E.P.I.C. | Plastic Pollution Emergency Response™
E.P.I.C. | Plastic Pollution Emergency Response™
Ocean plastic pollution is an epic problem—representing an epic opportunity for philanthropic impact.
Ocean Legacy lives through the people who work on the water, in processing facilities, and alongside communities dealing with plastic pollution every day. Through our EPIC Program—Education, Policy, Infrastructure, and Cleanup—we remove plastic from the environment, prevent it at the source, and build the infrastructure needed to keep it from coming back.
Leadership Giving provides the working capital behind this effort: paid crews, equipment, processing capacity, training, research, and the ability to act when conditions demand it.
As we look ahead to an epic year in 2026, we are excited to introduce donors to a new charitable giving opportunity: Ocean Legacy’s work can now be supported by donations to a dedicated Charitable Impact Foundation giving group, thanks to our program delivery partnership with the Canadian Urban Planning Foundation. This structure enables leadership supporters to engage with Ocean Legacy’s work in a personally philanthropic capacity, to fund our environmental restoration and circular economy education programs.
Leadership Giving is cumulative—every dollar counts to move the work forward.
On average, it costs approximately $4–$5 per pound for us to safely remove plastic pollution from the environment. This includes real-world expenses such as vessels, helicopters, safety gear, crews, and processing. This means:
Whether you take pride in your gift funding pounds removed, crews deployed, or infrastructure strengthened, each contribution supports the EPIC system as a whole.
Executes large-scale, professional removal of plastic pollution from sensitive environments (200 paid seasonal positions on Ocean Legacy cleanup teams).
Ensures communities have the tools, training, and confidence to prevent plastic pollution locally.
Builds the systems that turn recovered plastic into economic value.
Together, these interconnected programs stabilize and activate the full EPIC model—linking cleanup, infrastructure, policy, and education into a single, functioning system.
👉 To support EPIC Leadership Giving, donate to the Charitable Impact giving group for Ocean Legacy here:
If you’re interested in EPIC Leadership Giving beyond the options outlined here, we welcome the opportunity to connect and discuss how your philanthropy can help meet this moment. Contact us at donations [at] oceanlegacy [dot] ca.
Please include your email address for tax receipt, thank you for addressing your cheque payable to:
CHIMP Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada).
Attn: Financial Administration
Memo: Ocean Legacy Giving Group Donation
1500 West Georgia St.,
Suite 1300
Vancouver, BC
V6G 2Z6
Donors who would like to donate securities are welcome to fill out a Letter of Direction that your broker provides to you (or download this one).
Ocean Legacy Foundation is a registered Non-Profit Organization, Certificate of Incorporation: 907885-1 / (Federally Incorporated Non-Profit) BC Society number: XS-0063679 Please note: while Ocean Legacy issues all supporters a transaction receipt for donating directly to our nonprofit, charitable tax receipts are only available from Charitable Impact Foundation for donations received through the Ocean Legacy Giving Group. Please choose your preferred method of giving, and thanks for supporting our important cause… We sincerely could not do our work without donations from people like you.
