Overview

• More than 120 institutions joined synchronized mutirões across eight Baixada Santista cities under the lead of Instituto EcoFaxina.
• Across the state of Rio de Janeiro and the Região dos Lagos, projects such as Projeto Coral Vivo and Mar Sem Lixo coordinated public cleanups at beaches, lagoons and islands.
• At Praia do Flamengo, about 500 volunteers collected roughly 300 kilograms of trash, with Comlurb scheduled to remove and properly dispose of the material.
• Collected items will be classified to identify sources and feed scientific databases, reflecting research that 91% of debris on 306 Brazilian beaches is disposable plastic.
• Neighborhood drives in Botafogo and Leblon combined cleanup actions with education activities and introduced the Mar de ideias prize to encourage local solutions.