The City of Jacksonville’s Keep Jacksonville Beautiful invites residents to participate in the 2024 International Coastal Cleanup event. This event, which will provide volunteers with an opportunity to help beautify the city’s shorelines, is part of the Ocean Conservancy’s Annual International Coastal Cleanup (ICC).
DATE: Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024
WHAT: International Coastal Cleanup is a part of the annual ICC, the world's largest volunteer effort to help protect our ocean, lakes and rivers. Each year, hundreds of thousands of volunteers from around the world spend a few hours removing trash and debris from beaches, lakes, and rivers, keeping track of every piece of trash they find. Ocean Conservancy uses that information to produce an annual snapshot of the marine debris problem. Locally, in 2023, 7,000 pounds, or 3.5 tons, of debris was collected by 523 volunteers who donated 1,083 hours of their time. The value of that volunteer time amounted to $32,435.85, based on hourly volunteer estimates by Independent Sector.
WHERE: Various locations across the First Coast
Keep Jacksonville Beautiful will help Jacksonville volunteers clean and protect the environment by eliminating debris that injures wildlife, contaminates beaches, waterways, and threatens boater safety.
- Local volunteers are needed to join this effort and can be part of an international event.
- Advance registration is not required. Site captains will register volunteers and provide bags and gloves at the sites listed below.
- This event provides an opportunity for students to satisfy community service requirements. Service hour certificates will be available from site captains.
Site captains will register volunteers and provide bags and gloves at the cleanup locations. Pre-registration is not required.
Participants must be over 18 or accompanied by an adult. Service hour certificates will be provided for students.
This regional effort is part of the Annual International Coastal Cleanup coordinated by the Ocean Conservancy and supported locally by Keep Jacksonville Beautiful.
Site Locations
7 a.m. – 9 a.m.
Oceanfront locations:
- 16th Avenue South - At the Ocean
- Atlantic Boulevard - At the ocean
- Beach Boulevard - At the Ocean
- Seagate/20th Avenue - At the Ocean
9 a.m. – 11 a.m.
- Boone Park South - 3725 St. Johns Ave.
- Charles Reese Park - 1200 Ken Knight Dr.
- Fishweir Park - 3925 Valencia Rd.
- Five Points - 1028 Park St.
- Ft. Caroline National Memorial - 12713 Ft. Caroline Rd.
- Hogans Creek - 701 E. Beaver St.
- Hollybrook Park - 319 Cherokee St.
- Klutho Park - 204 W. 3rd St
- Leonard Abess Park - 12743 Leonard Abess Park
- McCue Park and Boat Ramp - 2510 Second Ave. North
- Mandarin Park - 14780 Mandarin Rd.
- Riverside Arts Market - 715 Park St.
- Riverside Park - 753 Park St.
- Tillie K. Fowler Regional Park - 7000 Roosevelt Blvd.
- Willow Branch Park - 2870 Sydney St.
Additional Times
- All Wet Sports/Beach Boulevard Boat Ramp (10 a.m. – 12 p.m.) - 8505 Beach Blvd.
- Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park (8 a.m. – 10 a.m.) - 500 Wonderwood Dr., Atlantic Beach
- Lonnie Wurn Boat Ramp (8 a.m. – 10 a.m.) - 4131 Ferber Rd.
- Reddie Point Preserve (8 a.m. – 10 a.m.) - 4499 Yachtsman Way
- Riverview Community Senior Center & Park (8 a.m. – 10 a.m.) - 9620 W. Water St.
(Note: Site locations and times subject to change)