Cleaning the natural environment while demonstrating the use of sustainable waste management strategies.
Date/Time: Sep 11 2016, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Richmond, Steveston Harbour
Hosted by The Ocean Legacy Foundation
Ocean Legacy Foundation officials expect this expedition to improve the environment, raise awareness and generate social buzz in Canada and the world. In addition to the clean up efforts, a documentary is being filmed during the expedition that will showcase the hard work being done, some of the people making it happen and the effects of plastic pollution on the shores of British Columbia. Additionally, clean up of tsunami debris will be documented and studied.
About Ocean Legacy
The Ocean Legacy Foundation has been working the Westcoast of Vancouver Island by removing solid waste pollution since 2014. Over the last two seasons Ocean Legacy Foundation has removed roughly 20 metric tonnes of material from Nootka Island, Catala Island and MuQwin/ Brooks Peninsula.
The Ocean Legacy Foundation uses clean-up expeditions, on-line mapping, education and plastics-to-oil technologies to isolate the world's most plastic polluted areas into remediation. These tools allow us to emerge a strong global network into action; cleaning the natural environment while demonstrating the use of sustainable waste management strategies.
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