Around 40 BSPCare volunteers, community leaders, and residents from Mukim Belait collected 483.08kg of trash as part of a Beach Cleaning Campaign held on October 5 along the beachfront along Kuala Belait.
The event, organised by Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sdn Bhd (BSP), was held in conjunction with International Coastal Cleanup Day, a global volunteering effort to clean up beaches, lakes and rivers.
BSP Communication and External Affairs (CEA) Manager Suriani Garip emphasising the importance of engaging with the local community to achieve a unified goal of preserving the cleanliness of the environment.
She highlighted how Brunei has previously contributed to the effort in collecting more than 1.8 tonnes across 40km of beach and collected 3,490 individual plastic bottles in 2023, and she hopes that the campaign held this year will also have a similar impact in contributing towards this global initiative.
The collected trash was also recorded on the Clean Swell app which consolidated the data from similar initiatives and efforts for scientists and advocates to determine the best action to tackle ocean trash on a global scale and create long-lasting solutions for plastic pollution.
