Three of Puerto Vallarta’s most well-known companies; Botanical Gardens of Puerto Vallarta, Canopy Las Juntas y Los Veranos and Vallarta Adventures, are teaming to remove garbage from a well-traveled highway to beautify the area, improve environmental conditions and boost tourism in a one-day volunteer driven event.
The companies contacted PEACE, a local non-profit, to facilitate the project. Community Pride, one of four main programs at PEACE, demonstrates the importance of protecting the environment through recycling, composting, organic farming and green business projects and also conducts community beautification events such as recycled parks and river cleanups.
“The garbage on the highway is ruining what should be a trip to a tropical paradise,” says Robert Price, Founder and Curator of the Botanical Gardens. Price initiated the highway clean-up project and intends to create a long-term plan in order to keep the south-bound highway clean and welcoming.
Volunteers will be picking up trash on Carretera del Sur from Boca de Tomatlan to Las Juntas y Los Veranos on Saturday July 31st. They will meet at 10 A.M. at the entrance to Boca de Tomatlan, next to the bus stop.
“I’m hoping to get fifty volunteers from different organizations in order to clean as much as we can,” said Nicole Majewski, Volunteer and Event Coordinator at PEACE. “We can’t have enough hands!”
Other cleanups scheduled throughout the Bay:
• Saturday July 17 - River Clean-up in the Rio Cuale
• Saturday July 17 - Bucerias Playa (to the north) – 10am – Plaza de Bucerias
• Saturday July 24 - River Clean-up in the Rio Cuale – 9am - Oscars Restaurant
• Saturday July 24 - Bucerias Playa (to the south) – 10am – Plaza de Bucerias
• Wednesday July 28 - Playa de Punta de Mita – 10am – Casa Campesina
• Saturday 31 – Carretera del Sur (Boca de Tomatlan to Las Juntas y Veranos) – 10am – Pickups in Boca and PV
• Sunday August 1 - River Clean-up in the Rio Cuale – 9am - Oscars Restaurant
• Wednesday August 4 - Punta de Mita, Corral del Risco – 10am – Casa Campesina
• Saturday August 7 - River Clean-up in the Rio Cuale – 9am - Oscars Restaurant
La Cruz Playa – 10 am – Marina La Cruz
• Wednesday August 11 - Punta de Mita, Emiliano Zapata – 10am – Casa Campesina
• Saturday 14 – Arroyo de Bucerias – 10am – Plaza de Bucerias
• Monday August 16 - River Clean-up in the Rio Cuale– 9am - Oscars Restaurant
• Saturday August 21 - River Clean-up in the Rio Cuale – 9am - Oscars Restaurant
• Saturday August 28 - Playa Punta de Mita – 10am – Tienda PEACE Anclote
• Sunday August 29 - River Clean-up in the Rio Cuale – 9am - Oscars Restaurant
Please contact Nicole Majewski (nicole@peacemexico.org) if you are interested in volunteering.
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PEACE: Protection, Education, Animals, Culture and Environment, is a nonprofit organization established in 2005, made of four main programs which focus on education, entrepreneurship, animal well-being, and community engagement in the coastal regions of Nayarit, Jalisco and Quintana Roo, Mexico. Through innovative and community based programs, PEACE is working to improve the quality of life in local communities throughout the Bahía de Banderas. For more information, please visit www.PeaceMexico.org.
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