Easy ways you can help preserve our planet [Video]

April 22 is Earth Day. Started in 1970, the day celebrates our home and promotes efforts aimed at protecting the environment.

Countless people are working every day to preserve our planet.

While most people enjoy spending time sunning on the beach, some volunteer to restore sand dunes by planting seagrass. The plants help secure sand along the coast and help protect the delicate environment from hurricanes.

REBUILDING SAND DUNES FOR EARTH DAY

Volunteers are also helping remove hundreds of thousands of pounds of trash from the water, including a non-profit group in Hawaii. The group uses two missions a year to troll for trash floating in the Pacific Ocean.

On the mainland, scuba divers plunged into the iconic blue waters of Lake Tahoe to remove underwater trash by hand. In all, more than 25,000 pounds of junk was removed from the lake. Among the garbage that was found was a Walkman, a bathtub and lamp posts.

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