Help clean up Toti
NATIONAL Clean-up Week is from 16 to 21 September and the Upper South Coast branch of the Wildlife and Environment Society of SA (WESSA) encourages the public to join in the event.
On Saturday, 21 September which is International Coastal Clean-up Day, WESSA will be involved in a clean-up along the Toti promenade, the dunes adjacent to the canoe club, alongside the Toti Lagoon and Beach Road, from the lagoon to Shad Place.
“We urge residents to join us,” said Colleen Gill of Wessa.
International Coastal Clean-up is one of the biggest volunteer efforts for ocean health when thousands of South Africans join volunteers around the world to clean-up beaches. Marine debris is threatening the seas. Discarded litter in the water can impact human health, sharp objects can cut beachgoers; batteries and chemical drums may leak toxic compounds. Debris also threatens wildlife, a whale can drown when entangled in old ropes or fishing nets. Fish, birds and animals eat litter, which they mistake for food.
During the 2012 clean-up volunteers picked up more than 4,536 tons of waste along the world’s shorelines.
