Grays Harbor Surfrider

Hey Coastal Defender! Do you clean trash from the beach?
Even when there isn't an organized beach cleanup?

Document your SOLO BEACH CLEANUP! Register for your own Surfrider beach cleanup account, download a Reporting Data Card and submit your hours and data!

Group cleanups are great, but lone Coastal Defenders do A WHOLE LOT of coastal cleaning on their own and Surfrider would LOVE to have your effort counted for annual reports.

Contact [email protected] if you have questions!

Grays Harbor Beach Cleanup Page Learn more about beach cleanups in Ocean Shores and Westport, Washington.

https://thesurfshop.us/pages/westport-longboard-classic

Westport Longboard Classic | The Surf Shop Saturday & Sunday, September 14/15, 2024 marks the rebirth of the Westport Longboard Classic! We at The Surf Shop are thrilled to bring back this special event!

Join Grays Harbor Surfrider in August or September during our membership drive and dive into the excitement.

Your monetary donation of ANY AMOUNT makes you a member of the Surfrider Foundation and directly supports our chapter and our efforts to protect what we all love: our ocean, waves, and beaches.

To join now, go online at graysharbor.surfrider.org and click the red DONATE button.

Attend any Grays Harbor Surfrider event in August or September, make a donation of $12 or more, and get a limited edition Surfrider 40th Anniversary KleanKanteen reusable drinking cup as a token of our gratitude (available while supplies last). Cheers to forty years of championing sustainability together!

Become a Grays Harbor Surfrider member today! Your donation of ANY AMOUNT makes you a member and directly supports our chapter and our efforts to protect what we all love: our ocean, waves, and beaches. 🌊🌊

Go to graysharbor.surfrider.org and click the red DONATE button in the upper right corner.

It was a great day at the Seabrook Saturday Market. We met lots of new friends, had good discussions about plastic alternative products for the home, and signed up new members for our Grays Harbor chapter.

We will be at Seabrook next Saturday too- hope to see you there!.

Take the Plastic Free July Challenge!
Be part of the solution to plastic pollution - get resources and ideas to help you reduce single-use plastic waste.

www.plasticfreejuly.org

Tonight is the safety meeting for July 4th Blue Bag Brigade volunteers!
Beach Treasures Coffee Shop, 5pm-6pm
CJ from Defenders of the Coast will talk about safety, procedures, what to expect, and answer questions.
There is still time to sign up to volunteer! We need more volunteers at Chance a la Mer and Damon Road - sign up online or in person at the meeting tonight.

If you missed it...
Listen to Bruce Rittenhouse, Chairperson of Grays Harbor Surfrider, speak about Surfrider on KOSW FM.

https://m.soundcloud.com/user-203190508/bruce-rittenhouse-gh-surfriders-foundation-6-25-24?in=user-203190508%2Fsets%2Fmorning-show-interviews-2024

Come join us for our monthly meeting where we will discuss our work, pressing local coastal issues, the Surfrider mission, & how to be involved as a volunteer!
Special guest speaker Lee First with Twin Harbors Waterkeeper 🌊 🌊 🌊

🌊 FRIEND OF THE OCEAN FEATURE! 🌊

Join (COASST) this Friday, June 21 for their online COASSTLite! Marine Debris Training and help make a difference for the environment while at the beach! Their virtual training system - COASSTLite! - allows you to become a COASTer from the comfort of your home! For more information visit

Hey Ocean Shores…NURDLES are here! And thanks to & nurdlepatrol.org she is helping to raise awareness for the Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act.

PROBLEM
Current law allows the plastic industry to discharge trillions of pre-production plastic pellets directly into America’s waterways and ocean with little to no enforcement.
Plastic pellets, also known as “nurdles,” are the pre-production building blocks of nearly all plastic goods. Due to the low cost of production, pellets are often washed down drains or dumped if they come in contact with other materials like dust and dirt. They are also often spilled both in the shipping and production process, finding their way into our waterways.

SOLUTION
Congressional action is needed to prohibit the release of plastic nurdles from production, packaging and transport facilities to protect local water quality, beaches and wildlife from harmful plastic pollution.
Support: S. 2337/ H.R. TBD Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act.
This is straightforward legislation that requires the Environmental Protection Agency to prohibit the discharge of plastic pellets from facilities that make, use, package, or transport those materials; and update all existing permits and standards to reflect those prohibitions.

For more information hit the link in our bio or comment/DM us today!

Today at the Aberdeen Farmers Market, we met Joshua Francy of Clean Streams and Memes! He does incredible clean-up work along the waterways of Aberdeen!

Come see Grays Harbor Surfrider at the Aberdeen Farmers Market! There's a lot of fresh veg, food, and hand crafted goods in downtown Aberdeen until 3pm today!

Join forces with Surfrider and for the Blue Bag Brigade this Fourth of July!
We need volunteers to distribute trash bags at beach entrances in Ocean Shores. Stand with us and make a difference in keeping our beaches clean!

Comment or DM for more info or check the link in bio.

Join forces with Surfrider and Defenders of the Coast for the Blue Bag Brigade this Fourth of July!
We need volunteers to distribute trash bags at beach entrances in Ocean Shores. Stand with us and make a difference in keeping our beaches clean!

Stephanie Morton found Nurdles on the beach!
nurdlepatrol.org

Clean Shores 2024! Going out to clean the beach in Ocean Shores!

https://mycoast.org/wa

Last night was a great chapter meeting! Thanks so much to our guest speaker Jackie Lindsay, Science Coordinator for Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) who talked about the marine debris survey; what it does and how everyone can help.

Check out the MyCoast website for great tools on how to report debris, add photos of storm surges, and take training. Download their app today!

MyCoast: Washington - MyCoast MyCoast: Washington is a Washington Department of Natural Resources collaboration with other project partners, including US Geological Survey, Washington Sea Grant, the Snohomish County Marine Resource Committee, and the Northwest Straits Initiative. Information collected through this site is used t...

Beach Cleanups do more than clean the beach!

At Surfrider, we refer to beach cleanups as the gateway to activism. They’re a relatively easy and fun way to help tackle plastic pollution. The most direct impact they have is on removing plastic from the beach so it can no longer harm wildlife. However, if you’ve ever done more than one cleanup at the same beach, you know they aren’t a solution on their own.

Cleanups have the potential to make an even greater and longer-lasting impact when we track our findings and analyze the data. This can be used to later direct campaigns aimed at reducing plastic from the source. Our goal is to no longer need beach cleanups in the first place, and data collection will help us get there.

That’s why, with the support of our Better Beach Alliance partners, Surfrider launched a new Beach Cleanup tool in 2019 to better track the impact of our cleanups through itemized data collection.

Find ways beach cleanups have an impact beyond cleaning the beach here:
https://www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog/entry/beach-cleanups-do-more-than-clean-the-beach

It’s important that we communicate our impact.

View our beach cleanup tool at cleanups.surfrider.org. Surfrider chapters and volunteers organize over 1,000 beach cleanups a year and we want our members, corporate partners, and the public to know about all the amazing work that is being done.

Want to join in on the fight for plastic-free beaches? Do you pick up trash in the environment everywhere you go? At your local parks, outside of your office or school, or around your neighborhood? You can also register to log your own cleanup data when you are out picking up trash any day of the week at the link in our bio.

This data is important because it can be a useful tool when advocating for better legislation to fight pollution at its source. We are all part of the solution and together we can restore our coastlines, one beach at a time.💙

Come join us next Tuesday for our chapter meeting! Everyone is welcome to come talk about the Surfrider Foundation's mission, pressing local coastal issues, and how to be involved as a volunteer.

We will have a virtual special guest speaker! Jackie Lindsay, Science Coordinator for Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) will talk about their marine debris survey; what it does and how YOU can help.

Learn more about COASST at https://coasst.org/toolbox/marine-debris/

We will be meeting in Galway Bay's front room, just to the right as you enter the restaurant. If you want to get a beverage or something to eat, Happy Hour prices last until 6pm.

I look forward to seeing you there!

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Surfrider Grays Harbor Chapter Meeting: Virtual guest speaker from COASST Discuss about our work, pressing local coastal issues, the Surfrider mission, & how to be involved as a volunteer. Learn about the COASST marine debris survey.

We are one week from the annual coastal cleanup! Join us and register online. Link in our bio. ☮️ 💙 🌊 ♻️

Sunday, April 7th at 4pm at the Ocean Shores Public Library!

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Come join us Sunday, April 7th at 4pm at the Ocean Shores Library for an Earth Month celebration with a free screening of the documentary classic "Blue Vinyl: The World's First Toxic Comedy" (2002).

Learn about the impact of vinyl manufacturing and disposal on the atmosphere, the food chain, and humans as directors Helfand and Gold link unlikely stories and characters across continents, race, and class.

Blue Vinyl Trailer A critics' darling at film festivals across the globe and Winner of the Excellence in Cinematography Award at Sundance, BLUE VINYL is a deeply personal and f...

A group of volunteers (including Bruce Rittenhouse, executive chair of Grays Harbor Surfrider) spent Easter weekend clearing coastal trash from a remote beach on the Quinault Reservation, bagging and hauling away nearly 2500 pounds!.

This was an orchestrated group effort with permission from the Quinault Indian Nation. The volunteers hiked in approximately half a mile and had to carry out the trash.

The effort was difficult but immensely satisfying, and the volunteers got to view an amazing beach rarely seen by nontribal members. Bruce Rittenhouse said it was spectacular and well worth it. Future cleanups are in the works, but it should be noted that hiking in, collecting the debris, and hauling it out required a lot of physical effort.

For more information, click on the article from Aberdeen's own Daily World:
https://www.thedailyworld.com/news/truckloads-of-trash-hoisted-from-quinault-beaches/

For a new chapter we sure have a busy April in support of Earth Day 2024! Our monthly events kick off this Sunday, April 7th. Join us! For more information visit our website link in our bio.