Local organizations and businesses celebrate Earth Day

 AUGUSTA, Ga. (WFXG) – Friday is the 52 annual Earth Day. It was began to lift consciousness about our impacts on the earth. 

Amazon’s new facility in Appling marked the day by planting a tree and doing a number of clean-up initiatives throughout our space. One thing normal supervisor Neil Gwynne says they need to make a convention. 

“The Earth Day dedication from Amazon, and even from my workforce, is a big dedication for us. Persons are very that we’re doing one thing for the atmosphere,” he says. 

The work from Amazon wasn’t simply on Friday. Gwynne says they began with a mission in downtown Augusta on Wednesday. 

“We went all the way down to the Riverwalk. Had been in a position to clear up down there, decide up trash, we additionally shoveled up the filth that had sadly washed up from the river,” he says. 

Workers at Amazon additionally spent Friday working to choose up trash from a surrounding roadway. They weren’t the one group paying tribute to Earth Day. The Phinizy Swamp Nature Middle together with Augusta College, Preserve Augusta Stunning and the town of Augusta are internet hosting a day-long occasion on Saturday. 

Kimberly Dillard is the occasions and volunteer supervisor on the Phinizy Middle. 

“We’ve finished this since 2013. All of us had been doing separate earth day celebrations. We stated why don’t we simply workforce up collectively, put our efforts collectively and throw this huge celebration,” Dillard says. 

This 12 months she says they’ve additionally added some new issues to the celebrations. 

“It’s from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. we have now volunteers throughout. We now have as much as 10 areas you’ll be able to volunteer to assist decide up trash and litter. Then we are going to feed them over right here on the celebration on the park,” she says. 

Additionally they have some enjoyable occasions deliberate all through the day. 

“We’ll have golf cart excursions, bike excursions, we’ll even have courses,” she says. 

Click on right here to seek out out particulars about Saturday’s occasions. 

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