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International Coastal Clean Up Day - September 19
September 22 , 2020
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- International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day takes place on the third Saturday in September every year.
- It is one of the largest one-day volunteer event in the world.
- It started in 1986 when Linda Maraniss met Kathy O’Hara while working for Ocean Conservancy.
- O’Hara had just completed a report called Plastics in the Ocean: More Than a Litter Problem.
- The two of them reached out to other ocean-lovers and organized a Cleanup for Ocean Conservancy.
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