This month’s Positively JAX award goes to an organization making waves in both environmental protection and community education — just in time for Earth Day. Congratulations to Beaches Go Green, our April winner!

Beaches Go Green provides awareness and education around the waste that we produce and how it affects our planet – particularly single-use items and plastic pollution in our oceans.

Beaches Go Green is a hyper local environmental education nonprofit educating our community on plastic pollution in our environment and our health since 2018. Our school-based clubs, Reusable Bottles for Sports Program, eco-cinemas and BE THE CHANGE series talks all support environmental education and advocacy in our area. We are seeking community partners (businesses, schools and like-minded organizations to help us spread environmental education and awareness in Jacksonville. The Beaches Go Green & Women’s Wellness Fest Sat. 10am - 3:30pm Seawalk Pavillion www.beachesgogreen.org

It’s EARTH DAY! Earth Day is a great time to celebrate and appreciate the beauty and fragility of our amazing planet. In our community, this could mean taking hike on a local trail, going for a swim at the beach or picking up trash in a local park. For Beaches Go Green volunteers it’s all about EDUCATION!

Beaches Go Green is a volunteer based organization looking to make the Earth more sustainable.  Students from all over Jacksonville volunteer their time for various cleanup activities.

The Beaches Oktoberfest is also hosting a beach clean-up on Oct. 9 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The clean-up from Hurricane Ian continues with a chance to improve Jacksonville Beach.

The clean-up from Hurricane Ian continues with a chance to improve Jacksonville Beach.

Beaches Go Green joined the show today to talk about how to pack an eco-friendly beach bag and why it is so important to protect our beaches. Here are some tips and tricks to know before your next beach trip:

While we set aside one day a year to celebrate Earth Day and focus on ways each of us can protect our planet, there are things we can do every day that are simple and meaningful.

While we set aside one day a year to celebrate Earth Day and focus on ways each of us can protect our planet, there are things we can do every day that are simple and meaningful.

More than 450 volunteers took part in the Beaches Go Green event in Jacksonville Beach on Saturday morning.

Help clean up Jacksonville Beach and make our communities a better place to live.

Organizers are building a new waste sculpture for the event to raise awareness about the impact of single-use plastic on the environment.

News4Jax partnered with Beaches Go Green for a Jax Community Clean-up.

To celebrate the upcoming Beaches Go Green - Positively Jax Community Clean-Up, Eden Kendall visited with the Nease High School Beaches Go Green Club. The officers of the club were very excited because they were about to receive hundreds of water bottles that the club had sponsored to be included as part of the school sports teams’ uniforms.

Partnership aims to help keep Brooklyn and Riverside neighborhoods looking beautiful.

Beaches Go Green provides awareness and education around the waste that we produce and how it affects our planet – particularly single-use items and plastic pollution in our oceans. We aim to simplify complex environmental issues so that everyone can make sense of them and make changes in their own lives for the better of the planet.

Beaches Go Green provides awareness and education around the waste that we produce and how it affects our planet – particularly single-use items and plastic pollution in our oceans. We aim to simplify complex environmental issues so that everyone can make sense of them and make changes in their own lives for the better of the planet.

The bins are equipped with technology to alert employees when they are almost full.

In St. Johns County, there were 300 volunteers, and 1,350 cigarette butts and 25 bags of trash were collected. And another interesting find among the hundreds of pounds of litter, plastic and cigarette butts.... a set of false teeth! Positively Jax movementLike last month’s food drive, this cleanup is part of our Positively Jax campaign, an ongoing effort to make Jacksonville a better place to live through random acts of kindness and other good deeds. SIGN UP: Join the Positively Jax movement | SHARE: Upload your Positively Jax photosChances are you already know that Positively Jax highlights inspiring stories we love to bring you each month about the people who go the extra mile to help others in need. Sign up and join the Positively Jax movement on PositivelyJax.com.

Then join us on Saturday for our Positively Jax Community Cleanup with Beaches Go Green. Join the MovementAlright, back to Positively Jax. Our goal is to perform and share 1,000 good deeds (or Random Jax of Kindness, as we’re fond of calling them) in 2021. But it’s not something we can do by ourselves — we need your help to make it happen. Sign up and join the Positively Jax movement on PositivelyJax.com.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Want to get outside for a change and do your part to make a difference in our community? Then join us this weekend for our Positively Jax Community Cleanup with Beaches Go Green. We’re going to spend Saturday, Feb. 20, picking up litter at three locations throughout the area. Here’s what you need to know:Who: Us (News4Jax), Us (News4Jax), Beaches Go Green , you (hopefully! Insiders who find me (Eden) at the Jacksonville Beach location will receive a complimentary reusable River City Live shopping bag (while supplies last).

We’re looking forward to having Beaches Go Green join us today to talk about this awesome event! There will be three locations for the upcoming clean-up on Saturday, February 20th: Atlantic Blvd Beach Access, Ocean Front Park, and Mickler Beach Access. Please wear masks and socially distance when possible. You can learn more about the event and about helping the environment by visiting the Beaches Go Green Facebook page or by going to beachesgogreen.org.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – If you missed out on our Positively Jax food drive but still want to make a difference, you’re in luck. Next month, you’re invited to join our Positively Jax Community Cleanup with Beaches Go Green. We’re welcoming volunteers to help us pick up trash and litter at three sites across the area. AdTo get involved or learn more about Beaches Go Green, visit the organization’s website. Sign up and take the pledge to join us on PositivelyJax.com.

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – It graced Jacksonville Beach’s Seawalk Pavilion since November, but now the famous octopus made of single-use plastic will be moving to its new home at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, where it’ll continue to spread awareness about the environment. Piece by piece and strand by strand, volunteers from Beaches Go Green broke down the area’s most visible artificial sea creature on Sunday. “But the breakdown and the setup are always a big undertaking.”The gigantic cephalopod is not only made up of tens of thousands of single-use plastic bottles, but it’s also responsible for more than 1,000 volunteer hours. Now, it’ll soon be on its way to the Jacksonville zoo. Once the octopus is taken to the Jacksonville zoo, it’ll be stored a period of time before a master plan on how it’ll be displayed is created.