Every second Sunday in Tampa Bay, Pure Initiative, a Tampa Bay nonprofit, brings dozens of volunteers together to pick up trash along area beaches.

Sunday morning, over 200 pounds of trash were picked up along Picnic Island Beach.

"The whole mindset of, well, that's not my job. I don't do that. We want to get away from that, right? We want people to every day. If we all do our part, it becomes a pretty easy problem to solve," says RJ Vida, the founder of Pure Initiative.

Vida founded his nonprofit in 2020 and now organizes monthly beach cleanups. The organization is aiming to fill gaps left by other environmental groups that typically host annual events.

"There's some amazing organizations in Tampa that do cleanups on a yearly basis, but no one's really filling in the gaps. So, I figur

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