Humanity Cares
The Blog
Background reading on the things a cleanup runs into: where shoreline litter comes from, what plastic does once it is in the water, why mangroves matter, and how to spend a morning on an open beach without hurting yourself.
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Waste literacy
What Actually Gets Recycled, and What Does Not
The triangle on a plastic container is a resin code, not a promise. What that number means, why some plastics have real markets and others do not, and how wishcycling makes things worse.
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Waste literacy
How to Start a Recycling Programme at Your School
Most school recycling programmes fail in the same three ways. What to check before you start, who has to agree, how to run an audit, and how to build something that survives the students who founded it.
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Field guide
Sun and Heat Safety for a Morning on an Open Beach
A shoreline has no shade, reflects light off sand and water, and gets hot fast. What that means for timing, clothing, water and knowing when to stop.
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Volunteering
Taking Children to a Beach Cleanup
What age a child can usefully take part, the safety rules that matter more with younger volunteers, how long to stay, and how to talk about the problem without leaving a seven year old frightened.
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Organising
How to Organise a Corporate Beach Cleanup Day
What a company actually has to arrange for a team volunteering day on a shoreline: permissions, insurance, group size, supplies, timing, and how to tell a real impact day from a photo opportunity.
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Organising
Why Event-Led Volunteering Outperforms Traditional Recruitment
Asking people to commit before they have tried anything is a hard sell. Building the ask around an event they already want to attend removes almost every barrier that stops first-timers turning up.
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Want the story behind the foundation?
Kelly wrote about why she started Humanity Cares, what she saw diving in Indonesia and off South Florida, and why this is not really about the ocean.