CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, US, January 16, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ -- On January 12, 2019, over one dozen volunteers from The Way to Happiness (TWTH) Association of Tampa Bay, headquartered in downtown Clearwater, removed 60lbs of trash from their adopted-mile of the Pinellas Trail as part of their campaign to “Safeguard and Improve the Environment”. The volunteers were assisted by Keep Pinellas Beautiful which provided equipment to clean undergrowth, ditches and grass land running along the trail thus removing harmful litter and toxic trash.



According to TWTH Association, the biggest source of litter in America is cigarette butts, listed as number one of America’s 10 Most Littered Items followed by Food Wrappers, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Bottle Caps and Plastic Grocery Bags. Cigarette butts take at least nine months to decompose, leaching toxic chemicals such as arsenic (used to kill rats) and lead into the environment, leading to land, water and air pollution.



“It is especially important to keep our communities clear of litter, as Pinellas County is surrounded by bodies of water into which toxins from litter leach creating deadly effects on all living organisms”, said Ms. Tanja Cranton Executive Director of The Way to Happiness Association Tampa Bay. “A community that allows littering is promoting a message that residents do not care about their environment. But a community that discourages littering, improves community appearance and its residents’ quality of life.”



In 1980, long before “global warming” was a household phrase, Mr. Hubbard wrote in The Way to Happiness, the booklet on which TWTH Association was founded: “Recent discoveries by space probes to Venus have shown that our own world could be deteriorated to a point where it would no longer support life. And it possibly could happen in one’s own lifetime. Cut down too many forests, foul too many rivers and seas, mess up the atmosphere and we have had it. The surface temperature can go roasting hot, the rain can turn to sulfuric acid. All living things could die…Man has reached the potential capacity to destroy the planet. He must be pushed on up to the capability and actions of saving it. It is, after all, what we’re standing on.”



The next cleanup of TWTH Association of Tampa Bay’s adopted mile of Pinellas Trail will be held on Saturday, March 30th. Volunteers will meet at 10:30am at The Way to Happiness Center at 33 N. Fort Harrison Ave, Clearwater FL 33755. Community members are invited to join in, please call: (727) 467 6961.

Thanks to the support of the Church of Scientology, TWTH Association opened up its Community center and office on July 11, 2015. The center is open to the public daily from 10am – 10pm and offers free tours, workshops, seminars and educational materials to the community.


About The Way to Happiness:

The Way to Happiness book was written and published by L. Ron Hubbard in 1981 as a nonreligious, common-sense guide to better living. Its purpose is to help arrest the current moral decline in society and restore integrity and trust to humankind. It is available in 112 languages, with some 115 million copies distributed in 186 nations. The campaign to distribute the book has been embraced by more than 257,000 groups and individuals and millions around the world have received the materials free of charge thanks to the continued sponsorship of the Church of Scientology. The Way to Happiness holds the Guinness World Record as the single most-translated nonreligious book and fills the moral vacuum in an increasingly materialistic society.

Pat Harney
Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization
727-467-6860
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