The (free!) Trash Bag Clean Up Challenge - take part!

The message we received at our beach cleanup this week was stark - that everyday trash is a toxic environmental plague that affects all living species, not just humans.

Here's a quick slideshow presentation I prepared.

Standing at the edge of Shek O Beach, you would think that it's a very clean beach. But walk 20 metres in either direction of the beach and look a little more intently at the sandy surface, you will start to observe the trash broken down into smaller parts. Lots of them, scattered across the entire beach. When you're relaxing at the beach for a few hours, it's something you probably don't pay much attention to. But if you head towards the edge of the bay, towards the rock formations and a drainage channel running from the adjacent mountain and out to the sea, you see the horrors of what discarded trash can do.

It's not just the random underwear, beach toys, fishing gear, needles, plastic forks and spoons, takeaway boxes and bottle tops we bagged up, but styrofoam, cigarette butts and plastics, and lots of it, broken down into tiny pieces and scattered all over the beach.

I hope this short slideshow presentation will give my business network food for thought, and to consider a beach clean up as their next team outing.