2021 Keep Edisto Beautiful - Beach Sweep

Beach Sweep Crew at State Park for Cookout

The litterbugs that leave plastic bottle caps and cigarette butts in the sand are a constant factor each summer, and the Edisto Beach Sweep each Fall asks volunteers to clean it up. On Saturday, September 18 at 9 a.m. volunteers arrived at Beach Access Number One to receive supplies from the Keep Edisto Beautiful travel trailer. Armed with trash bags, trash grabbers, the volunteers are assigned areas of the Town Beach to travel to and clean up, before meeting back at the Edisto Beach State Park for a free T-shirt and hot dog lunch.

Crawford Moore picks up trash on
ground at a Beach Access 

The Edisto Beach Sweep falls under the larger umbrella of the Keep America Beautiful, and Palmetto Pride organizations. Kelley Moore is the Executive Director of the Keep Edisto Beautiful organization, and works for the Town of Edisto. “We are an affiliate of the Keep S.C. Beautiful group, and we get grant money from Palmetto Pride in order to provide trash bags and trash grabbers for volunteers to have,” said Moore. “We partner with The Friends of Edisto State Park (FRESPACE) who provides free access to Shelter One for a picnic lunch and volunteers swap stories about what people find on the beach.”

            

When a volunteer arrives at the sign-up table at 9 a.m. they are assigned a specific portion of the beach to clean up. For example, Edisto Mayor Pro Tem Crawford Moore was assigned everything from Beach Access 13 to Beach Access 15. “I picked up some beer cans, and some plastic food wrappers pretty consistently today,” said Moore. “Plastic bottle caps and smaller items tend to get blown by the wind up into the edge of the dunes and get hung up on the grass, so that is always a good place to check. But the actual parking lots at each access held the most litter, including plates left on the ground that appeared to be where pets were fed.” 

Volunteers Get Ready to Sweep The Beach

To read the entire feature article in the newspaper click on Press and Standard.

To view past blog entries from Edisto in 2021 click on Manatee Sightings - Edisto River Sweep - CCA Barge Sunk off Edisto - Belles Beach Walk - Vacasa Purchases Atwood-  Gullah Blessing for Hutchinson House - Town Budget - Town Turtle Patrol - Edisto Billfish Tourney 

To view past blog entries from Edisto in 2019 click on ACE Basin Appreciation - Dolphin Slam - Jim Bost Memorial - Sea Turtle Nesting

 To view past blog entries from 2018 at Edisto click on Thirsty Whale Tours - I Love Edisto Auction - Jim Bost Memorial - Dolphin Slam - Coastal Geology - Grits Cook Off

To view past blog entries from 2017 at Edisto click on Holiday Business After Hours - EIOLT Oyster Roast - Billfish Tourney - Bingo - Tomato Open- I Love Edisto Auction - Jim Bost Memorial - Shark Tourney

To view past blog entries from 2016 at Edisto click on Serpentarium - Jim Bost Memorial - Dolphin Slam - Cobia Tourney - Spring Shorebird Synergy - Bovine Bones on Beach - Edisto River book