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Movie for fight against plastic OCEAN GROVE Coast Care held a movie night to continue the fight against single use plastic bags in our town. The event, held last Thursday, filled the Piping Hot Chicken Shop on The Terrace, where the movie Chasing Ice was shown. “It was a good turn out given the cold weather. Chasing Ice is an award-winning film about environmental
photographer James Balong's journey to document the melting of glaciers in the North Pole. It is a visually spectacular film that draws attention to the Earth's changing climate,” Coast Care member Jackie Scally told the Voice. The group always tries to show a film that provides a message about the environment, being local or the global environment. In an
ongoing bid to push for the Plastic Bag Free Ocean Grove campaign, the project Ocean Grove Coast care has launched is a funding campaign through Pozible, raising funds to purchase reusable jute bags. “The idea is that the funds will enable the purchase of an initial 1000 bags and through the sale of these bags, at $5 a bag, we will be able to sustain an ongoing supply
of reusable bags for the community. This also means less plastic bags in the sea,” president John O'Reilly explained. “Ben and his team at the chicken shop donated a dollar from every local Southern Bay beer that was sold. A big thank you to them for supporting us as always,” Jackie added. The group is hoping to raise more than $4500 over the next two months to go towards
the campaign and the reusable bags. For more information on the campaign, visit w w w. p o z i b l e . c o m / project/181907. Ocean Grove Coast Care’s next working bee will be on Sunday August 17 at 7W, Collendina, to remove the Polygala weed from the dunes, from 10am to noon. For more information email oceangrovecoastcare@ gmail.com.
Margot Busch addresses the audience about the environmental impact of plastic.
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