The Cleaning Quest

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Each of us has our individual responsibility to better the ocean's ecosystem by cleaning the beaches. Let's play our part and Register Now!
Join us on 26th April at Aa. Rasdhoo!
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Beach clean-ups are certainly great as both environmental education and engagement activities. People really get to see close up the result of littering irresponsibly.

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Thai entrepreneur turns used flip-flops into a sustainable business.
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Trash in the water and on the shore can kill marine animals, injure swimmers and beachgoers.

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Ocean trash is a serious pollution problem that affects the health of people, wildlife and local economies.

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Single-use-plastics, i.e items that have been designed to be used only once and then thrown away, make up 50 percent of all beach litter.

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Some of the most common items found during beach cleanups include cigarette butts (with plastic filters), food wrappers, bottles, bottle caps, and shopping bags.

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After just one hour of exposure, a cigarette butt can contaminate almost 8 liters of water with unhealthy and dangerous chemicals.

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According to volunteers, beach cleanups make them more mindful of how they dispose of their own disposables.

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Did you know that cigarette butts are the most frequently littered item on Earth?
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Removing litter from beach guarantees that marine wildlife won’t come into contact with it and perhaps find itself at risk in some way or another.

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Over the past few years, the world has woken up to horrifying headlines about sea life that has unfortunately died due to consuming or being trapped by the waste we throw in the oceans.

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Did you now that about 1 million plastic drink bottles are sold around the world every minute?

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Nets, lines, and other fishing gear is often lost or intentionally discarded into the open ocean. They are a huge source of mortality for many marine species; dolphins, whales, sharks, rays, turtles, seals and sea lions and countless others.

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Zero Plastic Run doesn’t only focus on cleaning and getting rid of trash, but also on reducing and single-use plastic

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Cleaning your local beach is a brilliant start, but together there is so much more we can do to fight the scourge of plastic pollution.

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A thousand years is plenty of time for the plastic to fragment and be consumed by organisms. Once this happens it has entered the food chain, and soon, potentially, our stomachs.

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'"One million plastic cups are used on US domestic flights alone — every six hours — those numbers are far beyond what we can even comprehend,"

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'Beach clean-ups have become a popular activity as part of humanity’s ‘bid to save the planet’. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people globally participate in ridding the shores of plastic.

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'cleanup is a great start — but the real change is going to have to come from not producing and using so many plastic items'.

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'An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste (from us!) is making its way into the ocean every year, which in turn can impact over 800 species of ocean life'.

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