Beach Clean-up

This weekend I participated in the beach cleanup effort by Seven Clean Seas. It's a young organisation, just a year old, with the aim of reducing the waste in our seas. Now it's turtle hatching season here in Singapore, and the poor turtles have trouble climbing up to the beaches with all the plastic garbage.

The turnout was great, I don't know how many people but must've been in the hundreds.

We split to four groups and went to different beaches. It's quite shocking really how much garbage there end up at the shores of the clean Singapore. Here's a before picture of the beach where I ended up:

With so many people, the cleanup was quick, took a bit over two hours. Here's the after photo:

Overall, a lorry-load of garbage was collected, estimated to be up to 3000 kg! 😲