. In our everyday lives we need to dump small plastics into the garbage for incineration. Make sure you don't drop small plastic items in the street where they will wash into the river, bay and ocean.
Can you identify the items below?
Have you thrown any of these into the water?
We do shoreline clean-ups to make our parks look better and be safer for people and wildlife. Our shoreline clean-ups also prevent plastic from going into the bay and ocean where it destroys sealife such as turtles and whales.
Click on the CleanUps Links above to see an archive of our many shoreline clean-ups held in the parks of Bayonne, NJ.
Clean-up Event:
Join the Bayonne Nature Club
for a shoreline clean-up.
Become an Environmental Hero!
Saturday, April 5
from 9:00 am to 11:00 am
Rutkowski Park, Bayonne NJ
Meet at the gate down 48th Street from Kennedy Blvd. near the restroom in S. Gregg Hudson County Park.
Rain cancels this event.
Please dress for dirty work. Protect your feet by wearing boots.
Note: Some dangerous objects are found during the cleanup such as rusty nails, broken glass, bottles of unknown chemicals, knives, guns, condoms, and hypodermic needles.
Parents must accompany children.
Bayonne Nature Club's cleanups are sponsored by the
City of Bayonne NJ.
