Environment

Nice News -   Over the years, many things have stayed the same in Ocean City, Maryland. There’s still a boardwalk, a picturesque pier, and plenty of tourists. But other things have changed, particularly when it comes to the city’s cleanliness. Long the butt of jokes due to the surfeit of discarded food, cigarettes, and plastic waste in the sand, per Good Good Good, Ocean City has been undergoing a clean makeover with the help of local Josh Chamberlain, who took it upon himself to make a change. “We all live on the planet together and we should leave it better than we found it,” he shared with WMDT.
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So in 2018, Chamberlain founded the nonprofit Go Green OC, launching a citywide compost program that has since diverted over 680,000 pounds of food waste. And according to the website, this is just the beginning. The organization has big plans to turn Ocean City into the first zero-waste resort town in the country by introducing dual-stream recycling programs, hosting zero-waste events, and swapping plastics for compostable products.  ​“We’re becoming a voice in the zero-waste space,” Chamberlain told the Ocean City Today-Dispatch in March. “We are already becoming a model.”