By Sylvia

The other opportunity we had to help people (and the environment) last weekend was helping with a beach cleanup in Sandy Bay. It was organized by BICA (Bay Island Conservation Association), a NGO where some of our students have been interning. I expected them to give us trash bags and gloves and tell us to pick up as much as we could. But, we were participating in a Brand Audit, where you record the brand, type of product, type of plastic and amount of each thing that you find. We ended up going out  with a trash bag, gloves, a clipboard and multiple pieces of paper to identify each thing. It was fun, but sometimes things were so faded that you couldn’t read anything on them and everything smelled really bad. However, it was really nice to know that we were helping to save the reef (and the world)!