Entangled in Plastic Free-dom
The more convenient the food option, the more likely it is to come in a plastic container. It’s mid-July and the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup team is entangled in plastic dilemmas for this year’s Plastic Fr...
I Spy With My Little Eye…
Have you ever gone for a walk along a shoreline and taken a close look to see what you can find? One morning, we joined a class from Lord Selkirk Elementary School for a scheduled beach walk and shoreline clean...
Cleaning Shorelines in Style
A shoreline cleanup may not sound like a glamourous event, but this is bound to change, thanks to student-turned-fashion-designer Kylee Gill from White Rock B.C. Kylee has strived to develop a connection betwee...
A Call to Action: 5.5 Million Kg of Worldwide Coastal Debris
The results are hot off the press: more than 5.5 million kilograms of trash was removed by nearly 650,000 volunteers from shorelines around the world last year through the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coas...
Diving into Marine Debris
Global adventurer and ocean advocate Ben Lecomte is the newest ambassador for Vancouver Aquarium and WWF's Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, presented by Loblaw Companies Limited.
Lecomte is an open water sw...
Shoreline Cleanup: Tackling Tsunami Debris
The magnitude-9 earthquake that rattled northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011 unleashed a savage tsunami that washed an estimated five million tonnes of debris into the sea. About 70 per cent of it sank off the ...
Saving our Waters, One Butt at a Time
In 2012, the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup collected more than 419,000 cigarette butts from shorelines across Canada, over 25 per cent of which were diverted to TerraCycle's Cigarette Waste Brigade program.
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Countdown is ON…Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
You see it along the shorelines of your local rivers, lakes, beaches...harmful, unseemly litter. Now is the perfect opportunity for you to do something about it, because the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup beg...