Cleanup Diary: 7 November 2016
Thank you to staff from Hong Kong Football Club for joining a Pak Kok beach cleanup.
Read More »Thank you to staff from Hong Kong Football Club for joining a Pak Kok beach cleanup.
Read More »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 »Cleaning up at Yung Shue Wan with The Harbour School.
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 »For 42 days in 2014 Living Lamma and numerous volunteers spent a few hours each day picking up rubbish, trash, garbage and all kinds of waste from Yung Shue Wan harbourfront, to restore some of the beauty of this “bay of banyan trees” 21 September – 2 November 2014 North Lamma Community Effort […]
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.
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