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Hikers and families, to celebrate Earth Day in April, we are targeting to clean up a beach in South Lantau close to the Mui Wo Ferry terminal (1.5-2.0 km easy hike to the Cleanup Point) and we are looking for you to lend a helping hand for 15 to 30 minutes during your morning hike.
Eco Marine, founded in 2012, is a Lantau based organization with a mission to inspire greater appreciation and guardianship of nature and to catalyse action for integrating this mindset into all aspects of contemporary urban life. The Eco Marine Adventure Cleanup series aims to connect adventure sports, nature appreciation, and action on marine waste. Each adventure cleanup event combines a healthy and fun adventure sport, an ecological activity or challenge, and a coastline or in water cleanup. We target to engage diverse sports communities in the conversation about waste and challenge them to identify opportunities in their sport to tackle the waste problem at source.
Eco Marine is hosting a socially-distant hiking cleanup on Saturday April 10, 2021 in Mui Wo, Lantau to celebrate an early Earth Day!
Many of Hong Kong’s beautiful beaches are maintained and cleaned by full time staff to make them safe for us to enjoy. However, hidden out of the public eye, Hong Kong’s remote beaches and coastlines are filled with man made plastic rubbish that has washed ashore with daily and storm tides. Everything moves with gravity towards the ocean and any waste not properly captured on land flows into the ocean. Once there, it can wash up on any coastline. It is horrific to see a trash filled beach and at the micro level, this rubbish disrupts the natural habitat of many species ranging from crabs and molluscs to birds and fish.
Event:
Eco Marine staff will set up a cleaning station from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon at the Cleanup Point with bags, gloves, tongs and hand sanitizer and will give short cleanup briefings to participants as they arrive at different times.
Come join us at the Cleanup Point for 15 to 30 minutes anytime between 9:00am and 12:00 noon to help clean up a small portion of the coastline. Participants will conduct the cleanup in groups of 1 to 4 and we will limit total participants at any given time to comply with social distancing measures.
At the end of the session, Eco Marine will weigh all the rubbish collected to document our collective impact. We will also be engaging volunteers to bring suitable items for recycling to GREEN@Mui Wo.
Prize:
Volunteers will have the chance to win an Involuntary Pairs Game! This card game zooms in on plastic pollution in the oceans, making the magnitude of the crisis visible. It’s a dynamic way to see, understand and grasp the fate and implications of our plastic age.
Cleanup Point:
Small Beach around 1.5-2.0 km from Mui Wo Ferry Terminal https://goo.gl/maps/bwsYFLjSdQuNtuy16
Walk in reverse along Lantau Trail Section 12 and then make a left down a short steep concrete path at the Eco Marine signage.
Contact:
Keilem (Tel/Whatsapp 63920336)
What to wear:
Comfortable exercise or hiking clothes with closed toe shoes and sun protection.
What to bring:
There is no need to bring any cleanup equipment. Eco Marine will provide gloves, tongs, rubbish bags and hand sanitizer. However, If you have your own gloves and or other equipment you would prefer to use, please feel free to along.
Fee:
This is a free event but there is a suggested donation of HK$20 per person for contribution to future Eco Marine public events. (Cash at event or Payme to +852 63920336)
Signup:
Please SIGN UP via this GOOGLE FORM to help us with planning.
Not allowed:
No single-use plastic bottles or food containers/wrappers!
Disclaimer:
By joining this event, all participants are deemed to have agreed to the terms and conditions contained in this disclaimer, and agreed to exonerate the event leaders, the organizers and any other participants in the event from any liabilities, claims, including but not limited to liabilities and claims as a result of any injuries or deaths or damages arising thereof. Volunteers joining the event are at their own choosing and at their own risk.