OVER 3,700 pounds of trash was collected from the coastline of the Foreshore along the Audrey Jeffers Highway in Port of Spain on September 20 as part of the International Coastal Clean-up exercise.

The clean-up activity attrracted 234 volunteers comprising staff, diplomats and teams of organisations, led by the Ministry of Planning, Economic Affairs and Development through its Environmental Policy and Planning Division, partnering with the Environmental Management Authority and the Institute of Marine Affairs, and nationally co-ordinated by the Caribbean Network for Integrated Rural Development.

It was one of 30 sites – 29 on shore and one underwater – with clean-up operations.