Pinellas Marine Litter Patrol
A Pinellas County litter reduction program administered by
Keep Pinellas Beautiful, Inc.
What is the Pinellas Marine Litter Patrol?
It is a program to register volunteers with canoes, kayaks, and shallow bottom boats who express interest in helping to remove litter and marine debris from our bayous, coastal waterways, and spoil islands in Pinellas County.
How does it work?
Registered volunteers will be periodically notified of planned cleanups and locations needing volunteers.
Registered volunteers, after initial cleanup, will receive a Pinellas Marine Litter Patrol (PMLP) membership certificate and decal for their boat(s). PMLP members will then receive a special PMLP sticker for each cleanup thereafter. Their name will also be entered into a semi-annual drawing for each cleanup they participate in for numerous sponsor prizes.
Keep Pinellas Beautiful will provide all volunteers with pickers, containers, bags, gloves, insect spray, sunscreen, and chilled water.
What are the benefits?
All PMLP members will be listed on the Keep Pinellas Beautiful web site, www.keeppinellasbeautiful.org, plus receive other recognition.
Why this new program?
Most of our urban litter flows from our roadways into the storm drains during heavy rains. A percentage of Pinellas storm channels do not filter out this waste stream. Therefore it is only a matter time before this "trash" ends up, in many cases, on our beaches.
This trash then causes both an economical and environmental impact on our county.
Littered beaches and shorelines have a direct impact to our tourism industry.
The environmental impact is harder to see but it does severe damage to our natural environment, injuring or killing our marine and wild life, while polluting both land and water.
Keep Pinellas Beautiful, Inc.
- Click here to download the Pinellas Marine Litter Patrol Brochure
- Click here for our online Pinellas Marine Litter Patrol registration Form
- Our appreciation to our PMLP Members
What is the Pinellas Marine Litter Patrol?
It is a program to register volunteers with canoes, kayaks, and shallow bottom boats who express interest in helping to remove litter and marine debris from our bayous, coastal waterways, and spoil islands in Pinellas County.
How does it work?
Registered volunteers will be periodically notified of planned cleanups and locations needing volunteers.
Registered volunteers, after initial cleanup, will receive a Pinellas Marine Litter Patrol (PMLP) membership certificate and decal for their boat(s). PMLP members will then receive a special PMLP sticker for each cleanup thereafter. Their name will also be entered into a semi-annual drawing for each cleanup they participate in for numerous sponsor prizes.
Keep Pinellas Beautiful will provide all volunteers with pickers, containers, bags, gloves, insect spray, sunscreen, and chilled water.
What are the benefits?
All PMLP members will be listed on the Keep Pinellas Beautiful web site, www.keeppinellasbeautiful.org, plus receive other recognition.
Why this new program?
Most of our urban litter flows from our roadways into the storm drains during heavy rains. A percentage of Pinellas storm channels do not filter out this waste stream. Therefore it is only a matter time before this "trash" ends up, in many cases, on our beaches.
This trash then causes both an economical and environmental impact on our county.
Littered beaches and shorelines have a direct impact to our tourism industry.
The environmental impact is harder to see but it does severe damage to our natural environment, injuring or killing our marine and wild life, while polluting both land and water.
