E P I C | Plastic Pollution Emergency Response™
A Global Tragedy for Our Oceans and Sea Life Plastic never goes away. And it’s increasingly finding its way into our oceans and onto our beaches. In the Los Angeles area alone, 10 metric tons of plastic fragments — like grocery bags, straws and soda bottles — are carried into the Pacific Ocean every…
by Kimberly Amaral Strolling through the average supermarket, shoppers find literally hundreds (if not thousands) of items to make their lives easier. Individually wrapped snack cakes, plastic baggies to store sandwiches for lunch, unbreakable soda bottles, and disposable razors, diapers, and shampoo bottles. Unless specifically requested, even the bags we use to carry home…
The ocean is turning into a plastic soup. Most plastic pollution at sea starts out on land as litter on beaches, streets and sidewalks. Rain or overwatering flushes that litter through a storm drain system or directly to creeks, streams and rivers that lead to the ocean. After plastics enter the marine environment they…
Most marine debris (80%) comes from trash and debris in urban runoff, i.e. land-based sources. Key components of land-based sources include litter, trash and debris from construction, ports and marinas, commercial and industrial facilities, and trash blown out of garbage containers, trucks, and landfills.1 Ocean-based sources, such as, overboard discharges from ships and discarded fishing…
A coordinated marine-debris cleanup described as the largest in Canadian history is underway all along B.C online task planner.’s west coast. via B.C. coast to see historic cleanup of marine debris as Japanese tsunami money runs out — Vancouver Sun Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter…
We would like to make a special announcement and welcome a few new sponsors to our growing team. Please proudly welcome Greig Seafood BC Ltd, Helly Hansen and Cargill. They have donated considerably to our cause and we would like to honour their contribution in making cleaner oceans.
