Our Corporate Days Of Service (And Successes) Featured On Local 10 Newsâ
Our Corporate Days Of Service (And Successes) Featured On Local 10 Newsâ Our good friend, Emmy award-winning journalist – Louis Aguirre – from Local 10 News did a great segment on our Corporate Days of Service and the resulting impact. I noted some of my favorite comments below the video. Here are some of my […]
The power of customer feedback
A small win is actually a big win. For years, a popular chain drug store in Miami Beach had a dumpster in their parking lot for their boxes and waste. They must have spent thousands of dollars for this roll-away, and it was such as shame to see all that cardboard entering the landfill (they […]
How we eliminated 2.5 MILLION Single-Use Plastic Bottles
100% Plastic Free Soda and Water Contract for the City of Miami Beach We single-handedly tanked a 10-year renewal of an exclusive beverage contract between Coca-Cola and the City of Miami Beach that would have put an additional 25 million single-use plastic bottles (400,000 pounds) onto our beaches while leaving taxpayers to fund the cleanup […]
Ultra Music Festival sets the bar in Festival Greening
Ultra Music Festival (EEG) partnered with VolunteerCleanup.Org, Debris Free Oceans, and Surfrider Foundation Miami Chapter to reduce their impact at their new home at Historic Virginia Key Key Beach and Miami Marine Stadium. Overall, we felt that EEG did an excellent job in reducing their landfill waste, increasing the capture of recyclable materials, engaging the […]
Our Recent Wins in the Fight against Marine Debris and Single-Use Plastics
Miami Beach Single-use plastics ban! (thanks to our Activism) Looks like our August 2017 causeway cleanup with then-candidate, now Mayor Gelber made a big impact.  Miami Beach has JUST passed a ban on single-use plastic bags and plastic straws/stirrers on city property. Thank you to Mayor Dan Gelber for initiating this and to Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Gongora for co-sponsoring […]
Collecting Ocean Plastic for Method Soaps
Some companies are doing amazing things. Method Soaps is one of them. VolunteerCleanup.Org, SurfRider, and CleanUp Miami Beach recently partnered with Method Soaps to collect 50 cubic feet of #2, #3, and #5Â plastics from the shorelines which will be turned into bottles. It took us 5 cleanups and about 2 months, but it was well […]