CLEAN REWARDS

Earth Day Clean Up At Old A's

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:45:16 -0700

Beach Clean Up on Earth Day at Old Airport in beautiful Kailua-Kona!

Aloha!

Mahalo to everyone who came out to help clean up on Earth Day wherever that may have been!! CLEAN Rewards had a great turn out on at Old Airport here in Kailua-Kona with support from local vendors to reward those who help clean up our beautiful plant!

Ola Brew Co. and Magic Beach Grill were supporting the cause by giving discounts to participants of the clean up. together we remove over 100 lbs of an assortment of cigarette butts, bottle caps, candy wrappers, HI-5, single use plastic, ocean debris, even hypodermic needles, meth pipes, and diapers, among many other things. It is sad to see that this beach is always in need of cleaning between local litter and ocean trash.

Also a out there cleaning the beach with us on Earth Day was Kona Brew Co. Together we helped make this beautiful beach a little cleaner and safer for everyone visiting.

When will our addition to plastic stop? Will we change before it's too late? What will be left for future generations?

Thanks to the participants of CLEAN Rewards Old A's beach clean up:

Brittany Claveran, Lee & Lynn Carlson, Laura Umpeire, Lisa Blech, Rachelle & Quintin Decker, Marcie Eynon, Morten Larsen, Susie Jason, Gabby Hensiuel, Taryn Wagner, Ryanne Kelso, Dustin Derrick, Jan Roberts, Arica L. Ogren, Leah Winkler, Jessica Rogers, Stephanie Davis, Geronimo, Daniel Christiansen, Marketa Murray, Ronan Murray, Sharon Seban, Natalie Jocane, Boce Cubitt and Tatiana Zimmer!

Some pictures from our clean up below:

Kailua Pier Clean Up

Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:10:35 -0700

Kailua Pier Clean Up

Mahalo everyone!😎🤙🏽

Kailua Pier Cleaning was a great success!!

Together we removed well over 50lbs of rubbish, countless cigarette butts and other litter from the Pier, beach, surround areas and we had 4 people diving for trash who removed 4 large bags, one bag was emptied and organized, picture of this and more below...

Thank you to Body Glove Cruises for bringing pizza and drinks for everyone!

Thanks to everyone who came out to help:

Franky Biebel, Daniel Christensen, Micheal, Trey, & Kawaiola Tabil, Rachelle Rodriguez, Quintin Decker, Xander Nagasawa, Jennifer Mack, Ryan Brooks, Rich Stainton, Peter Schwartzman, Tricia Zelainy, Andrew Clark, Jon Ballenger, Mickey Myers, Adam Brem, Alex & Lynne Siqueiros, Glenn Bregman, Robin Rosen, Dustin Derrick, Elise Johnson, Jade Titus, Angelica Basaldua, and anyone else who came down to help clean up the Pier! Without you this would not be possible!

#earthFirstHawaii #bodyglove #workingtogether #mahalo #bigislandlove #weeklycleaningprojects #divingfortrash

Kamilo Beach Coastline Trash Removal

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:28:42 -0800

Kamilo Beach Coastline Trash Removal

Aloha, and mahalo for reading!

If you are unaware there are 5 gyres on this planet that currently hold an unbelievable amount of plastic, breaking them down into smaller and smaller pieces until they are microscopic and in some areas of the ocean outnumber plankton 1000 to 1 and that study was from over a year ago. Plastic never "goes away", so we should all stop using singles use plastics and fight for change in the production of products, packaging and transition into a more sustainable society. If we don't we are looking at more plastic in our oceans than fish by 2050 and that is something that non of us want.

Here on the Big Island of Hawaii we are collecting plastic on beaches from ocean currents all around the island, even in some of the most remote and hard to reach locations. Hawaii is now in the outer zone of the Great NW Garbage Patch made up mostly of plastics. On the southern part of the Island of Hawaii is Kamilo Beach and an area of coastline where tons and tons of plastic has and continues to wash up. It is heartbreaking to see first hand all the plastic and know how beautiful and clean this area once was. We all should to start by cleaning our areas, recycling and reusing what is already made and put a stop the production of a product could kill us all in a seeable future..

Here in Hawaii some of us are working together to clean up what we can, spread awareness and get more people involved in the solution; earthFirst Hawaii has been holding cleaning projects on a weekly basis since October 2017 and we have been currently cleaning some ocean debris from Kamilo Beach every month. Here are some pictures our cleaning projects from Kamilo thus far:

Thanks to:

Shawn Draime, Daniel Christenson, Boce Cubitt, Tatiana Zimmer, Dustin Derreck, Geronimo Lluberas, Sam & Debbie Fowler, Garth & Debra Wheeler, Cameron Hines, Adam, Pete Fitch, Pam McBride, Donna...Read More

Old A's Beach Clean Up!

Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:09:00 -0800

Old A's Beach Clean Up!
Big thank you to everyone who came out to help make these clean ups possible. Together we can make a difference!

Thanks to:

My brother Sameul Patrick Wells, as well as Andrew Clark, Jessica & Sylah Rogers, Jen Benner, Dash & Tia, Deoni & Diana Clifford, Armonado Mejia, Rachel Hogan, Geronimo Lluberas, all the keikis and anyone else who came out to help clean up!
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Old A's Beach Clean Up!

Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:20:46 -0800

Old A's Beach Clean Up.
Mahalos to everyone who came out to help clean up some of Old Airport here in Kailua-Kona!!
This is a beautiful beach here on the Big Island of Hawaii and unfortunately it is always littered with both ocean debris and local trash like cigarette butts, plastic cutlery, plastic bags, plastic straws, plastic cups, plastic lids, plastic containers, plastic wrappers of all kinds, plastic bottle caps, styrofoam containers, ropes, diapers, cans, broken glass among other pollutants.
This clean up was made possible by a group of extraordinary "earth protectors" listed below:
Boce Cubitt, Dustin Derreck, Rachel Hogan, Marketa Murray, Diana Stanczykova, Kathy & David Vance, Liz Curry, Loren Jessup and Keoni & Diana Clifford
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Honl's Mini Beach Clean Up at Sunset!

Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:37:23 -0800

I sat to watch the sunset at Honls yesterday and noticed all the cigarette butts and bottle caps all over the beach and decided to do a small beach clean up.
What I️ picked up:
100+ cigarette butts
25+ misc pieces of plastic
20+ bottle caps
15-20 misc pieces of paper
Several pieces of ocean debris
A band aide
A bike tire inner tube
A piece of a belt
&
A HI-5 can
#pickupafteryourself #removeoceanplastics
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Pine Trees Beach Clean Up!!

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:56:24 -0800

earthFirst Hawaii Projects
Click on the "earthfirsthawaii" link above for a video from our last beach clean up at pine trees surf spot!!
This is Birdie!! She is always parked at our meeting spot at all our earthFirst cleaning projects.
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