Earth Day is approaching and the Chamber of Commerce is gearing up for its 15^th annual Earth Day Roadside Clean-Up happening Saturday, April 14th from 7 am – 10 am along Cayman’s roadsides and beaches. Last year, this popular event had over 1500 participants sign-up and this year we hope to have even more! We are inviting anyone who would like to come out either as an individual or as a team to contact [email protected]  or call 949-8090 ext. 121. It is a great activity for children too – so why not bring them along!  Everybody’s welcome.

There is no charge to participate and the first 1000 people who sign-up receive a free event T-shirt, a water bottle, and a tote bag! All clean-up crews are also invited to a FREE brunch at 10 a.m. as a ‘thank you’ for all your hard work thanks to our Brunch Sponsor LIME.

T-shirts, waterbottles, totebags, garbage bags,  and latex gloves will be distributed to the clean-up crews the week of April 9th at the Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Centre in Governors Square. When you sign-up you can choose or be given a clean-up area for you as an individual or your team and this is where you will meet. The 7 a.m. –10 a.m. is just a guide as some people like to start earlier or a bit later. Drivers are asked to be extra vigilant on the day of the event as clean-up crews will be on the roads from as early as 6 a.m. The Department of Environmental Health has asked that ALL full bags are left on the side of a main road for collection (especially those collected from the beach).

The Chamber would like to acknowledge our T-shirt Sponsor for the event Deutsche Bank whose sponsorship allows for FREE event shirts to be given out to the first 1000 sign-ups. This year we are very pleased to say that we also have BritCay Insurance as our very first Water Bottle Sponsor and also Walkers, Island Heritage Insurance, and Royal Bank (Cayman) Ltd. as our very first tote bag sponsors! Featured on these items is specially designed event logo from the Department of Tourism.

Special thanks also to the Department of Environment Health for providing garbage bags and latex gloves and the Recreation, Parks, and Cemeteries Unit who with a team of 20 staff and 7 pickup trucks will collect all the trash bags on Monday April 16^th placed on the roadside between the hours of 5am to 1pm.

“The Earth Day Roadside Clean-Up has always been a successful event for the Chamber but this year we were pleased to see even more local businesses coming on board as sponsors of the event. This is a great outcome for our Islands and we just hope that our message of keeping Cayman clean and green is getting through to the community as a whole.  We are a tourism destination blessed with a unique natural beauty that we should both respect and cherish. Let’s not limit ourselves to the month of April for these types of activities, let us keep our environment at the forefront of our minds all year round,” Wil Pineau, CCE, Chamber of Commerce CEO.