A recent report from the Ocean Conservancy shows that volunteers around the world collected 6 million tons of beach debris in a single day. Wired.com has the full report and some downloadable spreadsheets for data geeks.
Posts Tagged ‘clean-up’
Global Beach Debris Report
Saturday, April 19, 2008Ken Noguchi and mountain trash
Monday, May 28, 2007
Japanese mountaineer Ken Nagouchi leads clean-up climbs of Mt. Everest. The latest such trip yielded 1,100 pounds of trash discarded by expidetioners along the way to legendary heights.
For more on the project, check out this Time Asia profile (photo from Time.com);
Or this conversation with marine ecologist and longtime resident of Japan, Jack Moyer.
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