HEBE JEBES
JAN/FEB 2022
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FEATURES
35 volunteers and their good work
CLEAN PAK SHA WAN DAY The initial Clean Pak Sha Wan Day had been scheduled for Sunday 10 October, but Tropical Storm Lionrock obliged the Club to postpone for a week to Saturday 16 October. In between, the No. 8 Typhoon Signal was again raised as Kompasu roared past bringing more flooding and destruction … and lots more litter and debris to our shores. In particular the beaches and rocky coastlines near the Club.
最初的「清潔白沙灣日」原定於 10 月 10
日舉行，但因熱帶風暴「獅子山」
的到來，本會另訂日期，安排在 10 月 18 日。 期間又有8號颱風「圓規」呼嘯 而過，為沿岸帶來更多的垃圾和碎屑 等雜質，本會附近的海灘和岩石海岸 線尤以明顯。
So, the 45 volunteers from the Club and 22 from the Nam Wai community who arrived by ferry at Little Campers Beach just before midday had their work set out for them. Blue plastic buckets, broken bottles and polystyrene boxes, rubber mats, fridges, unwanted clothing, face masks, half a dead Jetski and, worst of all, discarded fishing nets, covered the sand from the waterline well into the undergrowth. Around the corner, towards Marina Cove, the shore of Nam Wai Beach, too, was covered in rubbish.
活動當天，本會招募的45名義工和 南圍的22名義工在早上乘渡輪抵達 小露營灣。到達目的地後，放眼望去 皆是藍色塑膠桶、碎樽、發泡膠盒、
Beach landing
膠墊、冰箱、舊衣、口罩、水上摩托 車，還有被人丟棄的漁網，沙子都堆 積在灌木叢裡。不遠處，朝著匡湖居 方向的南圍泳灘海岸亦被垃圾覆蓋。
Black refuse bags and garden gloves were brought ashore and the volunteers sprang to work, spreading out and picking up whatever they could. Everyone filled a bag, some even two, and everything was brought together so that an assessment of the day’s work could be made. But, as later pointed out by the beachmaster, the bags and other assorted rubbish could not be left at the high tide line as it would simply be washed out to sea again when the water level rose. The volunteers then moved their hard work another 20 feet up the beach ready for collection by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.
義工們迅速行動起來，拿出黑色的垃圾 袋和手套，開始撿拾垃圾。每個人的袋 子都裝滿了垃圾，有的人甚至裝滿了兩 個袋子，然後把所有的垃圾袋集中放置 一處。海灘管理員提醒，這些垃圾袋不 能留在漲潮線上，因為當水位上升時， 它們將再次被沖進大海。於是義工們垃 圾袋移到海灘上50釐米遠的地方，方便 食物環境衛生署收集。 Jen Dentry fills a refuse bag
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