Eco Marine Gallery

eco marine x living islands movement Father’s Day Cleanup

A fantastic effort by 26 volunteers + three dogs hiking and kayaking to several beaches in Mui Wo for Eco Marine x Living Islands Movement Father’s Day Cleanup. We picked up 34 masks, 42 bottles, 526kg of rubbish and 4 large ghost nets! Two crabs were also rescued from the nets and released back to sea.

Thank you to Double Haven and Yardley Brothers Craft Brewery for the delicious Trashwave beer!

World Oceans Day

We partnered with EcoDrive HK, Sino Group and C & MA Tai O Kindergarten to clean up two beaches in Tai O. 135.8kg of rubbish was collected and 106 plastic beverage bottles recycled. Thank you to all the volunteers who came out to help and celebrate World Oceans Day together by making a difference on these Lantau coastal sites.

Tuesday, 8 June 2021

early Earth Day Cleanup

24 volunteers came out to the socially distant hiking adventure beach cleanup in Mui Wo. We cleared 123.5kg of rubbish and also recycled 2kg of plastic bottles at the community recycling shop. Happy Early Earth Day!

Saturday, 10 April 2021

cycling Adventure Cleanup

A sunny day in Sunny Bay for our very first cycling cleanup event! It was a huge success thanks to friends spreading the word and coming to help with the heavy lifting!

55 volunteers arrived in shifts picking up 292kg of rubbish, 302 plastic beverage bottles, 90 drink cans and even two rusty abandoned bicycles. Thank you all for helping to make Hong Kong a more beautiful place.
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#cyclingcleanup #adventurecleanup #whatcanido #unnaturepile #raphaasia

Sunday, February 21 2021

Coffee Candle Workshop
Encompass hk x Café Sausalito x Ril Creed x Eco Marine

We so appreciate collaborating with like minded people. We worked with Encompass HK @encompasssdg , RIL CREED @rilcreed and Café Sausalito @cafesausalito in an Eco Marine Art Collective upcycling workshop turning used glass jars, coffee grounds and leather offcuts into unique holiday scented candles. We also had a coffee tasting and learned about sustainable pour over coffee.

Thank you to everyone who came. We hope you had a great time!

At Eco Marine, we believe that through hand making we can slow down and examine what goes into creating an item.

The materials: Where do they come from?
The labour: Who is the maker?
The skills involved: What are these?

We hope we can inspire everyone to reflect on these questions in their everyday life.

Saturday, 14 November 2020

Yi O Farm x Eco Marine Halloween Mangrove cleanup and Rice harvest

We returned to Yi O Farm for our second collaboration. The weather was perfect for a mangrove cleanup and rice harvest. 159kg of rubbish was collected from the wetland giving the plants and animals living there a little more space to breathe .

Saturday, 31 October 2020

Yi o Farm x Eco marine mangrove cleanup and Rice farming experience

Yi O (near Tai O in South West Lantau) is adjacent to the coast with the shoreline made up of rocky coastline, small sandy beach areas, and wetlands—home to valuable plants like mangroves and grasses along with numerous animal species like herons, mudskippers and endangered horseshoe crabs.

The Yi O Farm Cooperative has been working with indigenous villagers on reviving local organic farming there. Rice is harvested twice a year and is done by hand using a sickle. 

Thank you to the hardworking volunteers who braved the hot weather to help fill bags and bags full of manmade trash washed ashore. This ranged from macro debris such as polystyrene containers, single use plastic cups, food wrappers, single use beverage bottles, and nets to micro debris like plastic filament, broken down polystyrene and the ever present pre production plastic pellets.

We will be organizing another event with Yi O farm later in the season so keep an eye out for that and join us next time.

Sunday, 5 July 2020

In Restoration—

We led a 19km hike along with a clean-up at Fan Lau Stone Circle beach in South Lantau. The beach was ankle to knee deep in mostly plastic rubbish, all swept ashore from the open sea. This event brought volunteers to witness and document the site and to take part in an Eco Marine Art Collective in-situ work titled In Restoration—. A pathway cleared of plastic, polystyrene and plenty of footwear was the first iteration of this art installation.

In Restoration—How can we truly heal the planet and restore nature?
Interacting with this scarred and rubbish strewn landscape, we uncover and once again reveal the natural surface that lies beneath. As we dig through and intentionally sort, remove and curate a sliver in this looming field of manmade plastic trash, we identify how it relates back to us as individuals. How do our daily choices impact this planet we call home and what does it all mean in the scope of stewardship? How lasting will our actions be?

Saturday, 22 February 2020

Eco Marine x Translantau Adventure Cleanup

40 volunteers came out to the Eco Marine x Translantau Adventure Cleanup and Trail Run. We spent a wonderful morning in nature, ran and hiked 8km and cleared 270kg of rubbish from Shap Long beach. We also made an art installation Woven Ashore—a Conversation with the Wrack Line directed by Eco Marine Artist in Residence Salome Tam. Beach cleanup volunteers were invited to take part in creating this piece and in the process, to reflect on their personal relationship with plastic and consider changes to make in their daily life.

Saturday, 16 November 2019

Eco Marine x The Green Race Plog

Great job ploggers! We cleared 88kg of trash plogging 7.5km along two beaches off the race trail and raised over HK$4000 for Exchange and Empower! Thank you the The Green Race for hosting us at the Tigershead Race start and finish line.

Saturday, 24 August 2019

BIOTHERM X ECO MARINE

86kg of plastic beach trash collected in South Lantau by Hong Kong youth taking part in Biotherm’s Be a Water Lover summer program. Many first time cleanup participants and tons of youthful energy!

Saturday, 13 July 2019

nature/unnaturepiles

Naturepiles are temporary installations made in situ from found natural materials. They speak of the beauty of our surroundings, our relationship with nature and the passage of time. They serve as markings of special memories when out exploring and adventuring.      

In collaboration with Eco Marine, the nature/unnaturepile series was created to highlight the impact we have on the environment, especially through single use plastic in our lives. For this series, a naturepile is made alongside an unnaturepile of found ocean plastic waste. After documenting the two together in one location, the unnaturepile is removed with other collected plastic waste items from the clean up at that specific site.

Tai O heritage hotel x Eco Marine

We love Tai O and the Tai O community! Thank you to Tai O Heritage Hotel and the Tai O community for working with us to clean up not one, but two coastal sites including beach and mangrove habitats. We cleared 155kg of rubbish and got a chance to see many tiny crabs.

Friday, 13 November 2020

Ril Creed x Eco Marine holiday candle upcycling workshop

We poured scented candles using condiment or old candle jars. Leather bands were created using offcuts from the leather bag industry that RIL CREED rescues and saves from going to the landfill.

Sunday, 1 November 2020

mui wo community ghost net Action
—Mark, Merrin (Living Islands Movement), Keilem (Eco Marine)

Since early April 2020, Mark has been snorkelling, surveying the coast line between Mui Wo Beach to Man Kok Wan and has discovered multiple ghost nets in shallow waters trapping and killing marine life including fish and numerous crabs. We aim to gather together community members to remove these nets over 2020.

To date, 75+ large nets have been cleared from within an approximately 1km stretch of coastline from Tung Wan Tau to Man Kok Wan. The next action date is July 19, 2020 from 2:15pm to 6:00pm to take advantage of the low tide. If you’d like to join us, sign up on our facebook event page.

Sunday, 21 June 2020

lance x eco marine back to school adventure cleanup

Great turnout for our cleanup at Tung Chung Bay! Lance, a 10 year old student and young climate activist, joined forces with Eco Marine to host a coastal cleanup on Saturday, 28 September 2019. The Tung Chung River and Tung Chung Bay are of high ecological value. Although close to much development, the area still boasts great biodiversity and is home to many species of wildlife including horseshoe crabs, mudskippers and egrets. At the same time, this coastal area faces huge challenges, being opposite the airport and reclamation project for the third runway as well as the recently opened HK-Macau-Zhuhai bridge. 31 volunteers collected 107kg of rubbish amidst beautiful weather and a rich showcase of mangrove life. It was also our first time rescuing a live horseshoe crab!

Saturday, 28 September 2019

Kayak + Beach Cleanup

Great day out on the water around Pak Lap and Town Island area in Sai Kung. 12 volunteers including 5 first time cleanup volunteers paddled 10km, saw millions of hexagonal rock columns, visited 3 sea caves, 2 beaches, and had 1 picnic. Some of us swam as well and saw local coral communities and small tropical fish. We enjoyed the spectacular beauty of nature but also witnessed the large amount of rubbish clogging up sea caves and remote beaches. We ended the day working on a cleanup at one of these beaches collecting 54kg of rubbish including over 700 single use beverage bottles (we lost count beyond 700) and a ridiculous amount of polystyrene.

Sunday, 8 September, 2019

underwater and beach cleanup

The weather cooperated for a rain free beach and underwater cleanup on the last day of August. 53kg of trash was collected on land and 32 kg from underwater. Most unique finds included a refrigerator door, a giant joss stick and a game boy case. Thanks to all the volunteers and to Mandarin Divers for hosting us on their boat.

Saturday, 31 August 2019

Plogging for world cleanup day—Eco marine x The greenrace

Eco Marine Adventure Cleanup in collaboration with The Green Race organized a coastal trail cleanup ‘plog’ on the southern shore of the Starling Inlet on 15.09.2018. The event coincided with the Immortals trail race 27km route and ploggers and runners were able to cheer each other on! Ploggers picked up rubbish on the trail/shoreline between Luk Keng and CP3 (Kuk Po) of the race route.

Saturday, September 15 2018

Go Green! Ma Wan! Family Beach Cleanup

Eco Marine hosted a family friendly beach cleanup and beach art workshop at Park Island in support of the Go Green! Ma Wan! campaign organized by Café Roma. Have a look at a video of the day.

Sunday, 22 July 2018

VOGue HK x Eco marine

VOGUE HK and Eco Marine Adventure Cleanup organized a paddleboard and family beach cleanup event in May 2019 at Stanley Main Beach.

Vogue loves Hong Kong! landed officially in March and Vogue was happy to join hands with Eco Marine on their first CSR project to arouse public awareness on ocean protection. They had La Mer on board as the sponsor of this event in celebration of World Oceans Day.

The concept of the campaign was “I See What They Sea” —to see things through the eyes of the children & adults who pledge to protect the ocean for the following generations.

Sunday, 19 May 2019

LUSH Live Central 2018

LUSH Live Central took place May 12-13 and showcased organizations addressing animal protection, human rights, and environmental conservation in Hong Kong. Eco Marine focused on personal actions and highlighted various #1person1site projects. We brought to PMQ the #natureunnaturepile series for the ocean trash installation and led an ocean plastic upcycling art session which turned out whimsical and unique pieces of work by all who took part.

Saturday + Sunday, May 12-13 2018