Italian Chamber of Commerce cleans up Lamma Island Just finished a fab clean up at Yung Shue Wan with a team from the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. All to help the Hong Kong Cleanup. What a lovely bunch of people, who tackled what looked at first glance like a clean beach, but […]
Read More »Singaporean International School with Liina Klaus We knew that engaging 80 school kids on the beach at Pak Kok might be a bit of a challenge. Previous experience had shown that some kids just don’t want to pick up trash even when you’re standing there holding a bag for them. Artist Liina Klaus showed a […]
Read More »Student reporters investigate the 42-day cleanup Young reporters from Bradbury School came to clean Yung Shue Wan beach and ask questions about the 42-day cleanup in autumn 2014.
Read More »Cleanup of Yung Shue Wan with Banyan House Bringing kids to the beach should not be all about rubbish, but equally, we cannot bring them up to ignore the problem. When I started cleaning the beach at Yung Shue Wan, I could hear mothers walking past with their kids telling them it was too dirty […]
Read More »Each year the summer tide brings rubbish from the Pearl River Delta to the southern and western shores of Lamma Island. During the winter tide, the rubbish comes directly from Hong Kong Island to hit the northern and western shores. This does not mean that the beaches are ever spared from incoming trash and, as well as […]
Read More »A small group of Lamma residents and government employees came out to clean up the beach at Pak Kok, Lamma Island. Among the usual plastic and other rubbish, we made a grim discovery: a dead egret surrounded by plastic debris and with plastic in its belly.
Read More »Cleanup at Pak Kok beach, Lamma Island with Sear Rogers International School (SRIS). The kids are great, but really they should not have to witness this rubbish! Before the cleanup, the kids were briefed on the outcome of the Brand on the Beach cleanups and asked to find ways to reduce their plastic consumption. When […]
Read More »Vita Water joins cleanup on beach where volunteers count plastic bottles HONG KONG 5 March 2014: For an entire year, volunteers collected and sorted waste found on beaches by brand label. 2872 plastic bottles were picked up and identified by brand, with the top 10 brands accounting for 55% of the bottles recovered. These brands […]
Read More »Brand on the Beach report to Government 36 adults, 12 kids and 4 dogs helped to remove 83 bags and boxes of trash from Pebbles Beach on north Lamma on Sunday 12th January 2014. 229 plastic bottles were picked up, 52 of which were from the Brand on the Beach winner, Vita Water, and 3 […]
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