Romelia Ocean Debris Research Project by Hayden Sloan
Channel: Refugio Nacional Mixto de vida Silvestre Romelia
Date: 2016-08-30

“For nearly three decades, volunteers with Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup® have picked up everything imaginable along the world’s shorelines: cigarette butts, food wrappers, abandoned fishing gear and even automobiles and kitchen appliances.

In 2015, more than 18 million pounds of trash was collected by nearly 800,000 volunteers during the International Coastal Cleanup.

The resulting item-by-item, location-by-location Ocean Trash Index that Ocean Conservancy compiles each year provides the only global snapshot of the marine debris littering coasts and waterways around the world.

We need your help to keep this momentum going. Join the world’s largest volunteer effort for our ocean!”

Refugio Romelia is participating this year through our research assistant [tag]Hayden Sloan! She has been conducting research about the quantities of plastic products that wash up on the beach. Check out some of the posters that describe her work!

Join us on 10 September as part of the International Coastal Cleanup to gather trash from Playa Grande. Bring sunscreen, water, and a poncho and let’s make the sea turtles welcome! If you can’t make it, please consider making a donation to help out our conservation efforts!

www.oceanconservancy.org/our-work/international-coastal-cleanup/clean-up-locations.html