Some of the most beautiful beaches in the world are located along Alabama’s Gulf Coast and it has been the mission of Baldwin County’s Clean Coast Partnership to make sure things stay that way.

From the encouraging the use of eco-friendly products, to offering eco tours and recycling, those associated with the Clean Coast Partnership continue to do what they can to make sure that the cities of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach remain bright and beautiful.

Once again, the organization is gearing up for a Coastal Clean Up recycling day in September and also hopes to host another electronics recycling event according, to Gulf Shores councilman Steve Jones.

In January, the group hosted an electronic recycling day at the Gulf State Park pavilion, giving citizens an opportunity to discard old fax machines, printer cartridges, cell phones and computer parts.

Working with a group called Technical Knock Out, the items collected were hauled back to Birmingham where they were broken down and recycled.

Jones, speaking at a recent Gulf Shores council meeting, said that the program was very successful and that another similar event is being considered.

“We hope to do another event before the years end, maybe sometime in September before it gets cold,” Jones said. “It was about 2 degrees last year on the day we hosted the event.”

Jones said that this time the group would like to bring in a company that can collect a wider array of items. During the original event, everything from batteries to computer cables were accepted without charge, but there was a small charge for accepting computer monitors and items such as old televisions were not accepted.

“We are not sure where we will hold the event. We might do it at the Gulf State Park again, perhaps lake Shelby, we aren’t certain, but plans are to hopefully do it again during the month of September.”

Jones said he encourages anyone who knows of a company who might be interested in participating to let the Clean Coast Partnership know so that they can be contacted.

“We want the event to be successful like the last time, but on a wider scale.”

Clean Coast Partnership is a collaborative effort to coordinate city, state, business and individual efforts and resources for recycling and other environmentally friendly practices island-wide.