Shoreline Cleanup – Ocean Wise's AquaBlog

Ocean Wise® Wins Pollution Probe Award

November 23, 2018

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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

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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...

Not a Typical Day at the Office

Ocean Wise

November 8, 2017

Aquablog, Shoreline Cleanup

There's a cure for having “a case of the Mondays” and all you need to do is visit a local shoreline to find it. During Corporate Cleanup Month this past fall, nearly 200 workplace champions led cleanups that fo...

What’s Haunting Your Shoreline This Halloween?

Vancouver Aquarium

October 17, 2017

Ocean Wise, Shoreline Cleanup

What’s that sound coming from the shoreline? Did you hear that? That crinkling sound… is it a c-c-c-candy wrapper? What’s that doing on the shoreline? It doesn’t belong there. Oh no, now I hear something else, ...

Vancouver Becomes Second Official Clean Shoreline Community

Vancouver Aquarium

October 12, 2017

Ocean Wise, Shoreline Cleanup

The City of Vancouver, in partnership with the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, has become Canada’s second official Clean Shoreline Community. This designation acknowledges the City’s continued commitment to p...

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