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Kamilo Point community cleanup event
January 21, 2017 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Mahalo for your interest in getting involved!
This is a collaborative cleanup event with the board of the Surfrider Foundation Hilo Chapter. Cleanup event will run from ~ 8:45AM – 3:45PM and 4WD vehicles are required to access the remote cleanup site.
We have space for some volunteers but please RSVP early to ensure a spot. YOU MUST send us an email to us at kahakai.cleanups@gmail.com to hold a spot in one of our rides, or call / text 808-769-7629 for more info (no RSVPs here please!)
To date, HWF and 4,000+ volunteers have removed over 211 metric tons (465,000 lbs!!!) of marine debris from the shores of Hawai'i nei (Hawai'i Island, Maui, Midway and the French Frigate Shoals) since 1996. Of those, 202 metric tons alone were removed from HAWAI'I ISLAND since 2003. We couldn't have accomplished all this with out all our beloved volunteers!
Can't make this event? No worries, join our mailing list (http://eepurl.com/b0Axvj) and do your part every day by opting out of S.U.P. (single-use plastics) … and spread the word!
Plastic pollution is threatening our native wildlife and we each can do something about it by reducing our dependence on single-use plastics, refusing products with excess plastic packaging, putting pressure on our representatives to support legislation to reduce single-use plastics like shopping bags, foam to-go ware containers, plastic water bottles, etc, and help on a daily basis by picking up litter around you (check out the Litterati app!).
This cleanup is partially funded by an award from the NOAA Marine Debris Program. If you'd like to make a donation to support such removal and prevention activities, please check out our website at http://www.wildhawaii.org/
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