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  2. Beach cleaning - Wikipedia

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    Beach cleaning or clean-up is the process of removing solid litter, dense chemicals, and organic debris deposited on a beach or coastline by the tide, local visitors, or tourists. Humans pollute beaches with materials such as plastic bottles and bags , plastic straws , fishing gear , cigarette filters , six-pack rings , surgical masks and many ...

  3. Marine conservation - Wikipedia

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    Ocean Conservancy and its International Coastal Cleanup is an example of a public-facing campaign that aims to increase participation in conservation efforts among every day civilians. On a predetermined date every year, Ocean Conservancy promotes The International Coastal Cleanup to rally communities to volunteer to collect trash from the ...

  4. Marine conservation activism - Wikipedia

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    The International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) is one of the methods Ocean Conservancy uses to prevent marine debris. The ICC is the largest volunteer effort to clean up the world's oceans and other waterways; over the past 25 years the ICC has cleaned up approximately 144,606,491 pounds of trash from beaches all over the world. [8]

  5. Clean-up (environment) - Wikipedia

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    Volunteers at recycling center Sure We Can clean-up McKibbin Street on Earth Day, 2021. A cleanup or clean-up is a form of environmental volunteering where a group of people get together to pick-up and dispose of litter in a designated location.

  6. Ocean Conservancy - Wikipedia

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    The main event of the organization is the International Coastal Cleanup, a day where over 150 countries gather to clean up beaches and oceans. [17] The movement was created by Linda Maraniss and Kathy O'Hara in 1986 when they organized the Ocean Conservancy's first local cleanup event .

  7. Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup - Wikipedia

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    In 1994, employees and volunteers at the Vancouver Aquarium decided to clean up a beach in Stanley Park in Vancouver, to protect the city’s shorelines. From that first cleanup, the program expanded across British Columbia and by 1997, 400 volunteers were participating in the Great B.C. Beach Cleanup at 20 sites.

  8. The Ocean Cleanup - Wikipedia

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    The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit environmental engineering organization based in the Netherlands that develops and deploys technology to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and to capture it in rivers before it can reach the ocean. Their initial focus was on the Pacific Ocean and its garbage patch, and extended to rivers in countries ...

  9. Osborne Reef - Wikipedia

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    The expansion ultimately failed, and the reef has come to be considered an environmental disaster—ultimately doing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters. In 2007, after several false starts, cleanup efforts began when the United States military took on the project. This cleanup exercise provided the military with a real-world ...