Ecovision Team Results
People: 88 volunteers Pounds: 4114 Miles: 1.75
In addition to increased participation this year, the total amount of trash collected
and number of beaches cleaned has risen as well. Over the past 20 years, the
original 2,800 volunteers worldwide have grown to a cumulative total of 5.2 million.
From 1986 to 2004, the ICC has removed 100 million pounds of marine debris from
over 150,000 miles of shoreline, which is five times the circumference of the
globe.
Last year more than half a million people from over 100 countries around the
globe participated in the clean up, collecting close to 10 million pounds of
debris.
In Hong Kong, the number of participants rose from 439 in 1999 to 2,224 in 2004.
Last year we collected a cumulative total of 209,138 pounds of debris, and covered
86 miles of shoreline. |
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