TransParentSea

Surfriders' Kristy Theissling will be departing with Dave and crew from Byron Bay and participating in the journey.

Each day on arrival at the beaches, the Transparentsea crew and members of the community will partake in beach cleanups. The rubbish collected will be counted and the data added to the National marine debris database.

The National Marine Debris Initiative is a project aimed at empowering local communities and individuals to take ownership of their local beaches by regularly removing the rubbish, in particular plastics, that arrive or is dropped or dumped on their shores.

100,000 marine animals and 1 million sea birds die every year from ingesting or becoming entangled in marine debris. In every square mile of ocean is an estimated 46,000 pieces of marine debris.

Members of the community are invited to come along to the cleanups. Visit surfrider.org.au/transparentsea for information on how you can be involved.

Surfriders’ Kristy Theissling will be departing with Dave and crew from Byron Bay and participating in the journey.

You can watch Kristy’s progress on the surfrider.org.au website, so stay tuned!