By 10 a.m. on Memorial Day, Willis Island at the mouth of the Miami Marine Stadium basin is already trashed. Trash cans are overflowing and forming piles of garbage destined to wind up in the bay.
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‘We have to do better’: Litter is killing beloved Biscayne Bay
‘Don’t Trash Our Treasure’ initiative: Part 1
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MIAMI – It’s a beautiful Saturday spring morning, and the Miami Marine Stadium basin in Biscayne Bay is starting to fill up fast.
Boats and watercraft of all shapes and sizes are out, and many of the people on them are oblivious to the environmental footprint they leave behind.
“By the end of the day, the trash starts to accumulate,” Paolo Ameglio says. “Everybody finishes up, they pack up they go home. But the trash stays.”
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