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ICC Beach Clean Up Week in Israel - Sep 2010
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CleanUp Israel have joined forces with Hof-Naki (Israel
Ministry of Environmental Protection) & Ruach-Tova, to
execute Ocean Conservancy’s ICC operation in Israel.
Here in Israel, it was decided that this year’s 25th
anniversary of the operation would be extended to the
whole period of Sukot holiday to allow as many volunteers
as possible.
In more than 30 individual Beach Clean Up operations, from
Nahariya in the North to Eilat In the South, the number of
volunteers participating in beach clean ups was reached, and
exceeded the target of 2500!!
Residents, Pupils soldiers and overseas volunteers have
participated in this huge clean up event, which was a great
success; tons of rubbish was collected.
A small yet visible difference to the environment, yet a big
difference in the volunteers’ mind-set.
The individual operations were initiated by schools, by local
authorities, youth groups and individual volunteers.
All groups were all assigned a guide, an environmental
volunteer with Hof Naki, who co-ordinated each operation
on the day; they would meet on arrival for a brief and
explanation regarding nature preservation, then distributed
bags/hats/gloves etc and coordinated the removal of the
collected waste by the local authority.
The volunteers were asked to fill a questionnaire regarding
the waste found.
The information collected is used to build a global database
of marine debris.
The report "Trash Travels" which is based on the cleaning
operations provides a roadmap for reducing marine debris,
reducing the source, modify the behaviour that leads to the
formation and taking actions and policies to better prevent
it.
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