May 19 Working Holiday: Bring the Trash Back
How long has it been since you last saw the pristine, unblemished ocean and beach of your memories or your photographs?
All kinds of man-made trash distributed along the high tide line
blocks the distance between us and the sea
The trash drifting on the surface of the sea along the tide line
proves
that every one of us should take responsibility for ”the ocean has already been polluted”
Come join us!
Before the trash is broken down into fragments by ultraviolet light and possibly drifts into the open ocean to stew into a ‘plastic soup’
let us bring the trash back
- Organizer: Kuroshio Ocean Education Foundation
- Supervising agency: Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan
- Co-organizer: Turumoan Whale Watching Company
- Event time: 5/19 (Sat), on the eve of International Day for Biological Diversity
- Who can join: Earthlings who will personally take action to keep the ocean clean
- Event locations: Hualien River mouth, Hualien landfill, Pacific Ocean
- Event fee: 200 yuan (includes: bus fare, instructor fee, fishing harbor lunch, boat fare, insurance)
- Number of participants: 80
Event itinerary:
7:40-7:50 Meet at Hualien Railway Station - 8:00 Take the tour bus to the Hualien River mouth - 8:30 Beach cleanup and marine debris monitoring - 10:30 Take the tour bus to the landfill - 12:00 Lunch at the fishing harbor - 13:00 Look for trash on the sea surface and view the coastal landfill from the sea - 15:00 Marine debris lecture and discussion - 15:30 Take the bus to Hualien Railway Station - 16:00 Disband at Hualien Railway Station
How to register:
- Register by e-mail or fax. Please download the event registration form, fill it out, and send it back to Kuroshio.
- Accepted participants will be notified by e-mail. Accepted participants should pay the fee by bank transfer within two days to secure their registration.
- If the procedures are not completed by the deadline, the place will regrettably not be reserved. Thank you for your understanding.