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Devil’s Isle Paddlefest & Plastic Free Weekend

Plastic Tides will host its #BYOBottle Paddle Fest event for the third year, on Sunday, June 3, kicking off Bermuda’s annual plastic free weekend. “Taking place at Snorkel Park, Dockyard, the Paddle Fest will raise awareness of the detrimental impact plastic is having on our ocean beds and ocean life, through a series of fun water-based activities... Read more of this article

Event To Showcase Plastic Tides Film ‘The Canal’

Plastic Tides will be hosting an event at BUEI about their award winning film ‘The Canal’ on Tuesday, September 20 at 7:30pm. The event poster says, “Plastic Tides is hosting a screening of its award winning film The Canal at BUEl. The Canal documents Christian Shaw and Gordon Middleton’s journey down the Erie Canal in New York... Read more of this article

Homeschoolers Help Clean Up Ahead Of Event

Alongside Keep Bermuda Beautiful [KBB] and Plastic Tides, twenty students from the Bermuda Homeschool Group recently cleaned up the 9 Beaches/Daniels Head Beach Park site in preparation for the inaugural Devil’s Isle Challenge. A spokesperson said, “They collected 13 bags of trash and two bags of recycling to be taken away from the site,... Read more of this article

Photos: Plastic Tides Team Visits Bermuda

The Plastic Tides Team is currently in Bermuda as they undertake a circumnavigation of the island in order to raise awareness of the #BeatTheBeadBermuda campaign alongside BEST. The Plastic Tides team visited in June 2014 and returned with their flights being sponsored by MultiStrat Re, a Bermuda specialty reinsurer focused on launching and growing... Read more of this article

Ocean Research Team To Return To Bermuda

A team of young researchers who visited Bermuda last year to catalogue the amount of plastic near the Island’s shores are to return to look for something that is barely visible to the eye. The four-strong Plastic Tides Team aims to raise awareness of the amount of plastic polluting the oceans and combine their love of adventure with research. They... Read more of this article

Video: Plastic Tides Releases Second Episode

Following up on their original video release, the Plastic Tides crew – a team that works to bring awareness to the issue of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans – continues their look at Bermuda, resulting from a 10-day expedition around the island that was completed earlier this year. In episode two of “Plastic Tides,”... Read more of this article

Video: Team Surveys Bermuda Plastic Pollution

A video released by the Plastic Tides crew — a team that works to bring awareness to the issue of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans — highlights their recent 10-day expedition around Bermuda, during which they surveyed local waters for stray plastics, using specially designed manta trawls to collect samples of surface plastics. The... Read more of this article