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- 3. PROJECT AWARE The mainfocus of Project Aware is to clean up the oceans and bring awareness to what is in the oceans and what is happening with our oceans. This is a world wide movement that seeks to educate and inform people about marine debris. The Project mainly focuses on Dive Against Debris, an underwater cleanup and awareness movement, however, they also have a land component to help raise awareness for what is going into the water and will become surface and sea floor debris. Most people think that once it enters the water it is out of sight and out of mind but that is not the case. It will simply wash up somewhere or end up on the sea floor.
- 4. LAND DATA FORCLEAN-UPS Land data for the clean ups are submitted to the ocean conservancy website. This is where you record major things and the strangest finds!
- 7. DIRTIEST BEACH INHAWAII- KAMILO BEACH The combination of wind and currents make this the direst spot on Hawaii Island. @ Kamilo Beach
- 8. WHAT WE DID Abit of overview about why it is important We cleaned up a few beaches
- 9. RICHARDSON'S BEACH PARK We foundlots of wrappers and cigarette butts. The parking lot had less trash than we were expecting.
- 10. There were evenpeople cooking and leaving their trash while cooking.
- 11. BAY FRONT Tons oftrash….. It seemed that there was no end to the trash
- 12. AGAIN PARKING AREAS There wastons of trash that could have been prevented if people would just not throw it out of their cars.
- 13. EVEN CLOTHING There waslots of clothing and grease that we found.
- 14. THE TOP THREEITEMS OF LOCAL CONCERN Cigarette Butts Plastic Food Containers
- 15. TOP THREE ITEMSOF WORLD WIDE CONCERN ACCORDING TO PROJECT AWARE Cigarette Butts Candy Wrappers Plastic
- 16. CONNECTION TO SUSTAINABILITY In orderto become a more sustainable place to live, everyone will need to start taking small steps every time they go out to make less debris that will end up in the ocean. It is not a one day event, it is a lifestyle of not overlooking or assuming someone else will do it.
- 17. TECHNOLOGY MAKING THE DIFFERENCE Withthe advent of social media, it is easier to host clean ups and record data. There are even apps to record data and draw more attention to the ever growing problem of marine debris.
- 18. PROJECT AWARE COMMUNICATION The takehome message is that every time you go to the beach everyone should be cleaning up just a little. Lifestyle changes are where the major changes happen.
- 19. CHANGING CULTURES The goalof project is that through keeping beach clean ups simple and speeding the word of importance that everyone will change their culture to be a culture of prevention and constant action!
Editor's Notes
- #4 There are millions of divers who dive for Project Aware each year across the globe and even more that do shore clean ups. The goal of these clean ups is to not only clean up the beaches but to collect data on what is being found in the oceans. This ways the divers and community alike can help to avoid putting more in!
- #5 We did not find many strange items, more clothing than we were expecting.
- #7 This is a world wide movement to communicate and educate about what is going on in our oceans both above and below the surface. It is one of the few underwater marine debris data collection agencies.
- #8 This beach has clean-ups on it after just about every major storm and there is tons and tone of debris that has to be removed. Once while Calvin was cleaning up at the beach there were four underwater mornings that washed up from Japan. They traveled all the way to this beach. It is not just what is going to go in the ocean but what is already there coming back up on land and needing to be dealt with properly.
- #9 One of the things that we did was learn about how the information we are providing in these surveys is helping to create change on larger levels. The goal of project aware is that everyone does beach clean ups every time they go somewhere. It is not a once in a year event. This is every time you go somewhere it is a clean up effort, every little bit counts. If we only clean up when it is clean up day, what good does it do? Every time you go to the beach, it should be cleaner when you left than when you came.
- #15 On our clean ups we found, this varies a bit from the international cleanup
- #18 Communicating with social media and various tracking applications allows for the data to be recorded and used to help promote change at higher levels. It is also allowing us to these same social media and technology to bring awareness to how big the issue really is.
- #19 There is no one day that will fix the ocean, it is lifestyle changes and constant efforts that make large scale change truly possible.