Earth Day Adventures – Canal Clean Up

Over the next couple of days I will be posting all the earth day adventures The Sietch was a part of this year. First up canal clean up.

Canal clean up is an annual event that teams up community volunteers, Sietch Members and AmeriCorps Cape Cod. Here is the day recreated with pictures.

welcome to canal cleanup

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tiny worker

This little guy showed up early ready to pick up trash. The Cape Cod Canal is one of the most popular fishing spots on the cape, it is also home to a running/bike trail. Thousands of people use the area every week during the summer. It is also a major conduit for boats large and small. As such it gets pretty dirty.

boyscouts

Every year AmeriCorps Cape Cod has a big clean up event, for the last three years Sietch Members have been present. This year the boy-scouts showed up as well.

red cross giving out food

red cross worker

We were also lucky enough to have the red cross volunteers show up. They were there to give out food in order to get disaster practise in a controlled situation.

We are working for you

Everyone likes walking on a clean canal, but these guys like it best.

picking up trash on bikes

picking up trash

more picking up trash

teaming up to fight trash

got to get that deep in the cracks trash

We had A LOT! of hard workers out picking up A LOT! of trash.

before

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Before

after

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After

fishing line

We picked up over 7 POUNDS of fishing line. These are bags full of just fishing line.

In the end we picked up over 600 pounds of trash and had over 100 volunteers that showed up. A good time was had by all.