For 23 years, the Ocean Conservatory has been cleaning up beaches around the world through volunteer power! On September 19th, 2009, volunteers world wide will get out and participate in the 24th annual INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP! Last year 400,000 volunteers removed over 6.8 million pounds of garbage. Here in San Francisco, the SF Dept of Public Works (although I am not sure of the relationship) will be doing their annual clean up at Warm Water Cove, which is listed on the Ocean Conservatory website as a clean up location. I have participated in several SFDPW cleanups around SF in the past 2 years and I encourage everyone to do so. By joining this particular clean up you will be part of a world-wide coordinated effort to remove human material waste from the oceans and beaches. You can read last years OC International Cleanup Report at the link below as well as sign up online for a clean up near you. If you can participate in the SFDPW cleanup, they provide lunch and protective equipment as well as properly recycling and disposing of the garbage.
Hope to see you there!!
~Shawn
http://www.signuptocleanup.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Projects.View&Project_ID=1557
http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/DocServer/ICCmarineDebrisGuideReadOnly.pdf?docID=5441
www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer
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