[ISL] "Boughton Island is cleaner after garbage collection"

[rfmcdonald]

At The Guardian of Charlottetown, Maureen Coulter reports on an effort to clean up one of the smaller islands off the coast of Prince Edward Island.

Boughton Island is a little cleaner after the P.E.I. Nature Conservancy of Canada, along with volunteers, spent a day collecting more than 1.6 tonnes of garbage along the six kilometres of shoreline.

The group kayaked to the deserted Island off Cardigan in Georgetown Harbour, where they found mostly buoys and marine debris.

Julie Vasseur, program director for the P.E.I. Nature Conservancy of Canada, said this year was the most garbage they have collected since this tradition began.

They started the “kayak and clean up” in 2010 and have cleaned the shores of Boughton Island, Governors Island, Conway Sandhills and Murray Harbour (some of them more than once).

“We’ve had a lot of fun with it and we usually have a lot of success with it,” said Vasseur. “Our volunteers always seem to be really happy at the end of the day and we usually achieve quite remarkable results.”