Update: Thanks to everyone who came out today (Sept. 25th). We picked up about 5 trashbags full of litter on Second Beach, and had about 50 in attendance. One team found two entangled live seabirds. Thanks so much for all your hard work in making our shorelines cleaner!
Cleanup Collection:
55-gallon drum: 1
Aluminum foil: 3
Appliances: 2
Bag of dog poop: 2
Balloons: 7
Bandages/bandaids: 5
Batteries: 1
BBQ rack: 1
Beverage cans: 18
Brush: 1
Building materials: 6
Buoys/floats: 1
Camera lens: 1
Caps, lids: 57
Cigar tips: 3
Cigarette butts: 468
Condoms: 2
Cork: 1
Cothing/shoes: 12
Crab/lobster/fish traps: 3
Diapers: 1
Disposable plates, cups, utensils: 20
Elastic: 2
Food wrappers and containers: 173
Food: 2
Glass beverage bottles: 10
Glass pieces: 95
Gum: 10
Hair tie: 3
Matches: 21
Newspaper: 1
Paint chips: 1
Paper bags: 4
Paper clip: 2
Paper pieces: 58
Pen cap: 1
Pieces of plastic: 18
Plastic bags: 17
Plastic beverage bottles: 15
Plastic sheeting/tarps: 13
Pull tabs: 20
Purse with IDs: 1
Rope: 1
Saline bottle: 1
Sleeping bag: 1
Scrap metal: 1
Strapping bands: 2
Straws, stirrers: 23
Styrofoam pieces: 43
Syringes: 1
Tampons: 1
Tealight/candle: 2
Tent poles: 1
Tobacco packaging: 7
Toys: 6
This year’s World Rivers Day celebration of the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is Fraser Riverkeeper’s 3rd annual beach restoration with TD. This year we will be cleaning up Stanley Park Second Beach between Lagoon Drive and Park Lane. Our cleanup will begin at 9:30 a.m. on September 25th. Meet us at the beach area between the pool and the playground.
Please dress for weather and terrain, and if you have them, bring your own trash bags and gloves (though some will be provided). Everyone will need to sign a TD waiver, and work in teams. Beach cleaners will help to fill out forms showing what sort of waste they pick up. In the event that the beach is clean before noon, we can work inland toward the park.
The TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is one of the largest conservation initiatives of the Vancouver Aquarium. What started in 1994 as a small beach cleanup conducted by a handful of Vancouver Aquarium employees has now grown into the second largest cleanup in the world.
Last year alone, over 63,000 Canadians registered for the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, and in only one week participants removed 135,467 kg of litter from 1,280 shorelines.
World Rivers Day, also known as BC Rivers Day, is a province-wide event, held every year on the last Sunday in September. Established in 1980 and coordinated by the Outdoor Recreation Council (ORC), it has been proclaimed by communities across BC and attracts over 75,000 people to more than 100 events each year. The success of this event in BC has also recently led to the establishment of a “National Rivers Day” — and as part of the UN Water for Life Decade starting in 2005, a new “World Rivers Day” is celebrated each September.
We will be announcing the winners of Jack Johnson tickets at our TD Cleanup on September 25th, right before the end of the morning. Our raffle tickets are sold all summer, starting with Paddlefest on June 20th.
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