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August 27, 2020
Trash picked up anywhere can help clean beaches everywhere
Trash picked up anywhere can help us have cleaner beaches and lakes everywhere. While the journey of a piece of trash can be as short as a few feet – […]
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June 18, 2020
Pop Quiz: Plastic in the Great Lakes
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May 28, 2020
New Adopt-a-Beach Website Is Live!
We’re excited to share our new Adopt-a-Beach website with you! Visit adopt.greatlakes.org to check it out. The new website will make hosting Adopt-a-Beach events much easier. It also makes it super […]
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May 26, 2020
H.O.M.E.School Week 8: Plastic Pollution
This week, students will learn how the Great Lakes and the land around them – called the Great Lakes watershed or basin – are connected. What we do on the […]
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April 22, 2020
How Plastic-Free Can You Be? Earth Week Challenge
Each year, 22 million pounds of plastic enter the Great Lakes, according to research by the Rochester Institute of Technology. Plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade, and even then […]
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March 18, 2020
Adopt-a-Beach Cleanups Suspended Until Early May
At the Alliance for the Great Lakes, our volunteers’ safety is our top priority. We have been monitoring developments with the COVID-19 virus and have made the decision to suspend […]
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February 25, 2020
Alliance Announces Exciting Updates to Adopt-a-Beach Website
While it’s been too cold for Adopt-a-Beach, we’ve been cooking up some big things here at the Alliance. We’re happy to share that this year, we are launching a new […]
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November 18, 2019
Adopt-a-Beach 2019
Our Adopt-a-Beach volunteers put in some serious work during the 2019 Adopt-a-Beach season. We had volunteers cleaning on all five Great Lakes in all eight Great Lakes states. And across […]
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September 23, 2019
Celebrating September Adopt-a-Beach
From Duluth, Minnesota to Rochester, New York—Parrotheads to university students—September Adopt-a-Beach brought together a large community of people who love the Great Lakes. September Adopt-a-Beach, part of the International Coastal […]
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July 8, 2019
Videos: Week without Single-Use Plastics
As an environmental nonprofit, we know a thing or two about plastic pollution. We wrote the Great Lakes plastic-free pledge, we developed a plastic-free toolkit for our advocates, we empower […]