#river cleanup

[gpstudios]

Title: World Rivers Day: Celebrating and Protecting Our Vital Waterways

Celebrate World Rivers Day on September 22 by engaging in activities that protect and appreciate our vital waterways. Join cleanup efforts, support conservation organizations, and advocate for river protection.

Introduction World Rivers Day, observed annually on September 22, highlights the importance of rivers and their role in sustaining ecosystems, communities, and economies. This day aims to raise awareness about the challenges facing our rivers and encourage actions to protect and preserve these vital waterways. Join in the celebration by learning about local rivers, participating in cleanup…

[phuiscribbles]

Happy River City Girls 2 launch day!!

Had the pleasure in helping out with some cleanup animation for the game intro. Hope y’all enjoy the game!

[starrynightsforever]

It's just me and my brightly-colored, knee-high rubber rain boots that I've had since undergrad against the world.

[drs3x]

i wont lie im going to be incredibly sad if i dont get this job

[alliterative-endlessknot]

It’s #NationalRiverCleanupDay – so here’s our #TeamSeas video about cleaning up waterways.

[lacymoonchild]

[uovoc]

Man I didn't get out into the mountains much last year, why is that... (remembers that gas was $5 a gallon) oh yeah I forgot

[reasonsforhope]

@kilodelta Thanks for the addition, this is so true

LA isn't just deploying similar systems, it has literally officially teamed up with the Ocean Cleanup, using one of their river cleanup systems! To absolutely massive success

That article actually appears to be non-paywalled right now, but here's a guaranteed no-paywall Internet Archive copy just in case!

"After a historic winter hit California with dozens of atmospheric rivers, the last line of defense protecting the Pacific from much of L.A.’s trash held strong.

In the first storm season of a two-year pilot project, Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor 007 stopped nearly 155,000 pounds of garbage from flowing out to the ocean.

“Its performance has exceeded our wildest expectations,” said Boyan Slat, founder and chief executive of the Ocean Cleanup. The Dutch nonprofit partnered with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works to introduce the interceptor in October.

The system floats a few hundred yards from the outlet of Ballona Creek into the Pacific Ocean, its twin booms extended to the shoreline to funnel trash to a solar-powered system that lifts objects from the water with a conveyor belt and drops them into six dumpsters. The trash collects in the dumpsters and awaits manual removal...

In all, the first rainy season of the interceptor’s operation saw the collection of 77 tons of material, the vast majority of which went to landfill.

This first pilot year “had all the challenges we wanted it to have: heavy pollutants, lots of flow,” said Mark Pestrella, the Department of Public Works director. In January, storm-generated waves caused one boom to tear, and it had to be replaced.

According to Lee, L.A. County Department of Beaches and Harbors maintenance crews noted “a 75% reduction” in trash along local beaches adjacent to the interceptor."

-via Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2023

““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.

Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.

The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.

GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.

It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…

Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21

[westcoastmidnightrun]

CLEANING UP A CITY ISN'T EASY,

ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS PARIS

The French have trying to clean up their Seine river since 1990 … and failing at it. Now the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Centennial (100 years since their most recent hosting of the Games) are almost here and they are once more beating themselves up trying to make their fabled river swim worthy for the Decathlon competitions and Olympic swim events. They have been the laugh of the American news media, if you can read between the lines.

Meanwhile back in the USA, for the past decade, Hyperion and a host of sewage treatment facilities have been belching, spewing and pouring 100,000s even millions of gallons of untreated sewage in our Southern California beaches on an annual basis, forcing authorities to close off the beaches until the pollution fades away into the Pacific. From Malibu to Santa Monica, Redondo Beach, Long Beach and International Surfing Competitions Destination Huntington Beach, all have been hit for the past decade with closure due to sewage spills.

Catch the story and have yourself a laugh or two. On the House!

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[kbjones]

Fish for Garbage Project - Cover

The first of several illustrations for a children's activity book for Utah-based Fish for Garbage. #illustration #forkids #conservation #nature

I recently completed a project for Utah-based Fish for Garbage, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes communities through waterway cleanups and watershed education. They commissioned me to create a series of illustrations for a children’s activity book. This image, the only full-color illustration, was for the cover.

[wolfbirbisme]

gotta say, not being able to find an organization that does weekly litter cleanups within the city I just moved to after what I've seen this past week is a fucking crime

"we strive to maintain our waterways 😊" where are your events for the year. where are your cleanups. how do I sign up, how do I report the absolute landfill spots I've seen passing through a STATE PARK while on the commuter train.

granted it only recently got warm out but climate change might as well as be working in our favor because that means we can start cleaning NOW. LEMME AT IT GDI

[belpop]

Regarding the last post I could go on and on about this forever. Everything you eat in Europe has got colonialism all over it I'm sorry to say. Eating bananas and chocolate and coffee which yes, I do too, are all directly degrading ecosystems because of the way they are farmed in huge swathes, and personally cutting things out of your diet might make the tiniest difference but it won't do anything serious until the underlying mechanics of profit are dismantled. How green is your electric car or bike when the battery needed for it is comprised of precious metals people mine for in dangerous conditions for shit wages. And I FUCKING hate tourists going to islands paving over the nature and the local's lands then getting helicoptered out when it's all on fire. And if you don't understand how the colonial powers will do everything they can to maintain this skewed relationship to its (ex)colonies despite the consequences for the entire planet because it directly benefits them, you really should not be talking about saving the environment.

[alliterative-endlessknot]

It’s #NationalRiverCleanupDay – so here’s our #TeamSeas video about cleaning up waterways.