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"The ocean has its own international day today, but one campaign is trying to
make sure the attention lasts longer than 24 hours.
For the first time, the King’s Baton Relay, the ceremonial journey that leads
into the Commonwealth Games, has been linked to the Commonwealth Clean Oceans
Plastics Campaign, a partnership between Commonwealth Sport and the Royal
Commonwealth Society.
Its target is practical and measurable: to stop one million pieces of plastic
entering Commonwealth waters before the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, which
take place from 23 July to 2 August.
The campaign has already passed the halfway mark. According to Commonwealth
Sport’s live tracker, more than 625,000 pieces of plastic have so far been
collected by communities along the relay route.
World Ocean Day, marked each year on 8 June, was first proposed at the 1992
Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and later formally recognised by the United
Nations. Its purpose is to celebrate the ocean’s role in human life and focus
attention on how it can be protected.
At West Kirby beach, Merseyside, in May, Team England’s leg of the campaign saw
25 people collect 21kg of rubbish, including 552 plastic items. Among them were
111 branded items from 56 different brands, a telling snapshot of how packaging
waste travels from shops, streets and bins to the shoreline."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
