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New Partnership Helps Make Recycling Impact Bigger

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new partnership between Vancouver-based Regional Recycling and international non-profit Ocean Legacy is supporting ocean and coastline cleanup.

“This partnership means we can do more for our environment than simply returning plastic bottles into the recycling stream,” said Brook Lotzkar, Marketing Manager at Regional Recycling.

Giving the community an opportunity to make their recycling impact bigger, Deposit Beverage Containers can be donated towards the Ocean Legacy Foundation at any of Regional Recycling’s eight British Columbia locations.

Ocean Legacy works to combat plastic ocean pollution. They develop and support plastic clean-up expeditions, land-based plastic collection, educational programming and pollution hot spot mapping.

Plastic debris is an ongoing problem in the ocean and concern is growing over the accumulation of plastic accumulated between California and Hawaii called The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. While its exact size is unknown, recent studies predict at least 79 thousand tonnes of ocean plastic are floating inside an area of 1.6 million kilometres [ source ]. Micro-plastics make up eight per cent of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

By the year 2050, researchers speculate there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish, with much of it being micro-plastics.

“Invisible to the eye, these micro-plastics are ingested by fish and then passed on to us when we eat seafood harvested from the ocean,” said Ocean Legacy Executive Director Chloe Dubois.

It’s estimated that every year more than one million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die from ingesting plastic.

Committed to helping heal our waters, Regional Recycling has provided donation bins at all eight of their British Columbia locations. Funds collected from donation bins will be given to the Ocean Legacy Foundation to support the cleanup of oceans and beaches.

For more information contact Regional Recycling Marketing Manager Brook Lotzkar at 604.315.5312 or brook@regionalrecycling.ca.

About Regional Recycling

Offering a variety of recycling services and solutions, Regional Recycling is a one-stop recycling shop for beverage containers, scrap metal, electronics, paint, pesticides, fuel, paper, automotive batteries and oil products. Find them online at regionalrecycling.ca or call toll-free 1.855.701.7171.

About The Ocean Legacy Foundation

The international non-profit organization utilizes spatial mapping, education and research, clean-up expeditions and plastic-to-fuel technologies to develop the world-leading Marine Debris Solutions™ program. To learn more please visit oceanlegacy.ca.

Regional Recycling Contact: Brook Lotzkar 604.315.5312 brook@regionalrecycling.ca onestoprecycleshop.ca/ocean-legacy

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