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I’m raising money to get Beyond Plastic as a nonprofit! Donations will go towards non-profit certification and clean up supplies. Support my campaign and share with your friends!
We are in need of:
30+ Trash grabbers
30+ Pairs of yard work gloves in various sizes
10 Plastic buckets from home depot
1 20x20 tarp
2 Foldable Tables
1 Plastic/wooden tub to hold all of the supplies
Funds for certification of non-profit license
Custom canopy
If you have any of the items listed above and would like to donate them in person please contact Stevie Knapp via the email on GoFundMe.
Beyond Plastics inspires action of the environment through education, volunteer opportunities and zero waste tips. Lead by Stevie Knapp, Beyond Plastic is uniting communities through shedding light on the global plastic pollution problem.
I am in need of your help to kick Beyond Plastic off the ground! I am applying for the non-profit status and will start community clean-ups in the coming months. With your help and the help of the volunteers we will quantify the amount of debris found in different regions of the Salish Sea and on the coast.
The Salish Sea is filled with immense biodiversity. In this region, there are variety of organisms that are found no were else in the world (Pietsch & Orr 2018). However, there are things that are found here that are not so natural, plastic. The majority of the Salish Sea’s shoreline is sanding, making up roughly 3,969km of Washington beaches (Davis, Wallace & Murphy 2015). In a study by Davis et al., (2015), researches were analyzing the wrack line of sandy beaches for plastic. With 1m wide width sampling sites they found 5.8 metric tons and more than 70 million pieces of plastic. It is believed that the individuals who live directly next to the water primarily produce the majority of the debris found in the Salish Sea. While these numbers are alarmingly high, many of the beaches are rocky in the region and I would like to work to analyze distribution now that it’s almost five years later.
Plastic pollution is a growing global issue that has been gaining public awareness within the past few years. Despite the widespread research of macro and microplastic pollution in the marine environment, the abundance of debris in urban estuaries is limited. To my knowledge and research, there has yet to be a quantification of plastic waste on beaches surrounding the Salish Sea and Washington Coast. In this study, I synthesize my data with others to get a greater understanding of debris distribution. In addition, I will be conducting four different cleanups around the Salish Sea and one on the outer coast. I will be quantifying, weighing (if possible) and comparing the four different sites to one another. I will also be working with the parks and recreation communities in each city to ensure the debris is being picked up.
Currently, I have over 25 individuals who have expressed interest in volunteering for cleanups through my website, Beyond Plastic. I will be reaching out to those individuals first with the information regarding each clean-up location. In addition to this, I will be constantly working and updating my website as each cleanup concludes. You will be able to track the work that is being done!
Davis, Wallace, and Anne G. Murphy. "Plastic in Surface Waters of the Inside Passage and Beaches of the Salish Sea in Washington State." Marine Pollution Bulletin 97.1-2 (2015): 169-77. Ebscohost.
Pietsch, T., & Orr, J. W. (2018). Fishes of the Salish Sea: A compilation and distributional analysis. NOAA Professional Paper.
We are in need of:
30+ Trash grabbers
30+ Pairs of yard work gloves in various sizes
10 Plastic buckets from home depot
1 20x20 tarp
2 Foldable Tables
1 Plastic/wooden tub to hold all of the supplies
Funds for certification of non-profit license
Custom canopy
If you have any of the items listed above and would like to donate them in person please contact Stevie Knapp via the email on GoFundMe.
Beyond Plastics inspires action of the environment through education, volunteer opportunities and zero waste tips. Lead by Stevie Knapp, Beyond Plastic is uniting communities through shedding light on the global plastic pollution problem.
I am in need of your help to kick Beyond Plastic off the ground! I am applying for the non-profit status and will start community clean-ups in the coming months. With your help and the help of the volunteers we will quantify the amount of debris found in different regions of the Salish Sea and on the coast.
The Salish Sea is filled with immense biodiversity. In this region, there are variety of organisms that are found no were else in the world (Pietsch & Orr 2018). However, there are things that are found here that are not so natural, plastic. The majority of the Salish Sea’s shoreline is sanding, making up roughly 3,969km of Washington beaches (Davis, Wallace & Murphy 2015). In a study by Davis et al., (2015), researches were analyzing the wrack line of sandy beaches for plastic. With 1m wide width sampling sites they found 5.8 metric tons and more than 70 million pieces of plastic. It is believed that the individuals who live directly next to the water primarily produce the majority of the debris found in the Salish Sea. While these numbers are alarmingly high, many of the beaches are rocky in the region and I would like to work to analyze distribution now that it’s almost five years later.
Plastic pollution is a growing global issue that has been gaining public awareness within the past few years. Despite the widespread research of macro and microplastic pollution in the marine environment, the abundance of debris in urban estuaries is limited. To my knowledge and research, there has yet to be a quantification of plastic waste on beaches surrounding the Salish Sea and Washington Coast. In this study, I synthesize my data with others to get a greater understanding of debris distribution. In addition, I will be conducting four different cleanups around the Salish Sea and one on the outer coast. I will be quantifying, weighing (if possible) and comparing the four different sites to one another. I will also be working with the parks and recreation communities in each city to ensure the debris is being picked up.
Currently, I have over 25 individuals who have expressed interest in volunteering for cleanups through my website, Beyond Plastic. I will be reaching out to those individuals first with the information regarding each clean-up location. In addition to this, I will be constantly working and updating my website as each cleanup concludes. You will be able to track the work that is being done!
Davis, Wallace, and Anne G. Murphy. "Plastic in Surface Waters of the Inside Passage and Beaches of the Salish Sea in Washington State." Marine Pollution Bulletin 97.1-2 (2015): 169-77. Ebscohost.
Pietsch, T., & Orr, J. W. (2018). Fishes of the Salish Sea: A compilation and distributional analysis. NOAA Professional Paper.