{"id":227665,"date":"2026-04-11T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227665\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:16:10","slug":"thousands-volunteer-for-44th-annual-biscayne-bay-cleanup-in-miami-dade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227665\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands volunteer for 44th annual Biscayne Bay cleanup in Miami-Dade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Volunteers fanned out across Miami-Dade County on Saturday for the 44th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidade.gov\/global\/service.page?Mduid_service=ser1516206542736138\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.miamidade.gov\/global\/service.page?Mduid_service=ser1516206542736138\">Baynanza Biscayne Bay Cleanup Day<\/a>, a countywide effort to remove trash from the bay and surrounding waterways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/11\/miles-se-ofrecen-como-voluntarios-en-la-limpieza-anual-numero-44-de-la-bahia-de-biscayne-en-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/11\/miles-se-ofrecen-como-voluntarios-en-la-limpieza-anual-numero-44-de-la-bahia-de-biscayne-en-miami-dade\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the Department of Environmental Resources Management said the event is expected to mobilize about 5,000 volunteers at 33 locations across all 13 County Commission districts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFrom Miami Gardens to Homestead, and from Miami Beach to Hialeah, we all depend on Biscayne Bay,\u201d DERM Director Loren Parra wrote in a news release. \u201cThis makes Baynanza the perfect opportunity to show our love for our Bay by protecting its beauty and helping restore it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">County officials said Baynanza is Miami-Dade\u2019s largest community cleanup and has grown into a monthslong series of more than 60 events aimed at restoring Biscayne Bay, which officials describe as central to the region\u2019s environment and economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last year, event organizers said volunteers collected 35,000 pounds of trash, and this year they expect to collect even more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIn Miami-Dade County, our environment is our economy, our well-being and our future,\u201d Levine Cava wrote. \u201cOur Bay is not only the Blue Heart of our community. It\u2019s also vital to our economy, generating $64 billion locally each year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cleanup day, which ran from 9 a.m. to noon, capped this year\u2019s Baynanza programming, which has been held annually for more than four decades. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Event organizers said participants received cleanup supplies, water and commemorative T-shirts, and students could earn community service hours. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Volunteers fanned out across Miami-Dade County on Saturday for the 44th annual Baynanza Biscayne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-227665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}