Annual 'Friends of Great Salt Lake' cleanup event sees record turnout
SALT LAKE CITY — Utahns are working to solve the issue of pollution in the Great Salt Lake, hoping to help the wildlife that calls the area home."It was sad to see how much plastic there was, but I did feel like, in the moment when we were cleaning up all that plastic, it just felt like repair to the world that is already being damaged right now," she said.
With orange trash bags in hand, volunteers like Gaisford spent hours picking up trash that was polluting the increasingly dry lakebed and shoreline at the annual clean-up event. “The southern shores of the Great Salt Lake are critical habitats for many different species of migratory shore birds especially. They will rest, feed, nest on these mud flat wetland habitats,” explained Katie Newburn with Friends of Great Salt Lake. “So [we're] removing trash like plastic and other kinds of debris that might be harmful for them as they’re consuming their food or could potentially be harmful to the water quality in the area.
“I kind of did not expect something like this with the amount of people that came out,” said Abraham Vazquez, who is a sophomore at the University of Utah. “It was really nice to see a lot of people do care about their environment and really are pushing their own efforts to go out and do something about it, so that was really cool."
Volunteers collected tires, mattresses, plastic, rusted chains and pipes, pieces of a truck, and more. It was enough to fill a large dumpster and then some.“Imagine if everyone just did this every week — cleaned up trash for a couple hours. It would help so much,” said Gaisford.
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