What do you get when you cross 40 volunteers, 75 miles of beach and the most magical island in the world \u2026. Drop Bear Adventure\u2019s first annual beach clean-up!<\/p>\n
Now, don\u2019t get us wrong, we would LOVE it if we didn\u2019t have to clean up the beach but unfortunately, in this day and age, beach cleaning is a \u2018thing\u2019 that needs to be done. Our oceans are swamped with plastic, our landfill is overflowing with waste and yet we continue to produce increasing amounts of unrecyclable, indecomposable items that are filling up our planet.<\/p>\n
Yet\u2026one beautiful thing we can take out of beach cleaning events is the fact that it brings a bunch of like-minded individuals together that all have the same passion and love for the planet.<\/p>\n
Mumma Bear & the team have been super excited organising our first beach clean-up event and it couldn\u2019t have been a better weekend. From Drop Bear crew, independent travel agents, old friends and new friends; a total of 40 volunteers joined us to clean up 75 miles of beach on K\u2019gari \u2013 Fraser Island.<\/p>\n
In just over 4 hours we collected a staggering 408KG of waste which included over 2480 plastic bags, 500 plastic food packaging, 2122 bits of hard plastic, over 10,000 bits of microplastics, 109 beer bottles, 84 aluminium cans and just over 750 plastic bottle lids. As well as this there was plenty of washed up thongs, plastic bottles, lighters, straws, fishing remnants and rope. The list goes on & on!<\/p>\n
Anyone that has been to a beach clean event can admit how eye opening it really is when you see how much rubbish is out there polluting our land and sea. It\u2019s daunting and upsetting to see, however we can make a difference. The answer is not recycling, it\u2019s reducing. It\u2019s making a lifestyle change and refusing to buy items in plastic at the supermarket. It\u2019s about buying that keep cup so you can continue to have your morning coffee. It\u2019s about having access to lifelong bags so you don\u2019t have to make the decision of accepting a plastic carrier bag versus awkwardly carrying your items out of the shop! It\u2019s small changes that make a big difference in the end and we can, and we will all make a difference to protect our planet for years to come.<\/p>\n
Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for our first beach clean-up event. We can\u2019t express how much we appreciate you taking the time out of your busy work\/life schedules to come help us keep K\u2019gari clean.<\/p>\n
Keep ya eyes peeled for our next Beach Clean-up events coming in 2019!!<\/p>\n
Full testimonials below \u2013<\/p>\n