With beautiful beaches and extensive coastlines, Caribbean countries are particularly hard-hit by marine plastic pollution. Ahead of Call to Earth Day, some local groups decided to take action.
In the coastal town of Castries in St Lucia, volunteers from the Caribbean Youth Environment Network spent their Sunday afternoon pulling waste out of waterways and collecting trash from the shoreline, and in neighboring St Vincent and the Grenadines, its sister youth group collected 21 bags of trash from Colonarie Beach.
Meanwhile, in Belize, community trash-collecting and education initiative Mr Goby & Friends spent an hour picking up plastic cups, food wrappers and beer bottles, to make sure its local beach and ocean remains plastic-free.
source: cnn.com