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Being Responsible
at the Beach
Plan ahead and bring a trash bag with
you on your next trip. If you carry
it in, carry it out. If you take food
or beverages to the beach - please
keep your area of the beach clean.
Help Eliminate
Boating Waste
When you go boating, don’t empty
your waste into the water.
Always Clean
up after your Pets
Pet waste contains harmful bacteria
and organisms that can spread disease.
Pick up pet waste, seal it in a plastic
bag, and dispose of it in trash cans.
Don't hose waste into storm drains.
Help keep your neighborhood and your
pet healthy and clean.
Additional
Resources:
Clean
Beaches Council
www.cleanbeaches.org
The United States coast, where the
land and rivers meet the sea and great
waters, is a special, valuable and
complex place. Coastal recreation,
maritime commerce, and jobs such as
fishing make the coast a vital part
of the American way of life. While
progress has been made in recent years
to protect this great national resource,
the safety, health, and environmental
conditions of many areas continues
to deteriorate. Clean Beaches Council
was established to seek solutions
to these problems.
Oceana:
Protecting the World's Oceans
www.oceana.org
Oceana campaigns to protect and restore
the world’s oceans. Our teams
of marine scientists, economists,
lawyers and advocates win specific
and concrete policy changes to reduce
pollution and to prevent the irreversible
collapse of fish populations, marine
mammals and other sea life. Global
in scope and dedicated to conservation,
Oceana has campaigners based in North
America (Washington, DC; Juneau, AK;
Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA;
Portland, Oregon; the Mid-Atlantic
and New England), Europe (Madrid,
Spain; Brussels, Belgium) and South
America (Santiago, Chile). More than
200,000 members and e-activists in
over 150 countries have already joined
Oceana.
The
Ocean Conservancy: Advocates of wild,
healthy oceans.
www.oceanconservancy.org
The Ocean Conservancy promotes healthy
and diverse ocean ecosystems and opposes
practices that threaten ocean life
and human life. Through research,
education, and science-based advocacy,
The Ocean Conservancy informs, inspires,
and empowers people to speak and act
on behalf of the oceans. In all its
work, The Ocean Conservancy strives
to be the world's foremost advocate
for the oceans. |
