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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Island Finance to participate Int’l Coastal Clean-up Day

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Ryan Bachoo
602 days ago
20230927

Is­land Fi­nance has an­nounced its par­tic­i­pa­tion in the an­nu­al In­ter­na­tion­al Coastal Clean-up Day which was held on Sep­tem­ber 16 at Ma­yaro beach. The aim of the cam­paign was to help clean up and pre­serve the ma­rine ecosys­tem by re­mov­ing plas­tic and oth­er waste ma­te­ri­als from the coast­line.

The garbage that reach­es our seas rep­re­sents a se­ri­ous threat to the well-be­ing of the coun­try since the ma­jor­i­ty is made up of plas­tics that do not biode­grade. Over time these plas­tics break in­to small­er pieces, and we end up in­gest­ing them, not on­ly in shell­fish, but al­so in wa­ter and oth­er prod­ucts.

This event was sig­nif­i­cant as we col­lab­o­rat­ed with sev­er­al oth­er or­ga­ni­za­tions that share our vi­sion of a clean­er world. “The beach is an es­sen­tial ecosys­tem. When we lit­ter it with trash, we harm the en­vi­ron­ment, ma­rine wildlife, and our­selves. One hun­dred vol­un­teers worked in teams to col­lect trash from the beach, sort it out, and dis­pose of it ap­pro­pri­ate­ly. We col­lect­ed 70 bags of trash which is main­ly plas­tic.” said Re­hana Khan, Coun­try Man­ag­er.

“To­geth­er, we can do our part in keep­ing our beach­es clean and pre­serv­ing the ocean’s ecosys­tem. We are pleased to be able to con­tribute our time and ef­fort dur­ing this im­por­tant day for the en­vi­ron­ment of our coun­try,” Khan added.

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