Cleanup Time!

We all hate seeing litter on our favourite beaches and shorelines. You can pitch in and do something about the mess during the annual Great Canadian Shore Cleanup September 15-23. Volunteers are invited to join this year’s 18th annual cleanup, sponsored by Vancouver Aquarium and World Wildlife Fund Canada. You can join an existing cleanup, or lead a new cleanup as site coordinator on a shoreline near you.

The aquarium has led cleanups since 1994, when volunteers swept a shoreline in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The program has operated nationally since 2002. Last year, 56,293 volunteers removed nearly 12,000 garbage bags of trash and debris, weighing nearly 144,000 kilograms, from 3,144 kilometres of shoreline across the country.

To register for cleanups throughout the Lower Mainland, the Sunshine Coast and Southern Vancouver Island, visit www.shorelinecleanup.ca/en/search/cleanups/fall2012.
 

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