09/27/2026
Yayyy Willow!
Please read about the impact YOU made this year by participating in Coastal Connections International Coastal Clean Up.
This just in from Coastal Connections, Inc.
“Congratulations again to our cleanup contest award winners: 🏆
The Willow School (Rachel Collier, Peter, Heather Brault, & Robert Weins) - Won Green Team Spirit with 80 individual team members from the school at Humiston Beach Park! 2nd year in a row! 💚”
“The impact data for ICC 2026 in IRC have been compiled, and the results are staggering! 🤩
Drumroll, please...🥁
Across the record-breaking 26 cleanup locations throughout Indian River County, a record-breaking 1,324 volunteers from this community came together to remove 4,863 lb of debris from our beaches, coastlines, and waterways! You guessed it, that weight is yet another record broken! 👏
Astonishingly, at least 41,502 individual pieces of trash were removed from the environment! 🤯 While it is eye-opening and heartbreaking to know that so much marine debris was present in the community prior to September 19th, it is a wonderful feeling to know that it is now removed thanks in part to all of you!”
Top Items:
9,172 Hard Plastic Pieces (5,850 of which were microplastics)
5,343 Pieces of Plastic Film
3,807 Cigarette Butts (over 1,000 more than ICC 2025)
2,524 Plastic Bottle Caps
2,187 Foam Pieces
And a special Thank You to Walking Tree Brewery 🍻🌳 for hosting all of our families and community in celebration of taking ACTION and making an IMPACT!