Here are a few images of our collaboration! Our amazing volunteers as usual rocking it hard to collect, classify, wash and weigh recyclable materials.

This year For the Planet is supporting our organizations’ efforts to remove waste from coastal communities of Colombia and implement recycling systems in remote areas that do not have landfills and that the only way to get rid of is by burning and burying the trash in those fragile ecosystems.

In the first trimester of this year, we already removed 7 tons of plastic glass, metals, styrofoam, and flip flops.

We are extremely grateful to For the Planet for supporting our foundation’s team, our local Beach Rangers, and our formidable volunteers that make it all happen!

We will be organizing some more beach clean-up adventures with our group of Formidables in the Caribbean, Atlantic, and pacífic Coasts of Colombia,  and we really hope You can join us!

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The secretary of Tourism of Valle del Cauca had the initiative to improve tourism in the beautiful beach town, “LA BOCANA”; making a day of murals to beautify a section of the beach.  Located just 20 minutes from Buenaventura; this town has been victim of the devastating plastic pollution that comes from different parts of the city, port and touristic peer.

All though we worked really hard for 2 days, you could not see the difference on the beach! The beach was mostly cover by styrofoam. So, we decided to focus on one little spot to leave it completely clean. Took us 4 hours! with the next tide, this little spot was full of trash again!

20 artists from Santiago of Cali, painted the facades with beautiful designs and murals that brought the town back to live! The secretary asked Ecopazifico to do the beach clean up to welcome volunteers, artists and government officials that came for this event.

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For the international coastal clean up day with OCEAN CONSERVANCY; we manage to collect over 3 tons of trash from the beaches of Juanchaco, Ladrilleros, and La Barra, Colombia with the help of over 120 volunteers.

Real data of waste trash collected on the beach clean up day:  ECOPAZIFICO Beach Clean up Data Sept 18 2018.

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• Plastic Waste 797.51 Kgs (46%)
• Glass Waste 442.72 Kgs (26%)
• Metal Waste 23.1 Kgs (1%)
• Other 456.64 Kgs (27%)

4Ocean is a company dedicated to do beach clean ups in Florida, Bali, Haiti, and recently joined our efforts in Colombia; together with FoKus Green sustainable fashion company from Medellin and Amigos del Mar foundation  from Cartagena, we organized an weekend clean up in collaboration with 4Ocean. With the help of the National Army and Navy of Colombia,  we could remove 11 tons of trash from the beaches of Juan de Dios, Juanchaco and Ladrilleros.

El pasado 19-20 de Mayo se realizó una gran jornada de limpieza en las playas de Juanchaco, ladrilleros y la barra en el corazón del PARQUE NACIONAL NATURAL URAMBA.

Más de 100 voluntarios provenientes de todas partes de Colombia, en tan solo un día recogieron y clasificaron aproximadamente 2 toneladas de botellas, icopor, chanclas, tapas, metal, vidrio y plástico quebrado de todos los tamaños y colores a los que ellos llaman MAPARE “Material Para Revivir”.

También se lograron sacar varias toneladas de la playa de Juan de Dios, quienes llevan años manteniendo la playa limpia, y acumulándola en costales esperando el gran momento en el que se pudo finalmente gestionar el anclaje del LCU para esta operación; en Buenaventura los esperaron la Asociación de Recicladores de Buenaventura para llevarse todo el material reciclable y la BMA Buenaventura Medio Ambiente, para llevarse lo no reciclable al relleno.

Real data of waste trash collected on the beach clean up day: ECOPAZIFICO Beach Clean up Data May 18 2018.

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For this international coastal clean up day, over 100 national and international volunteers gathered in the beach of Juanchaco to collect over 2 tons of trash. Our most found material was STYROFOAM. Wwe really don’t like people that still produce, and consume styrofoam. We had the support of the collective “El Fabriclaje” a collective dedicate to transform trash into toys and playful instruments. The fabriclaje also made a pelican out of 100% Mapare collected during the beach clean up!

Step by Step Volunteers!

You can see the clean up day album in our Facebook Page!

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Our first collaboration with Ocean Conservancy was in september of 2016.

This year our first permaculture action week program was develop, synchronized with the international coastal clean up day of Ocean Consevancy.

From monday to friday the school kids, took part of our program; saw presentations, videos, and did creative activities to learn about global issues and how to see respond to those issues in their local town and every day life. link del programa de permacultura.

The clean up happened on Saturday where we collected 3 tons of all types of trash from the beach with the help of 83 volunteers. On Sunday a bottle lid mural was created with kids and local leaders to finalize the week!

You can see the pics in our Facebook page!

Link to ICC with Ocean Conservancy:

https://oceanconservancy.org/trash-free-seas/international-coastal-cleanup/

Real data of waste trash collected on the beach clean up day: ECOPAZIFICO Beach Clean up Data Sept 17 2016 waste data.

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