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International Coastal Cleanup Day Is Sept. 18

The International Coastal Cleanup, which is being held this Saturday, Sept. 18th, "is the world's largest one-day volunteer effort on behalf of the marine environment. In 2003 more then 450,000 people from all 55 U.S. states and territories and over 90 countries around the world participated in the cleanup collecting over 7.55 million pounds of marine debris." - excerpt from the Ocean Conservancy web page at http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer?pagename=press_archive739c

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