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Volunteers planted over 50 trees to help replace cityâs canopy
Volunteers planted over 50 trees today By WECT Staff | January 30, 2021 at 12:07 AM EST - Updated January 30 at 12:07 AM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Just over 50 trees were planted by 40 volunteers from the Alliance for Cape Fear Trees Friday, January 29 as part of the Wilmington Tree Initiative to replace trees lost to hurricanes.
These trees, planted along Racine Drive, from Old Eastwood Road to Oriole Drive, were planted in partnership with Audi Cape Fear. For every car sold since November 2020, Audi pledged to plant a tree.
Many local groups are committed to re-growing Wilmingtonâs urban forest and the goal is to plant 1739 trees by fall 2021. So far, they have planted 1600.
The seabins in the Cape Fear River have cleaned a lot of trash and seagrass, the latter of which often has micro bits of plastic in it. (Port City Daily/Courtesy of Keep New Hanover Beautiful)
WILMINGTON In a little over a month, 132.3 pounds of trash and seagrass have been removed from the Cape Fear River. Local environmental organization Keep New Hanover Beautiful (KNHB) installed two seabins at the end of November at Port City Marina at Pier 33 in downtown Wilmington.
Essentially floating trash receptacles, the seabins created over the last three years by two water lovers in Australia were awarded by the nonprofit’s parent organization Keep America Beautiful. Three affiliates, including ones in Ohio and Tennessee, are among some of the first to try out the environmental technology that aims to rid oceans of plastics worldwide.