Community Cleanup: Work of the Puget Soundkeepers Alliance
The work of the Puget Soundkeepers Alliance aims to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the waters of Puget Sound for a thriving and healthy ecosystem that supports all communities living and working around the greater Puget Sound area. This is accomplished through community partnerships, policy creation and enforcement, and working with the indigenous communities who have called Puget Sound home since time in memorium.
These photographs are from two events that took place over Earth Day weekend. The Duwamish Alive event brought together many nonprofit organizations who worked on various cleanups and restorations around həʔapus (ha-ah-poos) Village Park & Shoreline Habitat. PSA took to the waters and coastlines picking up trash and debris from scrap metal to discarded clothing items. Further north the same day was the PSA’s Magnuson beach cleanup. A mass of volunteers walking the trails and beach of the park with bags full of litter and garbage found stuck in the sand or obscured in bushes or just lying out in the open. Between the two events, in the span of 4 hours the PSA’s community cleanup projects removed 573 pounds of trash from the Puget sound and shores of Magnuson Beach.
