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Clean Seas Mean Feeds encourages people to help keep our coasts clean for a more sustainable environment and better quality saefood.Clean Seas Mean Feeds wants to help provide people with the means and resources to help defend the ocean and its wild life.In 2009 New Zealand’s seafood industry was twice ranked one of the most sustainably managed fishery in the world and we want to help keep it this way.When litter gets left around beaches, it travels out to sea through drains, streams, lagoons, estuaries and rivers.Once in our oceans, rubbish harms and kills sea creatures, who get caught in it or mistake it for food. Toxins from plastics poison our seafood. With a whopping 88% of all New Zealanders consuming fish at least once a month we need to all do our part in keeping the coasts and beaches clean. We are what we eat. Help be part of our local solution to a global problem.

Events Page 

Clean up your act bro and come help provide Kai for the future sign up for the Clean Seas Mean Feeds event near you.

Help us remove trash from the beaches and coasts we all love in order for a more sustainable environment and better quality kai.

As the population grows food resources become more scarce and that includes seafood, therefore for if it’s not sustainable its likely to run out that means no more kai for you or your crew. Within the next decade our ocean will hold about one kilogram of plastic for every three kilograms of fish.

Trash bags, gloves,  will be supplied along with free fish and chips and other goodies for all those who part take in the event.

Location 

Look out for the organisers in  highly visibility  vests along the meeting points shown on the map.

All rubbish will be gathered up at 5:30 followed by some free kai for your awesome efforts.

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If you take action in the event and have not already registered, you will receive periodic updates and communications from Clean Seas Mean Feeds

Facts for home page 

New Zealand’s commercial seafood insdustry exported 1.25 billion dollars worth of seafood in 2013

88% of all New Zealanders consume fish at least once a month 

NZ coastline 15,134km. his is the ninth longest coastline in the world.

Nearly 1 in 10 fish in the region often have plastic in their stomachs.

Lack of waste collection and management impacts public health, food safety and water quality.

80 percent of marine pollution comes from the land. 

8,327 bottle caps found during Sustainable Coastlines' December 2011 coastal clean-up of Rangitoto Island, Auckland, New Zealand.

1,064,680 litres of rubbish collected from the sustainable coast 

Sustainable coastlines collected 

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91,215 Plastic bags   8.1%

205,793 Plastic of unknown origin  18.4%

160,186 Food wrappers 14.3%

91,943 Bottle caps and lids 8.2%

84,510 Polystyrene / foam 7.5%

single- use plastics  72.4% 

From december 2010 to October 2013  

from 34 events together