Shoreline Cleanup – Ocean Wise's AquaBlog

Shoreline Spotlight: Site Coordinator Tackles Litter on Foot and Flotilla

November 26, 2019

When a passion for waterways mixes with the determination to take action, amazing things can happen. Hamilton, Ontario resident Lee Brubacher had never organized a shoreline cleanup before, but this September ...

What a Summer! Reconnecting Toronto to Shorelines

Ocean Wise

November 18, 2019

Aquablog, Shoreline Cleanup

If you were in Toronto this summer, you may have been lucky enough to meet two summer educators of the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Brad Staite and Connor Thompson, took to the community each week to enga...

Shoreline cleanups happen everywhere – even in the Arctic!

Ocean Wise

November 5, 2019

Aquablog, Shoreline Cleanup

The students collected nearly 20kg of waste during their cleanups! What kind of litter is on an arctic shoreline? Plastic pollution in the ocean is ubiquitous it appears even in the most remote arctic regio...

Ocean Wise® Wins Pollution Probe Award

Ocean Wise

November 23, 2018

Education, Ocean Wise, Research - Plastics, Research Initiative - Microplastics, Research Initiative - Plastics Lab, Research Initiative - Plastics Lab, Research Initiative - PollutionTracker

The annual Pollution Probe Gala, called Living in the Plastic Age, calls attention to the crisis of plastic pollution on our planet. Pollution Probe has chosen to highlight Plastic Wise, an Ocean Wise initiativ...

Shoreline Spotlight: Instagrammable Beach Trash

Ocean Wise

February 9, 2018

Aquablog, Shoreline Cleanup

Working as a kayak guide in Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia, Jennifer MacLatchy began to collect marine debris she came across while paddling. Surprised by the amount of litter she collected, Jennifer used her arti...

A Tale of (Cleaning) Two Cities

Ocean Wise

December 13, 2017

Aquablog, Shoreline Cleanup

1

Every month, the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup leads a backyard cleanup at the Toronto and Vancouver offices. Obviously, these cleanups look very different depending on where they happen. In Toronto, the te...

Turning Trash into Treasure

Ocean Wise

November 22, 2017

Aquablog, Shoreline Cleanup, Vancouver Aquarium

The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup lives by the four Rs: refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle. Our volunteers do the same. Every year, we hear incredible stories of volunteers reusing materials found during shor...

Five Tips for Cleaning Remote Shorelines

Ocean Wise

November 15, 2017

Aquablog, Shoreline Cleanup, Vancouver Aquarium

When the Hanjin Shipping container spilled in British Columbia’s Juan De Fuca Strait in November 2016, many remote shorelines were affected. Surfrider Pacific Rim, the Vancouver Island chapter of an internation...

Tagged Shoreline Cleanup