Volunteers distribute food; clean, dry clothes; they've developed a community tea point for socializing; they provide safety and security and even a learning center in many of their camps; they clean up the shores of Greece where the refugees land and leave safety vests and other detritus.
Clean up, clean the bathrooms.
Clean it on the shore, and throw it hard against a flat rock 100 times.
Today the waterways are clean and navigable, and the shore is lined with bankside cafes and moorings for upscale urban houseboats.
Through a combination of aerial monitoring by the E.P.A., skimmer boats manned by the Army Corps of Engineers as well as containment booms at the mouth of the harbor, and several regional and local programs to keep the shore clean, thousands of tons of waste are captured each year before making their way to the ocean.
With your help, we will feed the displaced, clean up the wreckage, and restore the shore that I love and have always called home.
THE SCRIPT This spot, one of five produced since the spill and the one now in heaviest rotation, opens with clean ocean waves lapping at the shore, as a narrator asks: "Thinking about your Florida beach vacation, and what's happening in the gulf?
"It is likely Larry Bossidy is being brought in to clean up the company a bit, shore up morale and shine it up for sale.
The hulking modern building houses 38 cosy, curtained dorm beds, each with private TV, in scrupulously clean rooms, a short walk from the shore at Lamai.
None of the oil that did leak reached the shore; a successful clean-up has left less than half a barrel's worth of oil on the surface, far out to sea.
