Cuw aecasindia 2010

International Coastal Clean Up Day: Sep18th -2010

Clean up the World-Theme for 2010-Communities caring for Nature



On the third Saturday of September each year, volunteers around the world take part in the world’s biggest coastal cleanup, known as International

Coastal Cleanup Day. The event has been held internationally each year for

over 20 years, when people head to the beaches and begin removing debris and rubbish from shorelines, waterways and oceans. This year the event took place worldwide on Saturday, 18 September 2010.

The problem of marine debris does not necessarily start in the ocean, but is dumped further inland and washed down into the oceans. Statistics from the 1999 ICC showed that 59% of debris collected was from land sources. Each year there is a vast increase in the number of marine animals injured or entangled in debris found in the oceans. Turtles mistake floating plastic bags as food and thousands of seals, whales, dolphins, sharks and birds die from entanglement in fishing line and other debris.

The aim of the cleanup is:

• To remove debris from all bodies of water;

• To collect valuable information about debris;

• To heighten public awareness of the causes of litter and debris;

• To make a positive change and to promote water pollution prevention efforts worldwide.

In order to promote this day and clean up the world weekend one organization has formed in Australia named as “clean up the world”. This organization will monitor this day in collaborating various organizations throughout the world, on getting the plans from other organizations in the world - clean up the world activity will send them the promotional materials to appreciation certificates. This is the organization which will frame out a theme for this day. This year the theme is “communities caring for Nature”-2010.

With reference to this The Association for Environment Conservation Advocacy & Solutions (AECAS) organized a event at famous Natural resort”Perupalem Beach on 18th September -2010 on behalf of clean up the world activity –Australia.



The event started with a great motivation to all the tourists in the beach, The

Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) Sri.Venkata Subbaya of Narsapur was the

Chief Guest of the event.

Initially the organizers formed into a gathering followed by tourists where the

RDO had delivered a message that how important is conserving the Water

bodies, he called out the public not to use plastic and polythene bags and he also

advised tourists not to litter anything at the shore. He also warned that people

who may litter waste into water bodies will be charged with criminal cases. He

praised the initiative taken by the AECAS in organizing this event he humbly

marked that he was not even aware of this day, he only came to know this from

the Invitation of AECAS .He also thanked the youth participants and Mr.Vinay

for inviting him to this good event.



While everyone is keen to guest lecture.



Mr.Vinay Sabbithi, Secretary & Founder of AECAS delivered a message that no

one should use polythene bags or else litter them at shores or water bodies, he

also explained about the dangerous hazards using polythene and their effects to

marine life if they were thrown in water bodies. The AECAS team marched along

the shore with chief guest Showing Eco-friendly Cloth, paper and jute bags.

This is followed by cleaning the beach activity The Revenue Divisional Officer

(RDO) Sri.Venkata Subbaya himself collected the waste littered in the beach

along with the AECAS team. He continued this collection for 30 mins and he left

the place as he has to attend other official work.



RDO Sri.Venkata Subbaya collecting the waste litters in the Shore.



The Chairman of AECAS Sri.S.Arthur Vedanayakam presented a memento with

this year’s clean up the world theme to The Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO)

Sri.Venkata Subbaya before he left the place.

The Aecas team continued the work for about five hours and collected large

amounts of littered wastage. The activity can be seen in following photos.



Some of the Wastage collected at the spot.



Events collage

Note: The 2009 Banner is used here because we are against using Flexi Banners

in our District, and also it is very happy that our Honorable district collector

strictly banned using plastic and polythene. Apart of this we printed this year

theme posters and badges on papers rather than Banners. Every participant

tagged a badge containing this year cuw theme.

Participant with cuw badge-2010



Press Releases: 1.Eenadu daily 2. Andhra jyothy daily



3. Andhra Prabha Daily.

4. Andhra Bhoomi Daily

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