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Article From The Now Newspaper By TOM ZILLICH February 2, 2017 · 10:45 AM Newton’s Chloé Dubois and James Middleton are founders of the Ocean Legacy Foundation. / TOM ZILLICH SURREY — Chloé Dubois has seen her share of plastic drink containers floating in the ocean off Vancouver Island, but it was the number of…
Clearing tonnes of plastic debris off beaches is only the first step—then comes the conundrum of what to do with it all. by Laura Trethewey READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT HAIKAI MAGAZINE Published December 19, 2016 On a sunny afternoon in September, a barge roughly the size of a dump truck pulls into Delta, British…
Field-tripping children and volunteers race to clear a warehouse of recyclables By Rafferty Baker, CBC News Posted: Oct 14, 2016 11:09 AM PTLast Updated: Oct 14, 2016 11:09 AM PT Chloe Dubois with Ocean Legacy Foundation stands in front of a pile of Styrofoam sorted by groups of children, (Krista Tulloch) Groups of school children have…
A barge loaded with 40 tonnes of marine garbage collected by volunteers arrived in Richmond Tuesday…
Ucluelet joined Alaska in a major shoreline clearing event last year involving a roughly 100-metre barge. The district is set to participate in a similar effort this month. by Andrew Bailey – Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News posted Aug 11, 2016 at 9:00 AM— updated Aug 12, 2016 at 9:30 AM Local volunteers will take part…
CTV Vancouver Published Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:15PM PDT A barge loaded with 40 tonnes of garbage and marine debris from the west coast of Vancouver Island delivered its payload to the mainland Tuesday. The trash was collected from remote beaches by hundreds of volunteers over the past seven months, an operation organizers at Living…
