Dear Friend,

Twenty-two years ago, a woman walking along a beach in Texas was appalled at the amount of trash she saw. She felt compelled to do something and organized a beach clean-up. In two hours, 2,800 people picked up 124 tons of trash. Since that first cleanup in 1986, over 6 million people have removed some 116 million pounds of trash through Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup (ICC). From this humble beginning we learn one person can make a difference.

Recently, Ocean Conservancy released a report of the data from our 2007 Coastal Cleanup. The report is a global snapshot of the harmful impacts of ocean trash, which pollutes our water, and kills more than one million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals and turtles each year through ingestion and entanglement.

But the good news is that hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are starting a sea change by joining together to clean up the ocean. Trash doesn’t fall from the sky. It falls from people’s hands. With the ICC, everyone has the opportunity to make a difference, not just on one day but all year long

Tuesday, April 22nd, is Earth Day and a perfect time to start your own personal sea change. Please sign our pledge to keep trash out of the oceans. >>

Together, we can start a sea change.

For a sea change, Vikki N. Spruill President and CEO, Ocean Conservancy

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