Keep Bermuda Beautiful (KBB) registered Charity #26.
Our mission is to engage individuals to take greater responsibility in reducing waste and eliminating litter through action and education.
The Bermuda Roadside Litter Survey taken in 2009 revealed that cigarette butts are the biggest form of litter. If you include lighters, matches and cigarette packaging along with cigarette butts this accounts for 25% of Bermuda’s litter.
Choose your own location, gather your friends into a team and call KBB for bags & gloves, or ask KBB to assign a location. We will be joining the global effort. This is an International Coastal Clean Up Day to pick up litter and marine debris on the beaches, along the rocks or in the coastal waters. Calling all divers, swimmers, snorkelers, beach-combers, Eco Clubs, sports groups, community groups and families. Join the Island-wide effort to help keep Bermuda beautiful and environmentally healthy.
Clean Up Date: September 18, 2010
In the event of rain, and if it has been raining up until 8:00 am on the morning of a KBB cleanup, the bushes and terrain will be too wet and muddy for a successful cleanup. In this case, the cleanup will be postponed to the scheduled “rain date” which is usually the following Saturday.
On Saturday, July 17, KBB Volunteers had a party...a paintin' party. We had some fun painting over the graffiti on the building for the Playground bathrooms, then cleaned up all the litter and illegally dumped waste that was in the parking lots, in the marsh, and basically all over the place. It was great to leave the Playground in good shape for all the summercamp children who use the Playground every day.
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On Saturday, June 19, KBB Volunteers cleaned up a badly littered site in the woods near Barnes Corner. A vagrant had been living in this location some time ago and had created a riot of empty soda bottles, large rolls of plastic sheeting, discarded clothing, empty food containers, candy wrappers, a boom box, a radio and batteries by the dozens. The vagrant had moved on but left behind a real unsightly mess. There were two large areas where you couldn’t see the ground for all the litter. It took nine people three hours to restore the areas back to natural woodlands.
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On the weekend of May 15th & 16th, volunteers joined in to give Bermuda a Spring Clean! It was polka dots everywhere, as 434 volunteers cleaned up 43 locations across Bermuda and removed over 6 tons of debris from the land. The polka dots were from the Happy Trash bags donated by BGA. Blue recycling bags were donated by Butterfield & Vallis and bottled water was supplies by Barritts. Waste Collection trucks and teams were assisting with the clean up from Works & Engineering, the Corporation of Hamilton and Parks Department. It was truly a joint effort and KBB is so proud of all who participated!
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On Saturday April 24th, we cleaned up a large area including Canal Road, the Tennis Stadium and both parking lots, Bernard Park and Dutton Avenue. KBB volunteers were joined by Bermuda Youth Rugby players and coaches (Under 10s, 12s, 14s & 16s). There were approximately 65 volunteers in total. One team pulled 12 metal grocery carts from the canal along Dutton Avenue and a small mountain of bulky waste items. Another team scoured the bank leading up to Marsh Folly Road and found a discarded Blackwatch Pass road sign, a Do Not Enter sign, and the remains of a pedal bike. A team over on Canal Road cleaned the path to the BASA pool as well as along Canal Road past the horse stables. We did a very thorough clean up and made improvements to three areas used for sports: BASA pool, the Tennis Stadium and Bernard Park. Congratulations to all who took part!
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See our reports and pictures of previous cleanups and events.
See our list of upcoming cleanups and events.
