{"id":357597,"date":"2026-07-30T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357597\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:17:39","slug":"volunteer-with-keep-martin-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357597\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer with Keep Martin Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-44886 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Volunteers-participate-in-the-2025-International-Coastal-Cleanup-at-Stuart-Beach-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers pick up litter on Stuart Beach at the 2025 International Coastal Cleanup. Photo courtesy of Keep Martin Beautiful\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\"  \/>Volunteers pick up litter on Stuart Beach at the 2025 International Coastal Cleanup. Photo courtesy of Keep Martin Beautiful<\/p>\n<p>Keep Martin Beautiful will welcome the community for the 2026 International Coastal Cleanup, removing litter from our area\u2019s beaches, shorelines, and waterways on September 19.<\/p>\n<p>For more than three decades, Keep Martin Beautiful has served as Martin County\u2019s local coordinator of this worldwide initiative, bringing together residents of all ages to care for the coast.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, more than 1,000 volunteers remove litter from our shorelines, collecting bottles and food packaging, as well as thousands of cigarette butts, plastic foam fragments, discarded fishing line, and microplastics. These pollutants travel through storm drains and waterways, threatening marine life and damaging fragile coastal habitats.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers are encouraged to register on the Keep Martin Beautiful website and download the free CleanSwell app before the event. The app enables volunteers to record the litter they collect, providing valuable data to Keep Martin Beautiful and the Ocean Conservancy. The data helps scientists identify pollution trends, guide conservation efforts, and develop solutions to reduce marine debris around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers of all ages are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers pick up litter on Stuart Beach at the 2025 International Coastal Cleanup. Photo courtesy of Keep Martin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-357597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357597","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=357597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}