May 8: DOCK FOAM FLOAT COLLECTION PILOT
DOCK FOAM FLOAT COLLECTION PILOT Starting May 8, 2026, Pre-registration begins. Secure your spot! Download Poster What is this? Ocean Legacy, in partnership with the Province of BC, and the shíshálh Nation, is launching a pilot program that collects and responsibly manages foam dock floats from within the shíshálh swiya Dock Management Plan area to […]
10 Easy to Implement Ways to Reduce Your Daily Plastic Consumption
By Kierstyn Clough – Guest Author for Ocean Legacy Plastic pollution and waste is a large problem on our planet. Since plastic was invented in 1907, it has managed to take over and toxify our land, oceans, and even our bodies in a matter of 116 years. Canada is home to the longest coastline in […]
LIVE: Sept 8, 2018 – Launching the First Ocean Cleanup System 001
LIVE TODAY, Sept 8, We are down with The Ocean Cleanup crew, launching the first ocean cleanup System 001 from Alameda! Join us and watch live!
New Report: GROWING ISSUE OF PLASTIC MARINE DEBRIS from Vancouver Island University & Ocean Legacy
This report was just published between The Ocean Legacy Foundation and the University of Vancouver Island…
RETHINK PLASTIC – and save our oceans – Sign the Petition #StopSingleUse – Canadian Wildlife Federation
YOUR ENDORSEMENT IS NEEDED FOR A NATIONAL PETITION! We have an environmental disaster that is quietly happening to one of Canada’s greatest natural heritages …the lakes, rivers and oceans that make up our precious waterways! #stopsingleuse Plastic is everywhere. It makes up the bags at our grocery stores and the lids of our coffee […]
A Plastic Ocean – We Need a Wave of Change – Film
BUY OR RENT THE FILM TODAY AND HELP CREATE A WAVE OF CHANGE! (All proceeds directly benefit the Plastic Oceans Foundation) VISIT PLASTIC OCEANS FOR MORE INFO: http://www.plasticoceans.ca/ About the Film: Scientists Solving a Jigsaw Puzzle…Gyre by Gyre If it was happening in one gyre, they suspected it was happening in all of them. But […]
7 Trash Management Techniques for Preventing Ocean Contamination
Written for The Ocean Legacy Foundation by Erich Lawson Marine trash is becoming a major problem around the globe, poisoning our oceans and throwing their natural ecosystems out of balance. Toxic chemicals, crude oil and plastic are particularly dangerous, breaking down into small particles that are swallowed by fish, birds and marine mammals, causing reproductive […]
Now Newspaper: HIDDEN HEROES, Surrey couple is keen to clean the globe’s oceans
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 […]
The Big Sort – Haikai Magazine
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 […]
CBC News: Scores of children help divert beach garbage from landfill
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 […]
40 Tons of Marine Debris Collected From Beach in British Columbia – Global News
A barge loaded with 40 tonnes of marine garbage collected by volunteers arrived in Richmond Tuesday…
Colossal cleanup effort in Pacific Rim National Park – WesterlyNews.ca
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 […]
‘Garbarge’ delivers tonnes of marine debris recovered from B.C. coast
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 […]