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Northern Beaches Clean Up Crew
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Do you think something like this would work on the beaches? #northernbeachescleanupcrew #beachcleanup  At least 40% of plastics are single-use. While convenient, they’re discarded after just one use. The amount of time, energy and effort that goes into producing, exporting and importing these products just doesn’t add up - especially if they’re made to last forever. So why do "Barbetta" coffee shop in Sydney, use single use stickers to mark coffee cups? Surely there are better alternatives. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #plasticfree  Stop producing it in the first place, stop buying it in the second place, stop littering it in the third place. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #plasticfree  A critically endangered Hawksbill turtle was found in a very poor condition at Manly beach last night. Seabird Rescue Central Coast (that also specialises in turtles) did their best to give advice how to care for the turtle overnight but it sadly passed away. Taronga Zoo performed a necropsy on the turtle and they found the turtles stomach full of plastic and fishing lines. Please always take your rubbish with you, reduce your single-use plastic footprint and dispose fishing lines safely. This turtle would have lived if it wasn't for irresponsible humans. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #plastic #turtle  A huge thank you to everyone who contacted Woolworths on the Corso in Manly today in regards to them having balloons as part of their opening celebration. Also, thank you to Woolworths for listening to the Manly community. Balloons land in the ocean and choke sea turtles, kill dolphins and whales, and the ribbons entangle birds. Many times, they end up on a beach as litter. Even the ones marked "biodegradable" can hurt animals before they have a chance to break down. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #balloons  Chipped teapot. Don’t landfill it. Donate it to a bird😀❤️ It even has its own drainage system... #northernbeachescleanupcrew #birds #nature #teapot #wildlife #animals  We just want to say a massive THANK YOU to all legends who had a stall at Manly Ocean Festival yesterday, to all legends who bought a reusable product, to all legends who stopped for a friendly chat, to everyone who clean up beaches and to all legends that volunteered their time believing in a good cause and healthier oceans. THANK YOU. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #thankyou  Crew members come in all sizes, cultural backgrounds and ages and they all got kind hearts. Please join us for one of our clean ups. They're always the last Sunday of every month at 10am. Make a good deed for the planet and make new friends at the same time. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #friends  This week the first batch of the brand new reverse vending solutions emerged from Tomra's production facility, ready to hit supermarkets and redemption centers for recyclers keen to empty an entire bag of drink containers in seconds. Hopefully we'll see them in Australia soon too. #returnandearn #northernbeachescleanupcrew  Tired of seeing pictures like these? Do you want a national ban on releasing helium balloons? Let the government know: https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1175 #northernbeachescleanupcrew #balloons  We love this. Hopefully it will be filled with reusable cups next time too. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #recycling   We would love your support so we can buy some more pickers and gumboots and hopefully one day a trailer. If you'd like to support us scan this barcode at the "Return & Earn" machines and click PayOut and your bottles and cans will contribute to our cause: community engagement, litter reduction, good deeds and friendships. We also have a fundraiser - see our other tab. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #returnandearn  A disgruntled Coles shopper has lambasted the supermarket over excessive packaging on her latest online order, branding it a “blatant disregard” for the planet. The customer, from Canberra, took to the supermarket giant’s Facebook page to express her discontent over the amount of fruit and vegetable bags used to package her fresh produce, despite requesting to have no bags. “Having one onion or one lemon in a plastic bag is really not necessary and makes me quite furious about the waste and blatant disregard for the climate,” she said. However a Coles spokesperson responded to the customer’s post online, saying it wasn’t possible to omit plastic fruit and vegetable bags for “health and safety reasons”. “We can advise that plastic bags are essential to keep your items together during the shopping process, and are necessary for health and safety reasons with some products,” the spokesperson said. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #plasticfree   PLEASE SHARE. If you would like to help support us, please get a meal at Grill'd in Dee Why this November and put the token in the jar with our name on it. We're saving to buy a proper trailer for the crew to help not only all crew members but also this planet. If you don't like burgers we also got a fundraiser here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ts762-northern-beaches-clean-up-crew #northernbeachescleanupcrew #beachcleanup  Pros and Cons of shirts made from different material. Recycled Plastic & Polyester: -Uses less water and can be considered as more environmentally friendly to produce. -Whenever it’s washed, it releases micro plastics into the environment. -Cheap to make. -Lasts for centuries (doesn’t decompose). -Burns/melts/is more flammable, releases toxic fumes. Cotton: -Takes a ton of water to produce and production can be harmful for the environment (worsens soil quality, labor intensive, uses insane amounts of water). -Degrades over time (decomposes). -More expensive to produce. -Less flammable than petroleum/plastic based items. Maybe we should all just go naked. 🙈 #northernbeachescleanupcrew #plastic #plasticfree  A recent audit on plastic trash around the world concluded that Coca-Cola was the largest plastic polluter. The audit, conducted by Break Free From Plastic, consisted of 84 cleanup events across 50 countries and six continents. In total, 72,000 volunteers combed through beaches, city streets, waterways and their neighborhoods picking up pieces of plastic. The organization’s volunteers collected a total of over 475,000 pieces of plastic waste around the world. Of the plastic collected, the No. 1 brand was from Coca-Cola, with 11,732 items collected. As you can see from the figure below, the second was Nestle and the third PepsiCo. The purpose of the cleanup event was twofold, both to help clean up public places of plastic pollution but also to identify which companies are responsible for the majority of plastic pollution in our environment. While there are ongoing efforts to increase recycling rates, global studies have found that more than a million plastic bottles are bought per minute and 91% of them are not recycled. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #plasticfree  We welcome the NSW Environment Minister’s recent announcement that he will develop a wide-ranging plastic waste reduction strategy, but the government must move quickly because we are now the only state in the country yet to #banthebag. A 2016 EPA review estimated that NSW still consumes 2 billion plastic bags each year, only 14% of which are recycled. The major supermarkets’ self-imposed ban has seen this number reduced, but every bag produced adds to the 580,000 pieces of plastic found in every square kilometre of ocean. Turtles, dolphins and whales die of intestinal blockage when they mistake plastic bags for jellyfish. What we will lose in trivial convenience will pale in comparison to the price our planet and oceans have had to pay. Now that Victoria have joined the likes of Bangladesh, the UK and 127 countries worldwide who have banned the bag, New South Wales must be the next. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #banthebag #plastic  This dolphin died because someone was too lazy to cut the ring from their bottle. Pic: unknown as well as location #northernbeachescleanupcrew #plastic  "City Farm Nursery" has taken a great step (not always well received) in the war against plastic. Since they have added the coffee machine to their tiny community nursery they have not bought any takeaway cups. It has been close to 6 months. We're so happy to see other cafes have taken this step as well. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #keepcup  Soyfish - probably the most common fish in the ocean today. We haven't done a beach clean up without finding hundreds of these. Why is is such a common practice for sushi shops to give you these single use silly little plastic fish instead of asking if you want some soy sauce on your sushi poured from a glass bottle? #northernbeachescleanupcrew #soyfish  Sad truth ... 😔 ... but sense of humour might help spread the word... 😉 #northernbeachescleanupcrew #plasticfree  |
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