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Sustainable Coastline Hawai‘i’s Impact Reaches Far Beyond Its Kaimukī Office
(Above) A hands-on activity showing how to use the tools of the trade. ANTHONY CONSILLIO PHOTO (Right) Sustainable Coastlines helped clear nearly 10,000 pounds of marine debris Moloka‘i waters. PHOTO COURTESY SUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI‘I
of waste from Moloka‘i in ward Aviation, Hawaiʻi De- a handful of community a week,” McLenigan says. partment of Land and Nat- leaders.”
“This is thanks to the help ural Resources, The Nature The organization has from Kalaupapa NPS, Wind- Conservancy Moloka‘i and continued to host cleanup
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pollution crisis,” McLenigan says.
In early September, Sus- tainable Coastlines Hawai‘i staff, interns and volunteers converged on Moloka‘i to help with removing large amounts of plastic pollu- tion from the island, which has limited infrastructure for disposing of waste. The team completed multiple “marine debris removal missions,” collecting an ar- ray of microplastic pieces, oyster spacers, single-use plastic products, ghost net fragments and other harmful items.
“We are so grateful for the Moloka‘i community. Though we couldn’t have our usual large-scale clean- up, we were still able to re- move almost 10,000 pounds
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