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Cyclists!! We are targeting to clean up the shoreline along the Sunny Bay coastline and are looking for each of you to lend a helping hand for 15 to 30 minutes during your morning cycling.
Eco Marine is hosting a socially-distant bicycling cleanup on Sunday Feb 21, 2021 in Sunny Bay! Thank you Rapha Asia for sponsoring prizes for our volunteers! Join us for a chance to win a Rapha cap and musette set!
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 event 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.
Covid has turned every beautiful corner of Hong Kong into a local travel destination. We love seeing everyone fall in love with nature and enjoying the great outdoors! That said, many of us have failed to clean up after ourselves! After picnicking, camping or simply stopping to take a few pictures in many places in Hong Kong, we have left behind half eaten boxes of pizza, countless plastic drinks bottles, single use masks, plastic bags, tissues, straws, beer cans, beer coasters and the list goes on. This rubbish will eventually wash into the ocean during a storm, endangering marine life and polluting the waters.
Event:
Eco Marine staff will set up a cleaning station from 8:30am to 11:30am 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 from 8:30am to 11:30am to help us clean up a small portion of the coastline. Participants will conduct cleanup in groups of 1 or 2 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. Shout out to Rapha Asia for sponsoring the prizes. Check out their page and clubhouse in Sheung Wan!
Cleanup Point:
Dead end near Sunny Bay Salt Water Pumping Station https://goo.gl/maps/EWrVhQ2my4PTgBbJA
Contact:
Keilem (Tel/Whatsapp 63920336)
What to wear:
You can wear your usual cycling gear but if you use clip-in pedals, remember to bring your cycling shoe covers or a change of shoes to wear during the cleanup. The location is a flat paved area.
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 bring.
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.