Welcome to Spring and our chance to showcase our community’s stunning natural assets as we host the 2022 UCI Road World Championships.
Day one of the event, Saturday, September 17th happens to coincide with World Clean Up Day. I invite our readers to join Surfrider South Coast for our Spring Cleanup at Sharky Beach in Coledale on Saturday, 17th September at 9am. Bring your gloves, friends, family, and your dogs!
The 2022 UCI Road World Championships means thirsty cyclists and spectators. And the correct way to recycle all of the used plastic bottles and aluminium cans responsibly is back into the Container Deposit Scheme rather than just throwing them into the household yellow recycle bins. Let your drink cans and bottles be recycled to do good for the planet, and either donate the 10 cents refund to charities like CitizenBlue, Scouts, your local surf club, or take them to a TOMRA recycling station; a CitizenBlue bin is located at Planet Childcare in Coledale. Please don’t throw eligible beverage containers into the yellow bin or worse, into regular (red lid) garbage bins as it’s a waste of resources and an extra load on landfill.
If you see an accumulation of garbage anywhere then I urge you to download the Snap Send Solve app. It’s so easy and effective! All you have to do is to snap a photo on your phone, the app has geolocation so it’s easy to use and informs councils of exactly where the problem is.
Waste is becoming a huge problem worldwide. We can make a conscious decision to stop buying plastic because it’s literally garbage. Each plastic item we purchase will foul up the earth for generations to come. It’s the unseen things hidden in plain sight that are pervasive and causing damage too. I’m talking about the polystyrene foam balls and micro plastics washing up on our shores, the sunken plastics on the seabed, the microfibres releasing from each laundry wash, and the tyre dust from our cars washing down the drains after rains. The ocean is spewing out the garbage that we feed it. Governments are realising that plastics are a part of the climate change puzzle.
Our thinking, our global intentions and especially our global actions must consider what benefits nature, so that we leave a positive and regenerative footprint for the next generation.
The ship sails where the captain steers so if you want a cleaner, greener planet then it’s up to all of us to do our bit.
See you at Sharky’s on the 17th!
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