Spontaneous Beach Cleaning Week [11-18 January]

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"Hi everyone, could you help spread the word that Spontaneous Beach Cleanings are supported island wide? Beach trash can be left in a roadside location by the beach where local village office trucks can collect it, and the local town hall can be informed after the fact (the resource centre can help with language support if required). I can confirm from personal experience that collection after spontaneous cleaning is not a problem for Onna Village, Nakijin village and Oku village. 

Tancha beach is in a really sad state after the stormy seas washing up lots of trash. In my 6 years at OIST, I have never seen it this bad before, and there are currently lumps of tar mixed in with the flotsam from oil spills. I would like to make OISTers aware that they can always pick up beach trash they find for collection wherever they are on island, no pre-organized events needed, especially regarding Tancha which is our neighboring community. Our neighbors in Tancha seem to be doing this little by little too, there is a lot of recently collected bags left near the car park at the bottom of the OIST hill. Onna Village office provides beach cleaning bags for free, but otherwise normal trash bags can be used if no other bags are available. And if no bags are handy, it's still very helpful to get the large floats that don't need/fit in bags off the beach (especially the polystyrene ones)."

The information, photo, and the text is provided by OIST Alumni Dr. Leilee Chojnacki who is visiting OIST now. The text was slighlty edited and photo was cropped.

OIST Beach Cleaning Club