{"id":407458,"date":"2026-09-22T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407458\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:00:09","slug":"martin-county-participates-in-international-beach-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407458\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin County participates in International Beach Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin County participates in International Beach Cleanup<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 volunteers help at 28 locations in the county.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790103609_800_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Allen Cone\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">More than 1,000 volunteers participated in a beach cleanup throughout Martin County on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Keep Martin Beautiful is the local coordinator of the International Coastal Cleanup. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;We are also able to help protect birds and marine life by reducing the likelihood that these innocent creatures will become injured or entangled in plastics or ingest deadly debris,&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">the nonprofit, volunteer-based community action organization said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">It was founded in 1994 as an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">County volunteers participated at 28 locations, including Stuart Beach, Hobe Sound Beach,  Jensen Beach,  Jensen Causeway, Bob Graham Beach, Sandsprit Park,  Indian Riverside Park.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">&#8220;By picking up these pieces of plastic, we can realize how much we are using in our own lives and choose to make a difference,&#8221; Linda Emerson said at Blowing Rocks Preserve on Jupiter Island.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">Stay up-to-date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin County participates in International Beach Cleanup More than 1,000 volunteers help at 28 locations in the county.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[161814,161813,161812,159912,16887,161815,6686,1160,38782,171,173,172,154269,42141,26002,7194,221,189],"class_list":["post-407458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-bob-graham-beach","tag-hobe-sound-beach","tag-international-beach-cleanup","tag-international-coastal-cleanup","tag-jensen-beach","tag-jensen-causeway","tag-late-headline","tag-martin-county","tag-plastic","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sandsprit-park","tag-stuart-beach","tag-up-to-date","tag-volunteer","tag-weather","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407458","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=407458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}