E P I C | Plastic Pollution Emergency Response™
LUSH Cosmetics has offered us a two week temporary space to unload all of our material with access to a baler! Our material will be heading to some of the most innovative plastic upcycling projects happening right now! EDIT: Check out our event for “The 14 Day Upcycling Challenge”
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…
Times Colonist 21 Sep 2016 JEFF LEE ARNT ARNTZEN, LIVING OCEANS SOCIETYA coastal recovery operation began Tuesday to clear dozens of beaches on the west coast of Vancouver Island of debris and plastics. Much of it washed ashore after the 2011 tsunami that swept Japan. Work began Tuesday to clear dozens of beaches on the…
#LIVE #oceanlegacy Weighing in at 79,000lbs. We salvaged this barge and a lot of the material on it. We have more material on the Gar Barge and are getting to work this week to prep and sort all this material. This barge also has material from SurfRider, SALTS and NTC! A huge thank you to…
