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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…
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”
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…
#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…
