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Join the “Cleanup Across Canada” challenge with #TeamShoreline

September 23, 2020

Plastics

This year the challenge is bigger than ever! The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is challenging Canadians to come together — while apart — in a “Cleanup Across Canada”, where participa...

Clean Shoreline Communities: municipalities as leaders in the fight against plastic pollution

July 31, 2020

Plastics

Plastic litter is a critical issue facing all of Canada's waterways in communities across the country, from lakes and rivers to every ocean coastline. Unfortunately, much of the plastic waste that ends up in t...

Ocean Wise applauds Government of Canada’s commitment to protect 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030

July 21, 2020

Ocean Wise, Ocean Wise Seafood, Plastics

Canada joins international group of 22 countries to protect ocean Canada is an ocean nation with the longest coastline in the world. And Canadians rely on healthy marine ecosystems to sustain our econo...

#TeamShoreline needs your help reaching one million citizens by September

July 13, 2020

Plastics

We’ve missed you! After putting cleanups on hold for nearly four months, the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup will relaunch on July 14th to solo, household and small team cleanups. In March, the program asked ...

Ocean Wise is celebrating ‘World Oceans Day’ for the entire month of June!

June 3, 2020

Education, Ocean Wise Seafood, Plastics, Vancouver Aquarium

June 8 is World Oceans Day, the global movement to recognize the importance of our shared ocean, celebrate the amazing plants and animals within it, and consider humanity’s dependence on a healthy blue pla...

Seeing our shorelines through a different lens

May 5, 2020

Ocean Bridge | Portail Océan, Ocean Wise, Plastics

Connor Garrod is a photographer and an alumnus of the Ocean Bridge program Art has a way of bringing hope even through difficult times.Seeing our shorelines littered with trash is always very depressing to ...

United for Shoreline

January 30, 2020

Plastics

Teaming up to cleanup always makes for great results. When senior and executive leaders from Westminster Savings Credit Union and Prospera Credit Union met at the White Rock pier, they did not expect the amoun...

Cleaning Canada’s Shoreline: 2019 in Review

December 17, 2019

Plastics

An outstanding number of Canadians of all ages took to their shorelines in support of healthy waterways this year. The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup saw record-breaking numbers of cleanups happening from co...