Date started: December 2016
Purpose of group: Since 2016, Plastic Solution for Our Beaches has provided platforms, learning opportunities, and spaces for young people across the motu and internationally to make positive environmental change… And we’re only just getting started! As a registered New Zealand charity (Plastic Solution Charitable Trust), we plan and deliver by-youth for-youth events. Our mission is to combine science and art to assist empower young people to solve environmental challenges.
About the group: P.S. Our Beaches is driven by E Wen Wong and Nina Ose, two Burnside High School students with a passion for ocean advocacy. Recently, we embarked on a project to clean up Canterbury beaches, with ‘P.S. Our Beaches’ being the end result.
P.S. Our Beaches is a mix between a community organisation and social movement, aimed at reducing litter and pollution in our surrounding area’s beaches. Through the means of scheduled clean-ups, events, posters and social media, we are really dedicated to natural conservation and leaving a positive environmental footprint on our beaches.
We recently visited New Brighton beach for a clean-up and audit of litter in the area. Now, we are looking at expanding our community group to enable us to schedule a large scale clean-up to kick off 2017, which has the potential to really make a difference.
Find out more: www.psbeaches.com and www.enviropast.com
Name of contact person: E Wen Wong & Nina Ose
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