Submitted by the Brand on the Beach cleanup organisers:

Hi all,

Having begun a monthly beach clean at Pak Kok in December last year, we are creating a wave of interest from the public and the Govt who are now organizing their own SHORELINES CLEAN UP for HK!!! A huge thanks to you all for helping thus far! We would love you to continue if you can or join us if you have not done so already.

Details are below and do please share with friends. Bring lots of water to drink in a THERMOS or reusable container and snacks, food sunscreen, hats. We will have gloves and bags.

Get there on the 9.15 Pak Kok ferry from YSW and we will walk over to the beach together or call me for more directions.

This is a great family activity and feels good to do!

Details below are for your info and for forwarding to colleagues and friends.

Many Thanks,
Roz Keep - Vice Chair, Living Lamma - 9348 8726<HR>
Beach Clean Sunday at Pebbles Beach, Pak Kok .
9-12 all welcome.

Brand On The Beach, and many other campaigns have spurred the Govt to create their own clean up HK Shorelines event. From now until end of this year create a group, choose a beach and let them and us know.
Already many groups will take part, including our wonderful Lamma Paddlers on Saturday, Living Lamma, Canadian International School students, Lantau and Cheung Chau, Sheko groups etc.

Please see below for more;

五月二十五南島清潔日
The Great Lamma Clean Up begins on 25th May 2013

- pick your team 選擇隊伍
- pick your location 選擇地點
- pick your time 選擇時間

Register with Barry Kwok on blhkwok@fehd.gov.hk or tel: 2852 3643/ 6283 9593. He is co-ordinating the teams and will help arrange bags and gloves for your team.
參加隊伍如需要手套或膠袋，請聯絡郭先生，電郵 ：blhkwok@fehd.gov.hk 或致電28523643／6283 9593

Awards for垃圾大獎

1. The Most Unusual Item Found
1. 最特別發現獎
2. The Wackiest Clean Up
2. 最古怪發現獎
3. The Most Creative Clean Up
3 . 最具創意獎
4. The Biggest Clean Up
4. 最大體積獎
5. The "Thank God Someone Has
Finally Picked That Up" Clean Up
5. 終於有人清理獎

Watch our for further announcements.
敬請留意最新消息

Beach cleanup newsletter

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Postponed to Sun, Jan 12, due to heavy rain last Sunday. Same details.

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Brand on the Beach follow up from Sun, Jan 12:

1) Apple Daily Report

2) The Housenews Report

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TVB Pearl Report tonight at 8pm about plastic pollution, featuring The Lady in the Pink Hat (and Pink Plastic Gloves) and Living Lamma being interviewed on Pebbles Beach in Pak Kok recently. Preview video:

Plastic Plague (Preview)

"Plastic products proliferate in fast-paced Hong Kong where convenience is paramount. But they can wreak havoc on the environment. The sorry sight of plastic-plagued beaches has prompted concerned citizens to take matters into their own hands.

Reporter: Yvonne Lou"

It'll be available to view online afterwards on the TVB website:
http://programme.tvb.com/news/pearlreport/episode/20140217/

Some of my own photos taken during the interviews:

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Brand on the Beach featured in TVB Pearl Report, cleaning up Pebbles Beach in Pak Kok.
Starts 16 minutes into the video, for 2.5 minutes:

http://mytv.tvb.com/news/pearlreport/171826#page-1

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Some Bradbury School students will be joining in tomorrow's Brand on the Beach cleanup!

Living Lamma newsletter:

"...this time we will have representatives from our no.1 Brand on the Beach, Vita, as well as government employees from District Office, the Environmental Protection Department and the Food Environmental and Hygiene Department to help with the clean up and see what it's all about."

Plus a great fun music video by The Harbour School HK:

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Video by Siuyu Yeung of the GreenLammaGroup綠南丫小組 about yesterday's Brand on the beach cleanup on Pebbles Beach in Pak Kok Village:



Plus a photo gallery of an earlier cleanup on the same beach:

12/1/2014 - Beach clean up Pak Kok - Living Lamma

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Email newsletter from Living Lamma:

Brand on the Beach thanks you!

Thank you Vita, thank you EPD, thank you FEHD, thank you District Office, thank you kids, thank you parents, thank you everyone!!

Last Sunday 2nd March was an historical moment for Brand on the Beach. Our leading brand (by number of plastic bottles we picked up from the beach last year) Vita sent 3 representatives to help with the clean up, one of whom got off a plane from Malaysia that morning to be with us, thus winning the prize for dedication in travelling the furthest distance to participate in a clean up.

We were also joined by staff of the fabulous Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. If you haven't noticed these are the people who work relentlessly to try to keep our environment clean (say hello and thank them next time you see them - they do such a good job in often difficult circumstances). Supervisors Terrific Terrance, Handsome Anson and the wonderful Mr. Wong brought along 3 staff. Amy from EPD gave up her Sunday morning for a second time to come and help and we were very happy to see Joe from District Office. We so appreciate you all coming!

Special mention should also be made to Layla, a year 5 student at Bradbury, who designed a poster for her school's newsletter to advertise the clean up. But thanks to all the kids, their parents and other residents that came along.

We hope that all participants will take the experience back into their workplaces and schools and share it with their friends and colleagues, encourage others to come along next time and think about creative ways that we can all work together to stem the flow of trash that is ending up on our beach. The amount of plastic is particularly alarming.

No-one can change this, but everybody can. We hope that this year's Brand on the Beach will inspire efforts with government, business and community working together to change habits that will last for lifetimes.

Some Useful Links:

Sit back and watch, then like and share…..
- Clean Up Sunday 2 March. Thank you Siu Yu!
- The Pearl Report: Part 1 and Part 2 (including Brand on the Beach). Thank you Yvonne Lou and team!

- CleanUp Sunday 12 January. Thank you Siu Yu again!

- The First Brand on the Beach December 2012. Thank you Vicky and Andre!

And read Beach Party, the story of Brand on the Beach which won the prize for most creative entry in the SCMP/RTHK short story competition 2013. The account of what was found at the beach during the year is entirely true, but has to be seen to be believed!

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Hi Guys

Did somebody think before about doing the beach cleanup but from under the water? I just did a short snorkel yesterday on the small beach behind the pavilion (behind the library) and I was shocked with the amount of rubbish there. I have attached some picture with what I managed to find within 30min. Still a lot left behind.

As I am a diver, I was thinking of making few dives around key Lamma beaches and clean the bottoms. Anybody care to join?

I have 2 complete sets of diving gear, what we need is to arrange tanks (most likely from Sai Kung).

Let me know if you are interested,

Chris

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I posted a link to the video a couple of weeks ago when it was broadcast.
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15254

Living Lamma newsletter:

"Brand on the Beach is back, as Hong Kong Clean Up starts again!!!

Living Lamma's Marathon:
We don't do running, but we will be cleaning up the beach at Yung Shue Wan every day for 42 days for the entire period of the Hong Kong Clean Up!!"

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More about the 42-day Yung Shue Wan Harbour beach cleanup by Living Lamma and volunteers, starting last Sunday:
https://www.facebook.com/LivingLamma?fref=nf

Plus a great video filmed on location last Sunday. See some of our non-Chin. Lamma Celebrities (try to) speak Cantonese:



Living Lamma Hong Kong Clean Up Marathon －1st Day - 21/9/2014
by Panda Cantonese Academy

南丫島榕樹灣 Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island
好多垃圾，執唔晒，快Ｄ嚟幫手！
A lot of rubbish. It is very hard to clean up. Please come to help as soon as possible!
(contact us: pandacantonese@gmail.com)

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Have the YSW Harbour Beach Cleanup and Bear Camp joined forced? See Doctor URSO the Bear, recent Lammaite of the Day, join in the fun on the beach yesterday below.

Should we call it the Bear Camp Beach Cleanup? After "Brand on the Beach" and "Beauty on the Beach", maybe they should call it "Brawn on the Beach"?

Quoting from the Living Lamma Facebook group

"DAY 5 of the YSW clean up marathon - oh happy day. It was like a fairy tale (Beauty and the Beach?) Big man, big muscles, large spade and particularly nasty spiky metal thing removed. LIKE!!!!"

"Here it is, the horrid metal spikey thing, being pulled, then dug, then pulled, then dug again and pulled... And out it came!! Well done Justin. We'll be down again!"

Join in, just show up at YSW Harbour beach at low tide in the morning or afternoon, help out and get brawny like Doctor URSO!

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