The Daily Hour: Keeping Bermuda Beautiful in 2023
Articles, News | January 12, 2023
Watch KBB's monthly appearance on The Daily Hour podcast, January 12, 2023. Learn about KBB's 2022 year in review and what's in store for 2023. The monthly segment is generously sponsored by Wilmot's Trucking and starts at 36 minutes and 10 seconds into the broadcast. ... Read more
ZBM Report on KBB’s Education & Green Events Waste Management
Articles, News | January 11, 2023
Learn about KBB’s role in promoting green waste management for large events and our new schools-based curriculum for students of all ages. ... Read more
Ocean pollution crisis is ‘literally choking our local marine environments’ – KBB
Articles, News | January 9, 2023
Local littering is contributing to the ocean pollution crisis, which is “quite literally choking our local marine environments and poisoning the world's oceans”. That is the message from Traci Burgess, the executive director of the environment charity Keep Bermuda Be... Read more
Thank you, Bermuda
Articles, News | January 9, 2023
Keep Bermuda Beautiful is one of Bermuda’s oldest environmental charities, having first formed as a sub-committee of the Garden Club of Bermuda at about 1964. Charitable status was granted to KBB in 1966 and the rest, as they say, is history. KBB’s mission is to reduce wa... Read more
Christmas Day revellers leave Elbow Beach in good shape
Articles, News | January 3, 2023
Revellers have been praised for leaving Elbow Beach clean after the annual Christmas Day party. According to Traci Burgess, the executive director of Keep Bermuda Beautiful, which helps with waste management for the event, more than 1,300lb of trash was collected on the beac... Read more
Sixteen ways to reduce single-use plastics in your daily life
Articles, News | December 29, 2022
As every year passes, climate change and its consequences become increasingly evident. Unfortunately, as we watch huge plumes of toxic gases being pumped into the air and see vast garbage patches in the ocean, followed by pictures of dead sea creatures, droughts and flooding, ma... Read more
Please Keep Elbow Beach Clean On Christmas
Articles, News | December 22, 2022
“Everyone is encouraged to “act responsibly and remember to reduce, reuse and recycle to help minimise the amount of waste generated by this event” at the Christmas Day celebrations at Elbow Beach. A spokesperson said, “Christmas Day at Elbow Beach, which is orga... Read more
TV News: Abandoned Boat
Articles | November 21, 2022
ZBM TV News reports on the removal of an abandoned sailboat that washed ashore during Hurricane Fiona. Amy Shillingford, KBB's Project Lead for the Abandoned Boats Project, gives an update on the status of the project, number of boats removed to date, and next steps regarding... Read more
BUEI to host second Youth Climate Summit
Articles, News | September 14, 2022
Bermuda’s younger voices will continue the global dialogue on climate change with the island’s second Youth Climate Summit hosted by a leading ocean conservation group. Last year, the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute brought international youth speakers together w... Read more
Visiting Rotarians clean up as mangrove project takes root
Articles, News | September 12, 2022
A landmark project to save vital mangrove forests from further degeneration has moved a step closer after a botanist spearheading the plan visited the island. Christopher Puttock was part of a delegation of more than 200 members of Rotary groups from North America who visited... Read more