Sunshine Coast Music Festival Volunteers
Pebble in the Pond is searching for eager volunteers to help us with waste management at the upcoming Sunshine Coast Music Festival over the weekend of September 4th/ 5th. Help collect recyclable items and garbage for a free weekend of fun, sunshine, and music. Contact our summer intern amelia@pebpond.com for more information.
50 Members in 50 Days
Today marks the beginning of our latest campaign, 50 Members in 50 days. From now until October 1st its free to renew your membership or sign up today. Find us tonight at the Blackberry Festival Street Party, outside Quality Foods on Mondays from 12:00 to 2:00, and feel free to drop by the office on Marine Ave anytime! But why join you might ask? Well…
1. As a member you’ll be constantly up to date on the latest plastic alternatives and our community events.
2.As a member, you’ll be notified about all the local clean-ups, information on solutions for the ocean gyres, and how you can have a positive impact on the environment.
3. As a member you’ll get first pick on all the new products of Pebble in the Pond, and that includes water bottles, bags and t-shirts.
4. And of course it’s FREE until October 1st!
Join our campaign today and help to make the Earth plastic free!
Pebble in the Pond Bag Launch
Any Pebbles interested in a chance to try out our new Pebble in the Pond Bags? Come out this Wednesday at 7pm for a coffee night at our summer office on Marine Ave. right next store to TAWS to check them out. Here is your chance to grab one of these limited offer bags. As well, we are looking for your feedback but we are sure you will love them! See you there!
Amelia Pond
Pebble in the Pond’s First Summer Night Market
Everyone is welcome to come out tonight to Willingdon Beach for Pebble in the Pond’s first night market! We will be found at one of the many booths running a waste station with recycling and compost! As well check out some of our cool products including t-shirts, shopping bags, and re-usable water bottles. If you forget your re-usable Pebble in the Pond bags don’t panic – by donation we are also offering bags made of newspaper to bring home your goodies in! Hope to see you all there to check out some plastic free products and learn all about plastic alternatives!
Amelia Pond
Yesterday Powell River welcomed the likes of 500 bikers and their support teams for the annual BC Bike Race. I stood by as the 500 bikers all quickly road off from the start line and deep into our beautiful trails. Surrounded by a crowd of people there was little garbage to be found on the ground.Like every event though here and there one could find a plastic bottle or empty bag of chips. Constantly though a volunteer would be willing to quickly pick it up.For an event of that size I must congratulate the organizers on the coordination of the volunteers, little debris left behind, and before 9 am the next morning there was not a sign anywhere that over 500 people camping on the beach
Of course we are a society committed to the ending of plastic pollution, and like any major event there was some plastic around. One tip outdoor event organizers should keep in mind is that of large tubs of water,which provide people the alternative to re-fill reusable bottle rather than plastic water bottle. Unfortunately yesterday they were not clearly marked on whom was allowed to use them. When biker’s tried to refill their water bottles they were unsure if they could. Some even never ended up refilling their bottles.
Another helpful hint I would suggest to any organizers is to have obvious recycling stations. From my detective work I could not find away recycling and it seemed all trash even if it was recyclable was thrown into garbage bins. Of course for a traveling event is it hard to transport excess and large recycling stations may have posed a problem.
The last of my observations and this is applies for anyone who uses temporary plastic markings in the forest. People use brightly colored plastic strips to mark directions of trails in the forest for hiking, biking, and camping this though poses a great threat to our incredible forests. Some are collected but many can fall to be spread across the forest floor where animals may confuse them for food. I urge people to use other options than plastic that will sit in the forest polluting.
The BC Bike race though was such an exciting experience for Powell River awakening our quite Willingdon beach and our trails. We welcome you all back next year and are looking forward to far more than 500 bikers next year!
See you next year,
Amelia Gordon
