Two organizations, phade and Keep Pinellas Beautiful, along with local businesses and residents teamed up Saturday to clean the Gandy Beach shores of trash. In an effort to combat plastic waste, phade hosted a public beach clean up to conserve the environment, restore nature’s beauty and mitigate plastic pollution.
Hans Gresseau with his daughter, Onika, 6, volunteer at the Gandy Beach clean up. [ CHLOE TROFATTER | Times ]
Zulay Balog, co-owner of Elevated Cheer & Tumble, at the Gandy Beach clean up. Balog brought the team to teach the importance of giving back to community. [ CHLOE TROFATTER | Times ]
Volunteer Josh Greener (left) and Keep Pinellas Beautiful operations manager Paul Mitchell (center) load trash picked up by other volunteers like Migdalia Saunders Cruz (right) at the Gandy Beach clean up. [ CHLOE TROFATTER | Times ]
Friends volunteer at the Gandy Beach clean up. [ CHLOE TROFATTER | Times ]
Shavazz Robinson volunteers at the Gandy Beach clean up. [ CHLOE TROFATTER | Times ]
Volunteer Josh Greener (left) loads trash picked up by other volunteers at the Gandy Beach clean up. [ CHLOE TROFATTER | Times ]
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