Option 2: Request a Bin of Supplies **CLOSED** Long Beach Harbor Beach east of Comfort Station in Long Beach Jones Park Beach with the MS Aquarium in Gulfportġ0. Biloxi Beach Boardwalk at Comfort Station east of Sharkheads in Biloxiĩ. Deer Island with Twisted Tiki Tours *NEW* See information about the island site below. Front Beach Harbor end in Ocean SpringsĤ. Front Beach OS Yacht Club end in Oceans Springsģ. This event is a hot one! Please make sure you wear sun protection and bring water.Ģ. Bring friends and family to make it fun! Data collection is easier with extra helping hands. Volunteers that would like to participate in this morning event should register themselves/group for a cleanup site where they will meet with the Site Captain to get supplies in efforts to clean that beach area.
Much like our previous events, this event will take place at various cleanup locations across the Mississippi Coast. Option 1: Attend the Star-Spangled Cleanup event – Saturday, July 10th, 2021 from 8 AM to 10 AM Volunteers have two options this year to contribute to the Star-Spangled Cleanup – 1) Volunteers can register to participate in the event scheduled for Saturday, July 10th from 8 AM to 10 AM at various locations across the Mississippi coast 2) Volunteers can Request a Bin of Supplies they can use to cleanup wherever they choose throughout the week following Independence Day festivities to cleanup firework debris from our beaches. HUGE thank you to our sponsors for making this event possible!! With growing interest and donations from our wonderful sponsors, we hope to keep our wonderful beaches clean! See LINK.Our Star-Spangled C l e a n u p is an annual event that takes place the week after Independence Day on the beaches of the Mississippi Gulf Coast! This event started in 2017 on the beaches of Harrison, Jackson, and Hancock County. Data from the clean-up were submitted to the International Coastal Cleanup of The Ocean Conservancy. It was organized in partnership with Alliance members and partners including Bhaya Group, GreenHub, Live & Learn, and Coca-Cola Beverage Viet Nam Ltd. The third coastal clean-up was an activity of the USAID-funded Ha Long-Cat Ba Alliance. At the same time, more effort should be made to raise awareness of fishing communities and start to replace polystyrene with environmentally friendly materials. It is vital that Hai Phong, like Quang Ninh, bans the use of polystyrene in flotation devices. So action by Quang Ninh alone can’t solve the problem.Ĭat Hai District People’s Committee has a plan to reduce the number of floating farms to 150 by 2020 and ensure that these farms meet certain environmental standards to be allowed to operate. While Quang Ninh has acted to control polystyrene, floating farms in Lan Ha Bay continue to use polystyrene for buoyancy. Hang Trai area is on the boundary between Hai Phong and Quang Ninh and is adjacent to Lan Ha Bay in Cat Ba’s Cat Hai District. So why does the amount of polystyrenes keep increasing? This shows the strong commitment of the Ha Long City People’s Committee,” said Pham Dinh Huynh, Deputy Director of Ha Long Bay Management Board. 3,520 out of 4,141 buoyancies have used composite barrels instead of styrofoam.
Since the promulgation, 50% of individuals/households providing aquaculture and tourism services have replaced polystyrenes with sustainable materials. Currently, there are 55 floating structures in Ha Long Bay. “The Decision has been strictly enforced by the local authorities of Ha Long City. 349/TB-UBND banning the use of polystyrene in floating structures in Ha Long Bay. Nguyen Lan Huong, a volunteer and member of OceanSaver network.Īfter the first coastal clean-up, the Ha Long City People’s Committee issued Decision No. It has not declined but gotten even wrose,” said by Ms. “This is the third time I’ve participated in the coastal clean-up organised by IUCN and I am surprised with the huge amount of polysterenes.
Polystyrene, which disintegrates into tiny plastic pellets, made up 80% of the trash we collected, a proportion that has increased since the first two clean-ups in June 2016 and January 2017. With the enthusiastic participation of more than 100 volunteers, and despite heavy rain, 2.4 tons of trash was collected from 1.7 km of beach. On August 30-31, IUCN and partners organized the third coastal clean-up on four small islands in Hang Trai: Ang Du, Hai Cua, Cay Bang, and Hon Cua Kenh.