Each year in September, hundreds of thousands of volunteers comb lakes, rivers, and beaches around the world for litter. These volunteers are the driving force behind International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day. Last year, 504,583 volunteers removed 18 million pounds of trash from coastlines and waterways around the world. Over 9,000 of those volunteers were Jamaicans who picked up 109,434 pounds of trash from our beaches. The data recorded every year by these dedicated volunteers about the sources and types of trash harm-ing our ocean and waterways raises awareness, inspires recycling efforts, and shapes policy decisions from the local to international level.

As an ICC site coordinator, you will take a lead role on the front line of one of the world's most preventable problems. Together with the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) and the Ocean Conservancy, you will work to find suitable partners to help target appropriate sites for conducting cleanups. You are not alone in the job; you will recruit other like-minded volunteers to act as team leaders, who take responsibility at the cleanups. Your network of team leaders will help you coordinate and carry out cleanups and recruit local partners and volunteers.

NATIONAL COORDINATOR:

Jamaica Environment Trust (JET)

Organizes ICC at the national level. Supports local site coordinators and prepares the national report. JET’s national coordination of ICC is funded by the Tourism Enhancement Fund and several other corporate partners led by Yello Media Group in 2017.

OCEAN CONSERVANCY: Organizes/supports the national coordinators at the global level. Provides data cards and prepares the international report.

SITE COORDINATOR:

Oversees a cleanup at a single location/site.

TEAM LEADER:

Oversees groups of four to five volunteers at the cleanup site to collect trash and record data.

REGISTER YOUR

INTERNATIONAL COASTAL

CLEANUP DAY EVENT

It is important that you register your International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day event with the national coordinator, the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET). This will enable you to receive all the benefits of being a globally recognized ICC event, including: volunteer and coordinator data cards to record the amount of garbage you have cleaned up, promotion of your cleanup through JET, inclusion of your clean-up in the national report, and inclusion of your clean-up data in the global report. If you are a non-government or community based organization, or academic institution, registration also allows you to apply for a stipend to assist with the costs of hosting your cleanup. P

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BEFORE THE CLEANUP

The Site/Zone coordinator will undertake the following steps to

ensure that the cleanup event runs smoothly:

Identify a site or sites to host your

cleanup

This should be a beach or waterway that needs to be cleaned and is safe and accessible to volunteers. Ensure that you will have access to the site and that you have the necessary permission to be at the site.

Identify a site coordinator to manage

each site

If you choose multiple sites to cleanup on ICC day, you will need to identify a coordinator to manage activities at each. Site coordinators must also identify team leaders for each site, based on the number of volunteers expected. Register your cleanup with JET

Contact us at 960-3693 or beachcleanupjamaica@gmail.com

Visit your site before the cleanup

This should be done well in advance of the event date. Decide where you will set up the registration area, where the garbage drop-off points should be located, and where volunteers will be sent to clean.

Source supplies you will need for your

Cleanup

These should include: Work gloves for volunteers, preferably gardening gloves

(you can have volunteers bring a pair of gloves with them) Drinking water (and other food/refreshments, if you choose) Hand washing water Garbage Bags (two different colours if you will be

separating recyclables from other waste) Pencils ICC volunteer data cards (provided by Ocean

Conservancy through JET)

One (1) ICC coordinator card per site (provided by Ocean Conservancy through JET)

First aid and bathroom facilities for volunteers Secure the services of local garbage

collectors

It is important to determine who will take away the garbage you have collected at the end of the cleanup. If you plan to separate recyclable material you will also need to contact recyclers who will accept plastic and make appropriate arrangements. Attend a site coordinator training

session

JET stages two ICC site coordinator training sessions—one in Kingston (August 23) and the other in Montego Bay (August 25). At this meeting data cards and other materials provided by JET for your cleanup will be distributed to site coordinators. There will be a presentation on the roles and responsibilities of site coordinators, the importance of data collection, how to fill out data cards, the importance of keeping track of numbers of volunteers, trash collected, what to do in case of a health emergency, how to handle dead or entangled animals, and the benefits of working with the media.

Set up your registration station

Be prepared before your volunteers start arriving. Organize and set up check-in stations with all materials; be sure your pencils are already sharpened and registration sheets and data cards are ready for your volunteers. Post signs, to direct volunteers to parking areas, check-in stations, and cleanup areas. Your garbage and recycling drop-off points should be appropriately located and marked. Distribute materials and instruct the

volunteers

Zone and site coordinators should distribute materials and instruct the volunteers on the following points as they arrive at the registration point: Have all volunteers register so you will have an accurate

record of the number of participants. Emphasize the importance of data collection. To facilitate data collection and sorting of recyclable trash,

volunteers should work in teams of four or five, led by a team leader. Give each team several garbage bags. Have each team reserve bags for recyclables and another for other garbage. Team leaders are responsible for recording the items picked up by the other volunteers on the volun-teer data card (they can call out the items as they go).

Children should be instructed NOT TO TOUCH any medi-cal (syringes, etc.) and sewage (condoms and tampons) waste. Adults should be instructed to wear gloves at all times when handling such waste, and to place syringes in plastic containers with lids. But be sure to have volunteers record these debris items just like all the others.

Instruct the volunteers on what they are to do with the filled bags of garbage once they are finished cleaning up

Limit your waste!!!

Remember ICC day should result in everyone becoming more conscious of the waste we produce and where it goes. If you are serving refreshments, avoid food that has a lot of packaging, especially if the packaging is not biodegradable (e.g. plastic) or cannot be recycled (e.g. Styrofoam). Collect all completed volunteer data

cards

Ensure volunteers return data cards to the check-in station immediately after the cleanup. Place a clearly labeled box at the registration area where cards can be returned. Review returned cards to ensure they are properly filled out, particular-ly with number of items and bags collected, and the number of people in the cleanup group etc. Tip: You may want to fill out zone and site information on the data cards before the clean-up so the volunteers don’t accidentally misrepresent your zone and site locations.

Oversee the removal of the garbage

Make sure the garbage collector takes all the trash to a legal dumpsite, and that no waste is left behind.

DURING THE CLEANUP

Summarise the ICC volunteer data cards on

the Coordinators Card

Count the number and size of garbage bags collected and calculate the weight of the trash. There are several ways to calculate the weight of trash collected: Sometimes your garbage collector can give you the total

weight of what they hauled away (either actual weight or a good estimate).

Ocean Conservancy uses 15 pounds per bag as a stand-ard weight for conversions in the event that alternative weighing methods are not available.

Return all data cards to JET

Both coordinator cards and volunteer data cards should be returned to the Jamaica Environment Trust, 123 Constant Spring Road, Unit 5, Kingston 8 by TARA courier by the latest October 2, 2017 The cost of the courier service will be covered by the Jamaica Environment Trust. For those groups which have received ICC coordination stipends, submit copies of all receipts to JET by the latest Monday, October 2, 2017. These receipts can accompany your data cards by courier, or can be faxed to (926-0212), or emailed along with photos of your cleanup to beachcleanupjamaica@gmail.com. Survey your volunteer team post-event

Encourage everyone to share experiences, stories, and pictures about their ICC experience. This might bring others to future events—and now is the time to start planning for next year's event. Get volunteers on board while their enthusiasm is high! Collect lessons learned and best practices for future activities.

AFTER THE CLEANUP

JOIN THE MOVEMENT!

Log on to www.nuhduttyupjamaica.org

For more information on planning a beach cleanup for International Coastal Cleanup Day

in your community contact:

JAMAICA ENVIRONMENT TRUST

123 Constant Spring Road, Unit 5, Kingston 8 Telephone: 960-3693 Cell: 869-8313 Fax: 926-0212 Email: beachcleanupjamaica@gmail.com Website: www.jamentrust.org Opening Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00am– 4:30pm

International Coastal Cleanup Day 2017 activities in Jamaica are funded by