VSB radio news interview 28 April 2010
KBB President, Amy Shillingford, talks with Bryan Darby.
It's less than 2 minutes!

Mr. Darby said this was the 'trashiest interview' he's ever done!

For at least the last decade, marine plastic pollution has been a growing problem in Bermuda. Surprisingly most of what washes up on our shores is not from Bermuda. Similarly what residents of Bermuda let fall into the sea gets carried by the current of the 'gyre' over to the coast of Africa. There are 5 gyres in the world.

In January of this year, we welcomed to Bermuda the husband-wife research team of Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins who are part of The 5 Gyres Project to study marine plastic pollution around the world. They have already studied and documented the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'. This year they travelled from the Bahamas to Bermuda, then Bermuda to the Azores as two legs in the journey to study plastic pollution in the Sargasso Sea. To learn more about what they found, go to www.5gyres.org.

When the 5 Gyres team was in Bermuda, several environmental organizations were involved - Greenrock, BIOS, BAMZ, B.E.S.T., KBB and the National Trust. We are all interested to know the extent of the plastic pollution problem in the North Atlantic and what are the solutions.





















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KBB launches campaign to tackle cigarette litter July 2010

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KBB launches cigarette butt litter campaign July 2010

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KBB holds annual Spring Cleanup May 2010

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Art for trash's sake Apr 2010

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Painting The Big Guns Mar 2009

On Thursday evening Partner Re will reward a hard-working team of students from Cedarbridge for their work painting the big cannon at three of St. George’s historic fortifications. More....

Valentines Day Feb 2009

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KBB bins for BFA Feb 2009

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KBB continues to clean-up when others won't Feb 2009

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Great Kick-Off To KBB’s 2009 Jan 2009

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Fort cleaning effort gets high praise Nov 2008

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Primary school students doing their part to help keep Bermuda beautiful Oct 2008

Primary Schools were yesterday doing their part in helping the environment by picking up trash at or around their schools. More....

Keeping our school clean every day! Sept 2008

On Friday, 16 classes of the Upper Primary of Saltus Grammar School were involved in a clean up of the school grounds. More....

KBB happy with clean-up results Sept 2008

More than 100 volunteers were out in force for Keep Bermuda Beautiful's campaign over the weekend. More....

Trashing Bermuda May 2008

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