On Sunday November 11^th, we picked up trash along the coast around Cape Enrumu. The coastal areas of Hokkaido along the Pacific Ocean side have been experiencing a red tide event, and the evidence of this was found in the area as well. We found bleached sea urchin shells all along the beach. Let's do our best to leave a clean ocean and beaches for future generations.

Our group of volunteers collected 310 kg of trash (not including industrial waste) from the coastline. Around 55 volunteers gathered from as far as Urakawa and Obihiro to join the Samani towns people, Hidaka Credit Union, firefighters, townhall employees, and geopark guides. Thank you so much for all your hard work!

This is actually the 2^nd clean up even held at Cape Enrumu. You can read the blog post from the 1^st event here: https://www.apoi-geopark.jp/english/blog/index_3.html

Cleaning up the coast. In the back left you can see the pyramid shaped Mt. Rakko among the mountain, dusted with snow. This month, the wind along the coast has been cold but we were blessed with fair skies and little wind today.


A photo of the volunteers in front of the Mt. Apoi mountain-mass and bags of trash collected.

Oversized industrial waste that was collected. Long ropes, plastic buoys, and other fishing industry waste.

We also learned about how trash crosses the oceans. Some volunteers found plastic bottles that came all the way from China. We plan to organize this even again next year, and hope many of you will volunteer again.