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Diego Cancel

Sustainability and Resiliency Supervisor at the City of Coral Gables, Florida, and NC State alum featured on the Climate Correction Podcast.

Oct 1, 2026

33:01
What do you feel like the residents of Coral Gables, like what environmental issues are they most concerned about?
33:08
So I would say one of the biggest concerns in our community, given that we are called the City Beautiful, is litter and waste diversion.
33:17
So some of the things that the City of Coral Gables is doing to tackle that right now and in the last five years has been through our Keep Coral Gables Beautiful program.
33:27
So we're an affiliate of Keep Florida Beautiful.
33:29
In the five years, we have collected a million pounds of litter in the city.
33:34
We've done over 300 events and we've had over 30,000 volunteers.
33:38
So through that program, we have cigarette litter recycling, plastic bag recycling, battery recycling.
35:05
What about any kind of environmental issues that come from the natural environment? Like, I don't know, does Coral Gables have to deal with flooding or increased heat, hurricanes? Is it vulnerable more so than, I don't know, anywhere else in Miami-Dade County?

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