By Juliet Lyon | Director
We are so grateful to those who helped us get FULLY FUNDED to clean the beaches of Vilankulo every week for all of 2023!
Heading into December, we are on track to clear 4 tons of waste from the beaches this year!
75% of that was glass and other waste.
25% was plastic and aluminum that will get recycled back into the "circular economy" - mostly single use fizzy drink and water bottles!
Our Beach Cleanup activists woke up extra early last Saturday morning, headed to the beach, started filling a sack with every little piece of litter they could find - including waterlogged shirts wrapped around mangrove trees, countless Frozy bottles and plastic motoroil jugs lying in the sand. When the first sack was full, they dropped it off by the beach road for Ilidio to pick up and started filling another sack. Stopping only to share bolo (fried dough twists), they carried on until they reached the end of their section of the beach (where another group started). And so, over 10 miles was covered.
A little later, Ilidio trecked along the beach road in an old blue pickup truck to gather up the full sacks.
Back at the plastic center, the activists met up again to unload, separate, weigh, and store the litter in piles - for the recycling plant or the landfill. The 68 sacks worth of litter they collected will NOT go back into the ocean where turtles and fish and other marine beings are peacefully living out the cycles of their lives.
We think that the litter free beaches are happy, along with the beachgoers, the ocean creatures, and the materials that go back into the circular economy...
THANK YOU FOR HELPING US KEEP PLASTIC OUT OF OCEAN!
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