Living Seas Hong Kong is happy to have had a very successful cleanup event on the 19th October. We had a total of 44 volunteers, and we managed to cleanup a total of 670kgs of trash in 53 bags..

勃勃海洋 2014 年10月19日於碧沙灣舉行了海灘水底清潔活動，共有44名志願者參加，收集了53袋６７０公斤垃圾，非常成功！

今年垃圾特別多，有大量的建造及漁具廢物，以及數以萬計的發泡膠碎片。水底不僅有玻璃樽，膠樽，垃圾袋及廢罐，亦有甚多的棄置漁網及漁籠，以及被糾纏的海洋動物。無論多麽盡多少努力於清潔我們的海洋環境垃圾不斷回來，有必要確定並阻止正在破壞著我們海洋環境的垃圾來源。
 

其中收集了:

635粒膠樽瓶蓋
216支吸管
1300塑料袋或塑料食品包裝
596m廢棄繩索
182件漁網或網片，一些新的網絡檢索到高達20米。

全部數據卡可以按此下載：http://livingseas.hk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/CleanupData-19thOct2014.pdf

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What is obvious in Hong Kong is that no matter how much effort is put into cleaning our marine environment trash keeps coming back, there is a need to identify and stop the source of the rubbish that is plaguing our marine environment.

 To achieve this we strongly support the Hong Kong Cleanup  efforts to get accurate and complete data on what rubbish is found and we organised this event to assist in this campaign’s efforts, with volunteers divided into groups with roles of data collectors and rubbish collectors.

For this cleanup event  we returned to Bayside Beach, a location we have been to on many occasions.  The last cleanup we organised here was for World Ocean Day on 8th June this year.  Unfortunately this time what we found could be described as an environmental disaster with a huge amount of rubbish on the beach and in the water, much worse than our last visit.

The beach itself was covered in plastics of various kinds and one end of the beach was a snow storm of polystyrene.  There were two very large blocks, some kind of construction waste,  found which had broken up into literally millions of tiny pieces, uncountable and catastrophic.  Team got to work collecting and recording what was found.

The situation wasn’t much better for our diving groups, with a large amount of fishing nets, discarded ropes  and plastic bags smothering the coral areas in the bay.  Not a good situation.

Along with the collecting of the damaging debris, the divers were able to release entangled crabs and fish that were caught in newly discarded nets, some of the discarded nets were more that 20 metres long. Discarded nets are common in Hong Kong waters and are referred to as Ghost Nets, cleaning these nets and reducing the occurence is a huge issue. 

At the end of day of a tiring but satisfying day our group efforts were rewarded with a good accurate tally of data on what we found.

Here are some of the highlights

635 plastic bottle caps
216 straws
1300 plastic bags or plastic food wrappers
596 metres of discarded ropes
182 fishing nets or pieces of nets, some new nets retrieved of upto 20 metres.

Full data card can be downloaded. http://livingseas.hk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/CleanupData-19thOct2014.pdf

Living Seas Hong Kong is very grateful for the support of Wilfred Catering