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New Name. New Logo. New Website. Same Mission.

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Oceans to Earth | New Name, New Logo and New Website for Go Pladdle

New Name. New Logo. New Website. Same Mission.

Oceans to Earth

GoPladdle has rebranded as Oceans to Earth, complete with new logo and website.

The activities of GoPladdle have been getting so wide-ranging and far beyond our founding remit of being a vehicle for our anti-pollution activities in Poole Harbour. In response we have recently undergone a rebrand to enable us to pull all of our projects under one banner.

The result is Oceans to Earth, a trusted environmental brand providing education to schools, businesses and other organisations around the impact of ocean pollution and carbon capture, empowering them to take action.

As well as GoPladdle and the Big Harbour Clean Up, Oceans to Earth will also be a hub for other projects and partnerships. We’ll be working closely with The Word Forest Organisation is a Dorset-based charity that plant trees, build and raises environmental awareness. We’ve also teamed up with a number of local and national organisations and businesses including Poole Harbour Commissioners, Port of Poole Marina, Icom, Ribs Marine, River Boats UK, ePropulsion, Parkstone Rotary Club and Coleman Marine Insurance.

We owe a huge thank you to Rockfish, our Poole-based sponsors, who specialise in serving sustainable, fresh, local seafood in their eight restaurants located in coastal towns in Dorset and Devon. They raised £2146 for Oceans to Earth despite the uncertainty caused by Covid 19.

We’re also massively grateful to the team at Tidal Studios who designed the Oceans to Earth logo and website. We love our new logo, which combines sea and land imagery in a harmonious ying-and-yang graphic. We’ll be launching a range of clothing and other sustainably-sourced merchandise in the near future. The website itself works across all devices and we can easily update it with all the latest project and environmental news.

We’ll be working hard to update all our branding and get the new identity out into the local and national community. If you feel you can help, please get in touch.

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Turlin Moor Community Clean

Turlin Moor Community Clean

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Turlin Moor Community Clean

Turlin Moor Community Clean

Plastic Pollution on beach

Every first Sunday of the month, rain or shine (or even full-on storm in some instances), we join forces with Reconnect, Friends of Hamworthy Park and St Marys RC Church to host a community clean up around Turlin Moor.

We meet at 11 am next to the Foreland Road Playground, BH16 5AT and we’d love to see you the next the next one. Please dress appropriately for the weather (the ground can get very wet in some areas) and bring a drink (something hot helps this time of the year). Gloves, bags and litter pickers are provided. And for the time being social distancing guidelines must also apply.

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Parkstone Rotary Club Project

Parkstone Rotary Club chooses Oceans to Earth as 2021 Charity of the Year

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Parkstone Rotary Club Project

Parkstone Rotary Club chooses Oceans to Earth as their 2021 Charity of the Year

Parkstone Rotary Club chooses Oceans to Earth as 2021 Charity of the Year

Back in October, Oceans to Earth had the opportunity to E-Meet everyone at Parkstone Rotary Club and give a Zoom presentation on our projects and environmental goals for the local area. The Rotary Club is an international but community-minded organisation, with 35,000 clubs worldwide. They help to support, fund and drive forward many important projects that have a real, long-lasting impact on peoples lives.

Oceans to Earth has been chosen as their charity of the year until June 2021, meaning they’ll be helping us out hands on, and raising funds to help us meet our operational costs.

A huge thank you to everyone at Parkstone Rotary Club, we’re super excited to have their support and the opportunity to work with them. Rotary Club membership is open to all, and Parkstone are looking for more people to join their growing team of friendly and community minded individuals. For more information about Rotary Club Parkstone, click here.

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Polly Ethal

Oceans to Earth goes all-electric with Polly Ethel

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Polly Ethal

Oceans to Earth goes all-electric with Polly Ethel

Back in October 2020, we met up with the awesome Paul from Ribs Marine UK in Christchurch. We’ve always been a huge fan of River Boats in Norway and were super stoked to hear that they were coming to Ribs here in the UK. Made from 100% recyclable plastic, what’s not to love?

Together with the guys at River Boats UK, they have very kindly loaned us the River Boat 290 Open. To top it all off, Epropulsion bestowed upon us one of their incredible Spirit Plus 1.0 tiller all-electric outboard. This has massively increased our capacity, and continues to help us get to the hard to access areas of Poole Harbour with minimal impact on the environment.

Oceans to Earth goes all-electric with Polly Ethel
Oceans to Earth goes all-electric with Polly Ethel
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Plastic Free Poole

Plastic Free Poole

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Plastic Free Poole

Plastic Free Poole

Plastic Free Poole is part of the nationwide Surfers Against Sewage campaign, Plastic Free Communities. The campaign aims to reduce the amount of single-use plastics within our day-to-day lives and to get the community as a whole to change the way single use plastics are viewed and used.

There is an opportunity here for EVERYONE to get involved in some way, but BUSINESSES, SCHOOLS, COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS: you lot are the keys to making this work

Do you run or work for a small business? Could you look at reducing the amount of single-use plastics used on the premises or have you already done this? Just three simple changes within a business could qualify for the coveted ‘Plastic Free Champion’ award!

Are you part of a community group? Could you pledge to support and promote the campaign, and lead by example by reducing single use plastics?

Could your school get involved? Or, if you’re an individual, and have some time and passion to spare, we need you too!

Email us at plasticfreepoole@oceanstoearth.com for more information

Plastic Free Poole | Surfers Against Sewage
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Holes Bay Plastics Survey

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Holes Bay Project

Holes Bay is a beautiful shallow tidal bay with an abundance of wildlife that live both in and around the water edge. Maintained pathways running along it mean that it is a popular route for both cyclists commuting to Poole and a popular place for a leisurely stroll. The unique habitat of Holes Bay has given it a SSSI rating from Natural England, ensuring the environment here is given protection and monitored for any changes or challenges that occur.

However, footpaths, busy roads, sewage and overflow outlets, industry, recreational use and weather conditions mean that there is a continual and steady flow of litter and plastics entering Holes Bay and accumulating around its shoreline. The nature of the tides and its single entry point mean that litter is also carried into the bay by sea. The bottleneck entrance of Holes Bay means that once it enters, it becomes trapped, eventually becoming caught up in the reeds, salt marshes, sea defences or stuck in the mud.

Throughout 2020, we worked with landowners, surrounding businesses and other organisations to get measures in place to improve and protect this rich and important habitat by looking into ways of reducing the amount of litter entering it at its source.

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Throughout 2021, we are putting the wheels in motion for an in-depth study of the plastics deposited around the surface overflow and sewage overflow points around Holes Bay. The research will be carried out with the expert support of the awesome team at Wareham River Labs and Queen Mary University of London, and the data collected will also feed into a much larger cross channel study of marine plastics by INTERREG.

Wessex Water, Natural England and Poole Harbour Commissioners have been a huge help so far, and the data collected will help all of us to identify the sources of the plastic and find long-term solutions to prevent it entering the bay.

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Lytchett Bay Clean by GoPladdle

Lytchett Bay Project

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Lytchett Bay Project

We are working with the communities in Poole to raise awareness of the plastic problem and find ways to reduce their impact on our coast. Lytchett Bay, on the north side of Poole Harbour near Turlin Moor is beautiful, a complete haven. It plays home to over 30 species of wading birds, many of whom come here to overwinter from colder climates.

Lytchett Bay is also one of those areas that catches those shoes, lilos and plastic bottles, along with industry waste from further along the coast. Small pieces of plastic can easily be mistaken by birds as food and fishing debris such as netting and lines pose a risk of entanglement. We have been cleaning Lytchett Bay for several months, and with help from some enthusiastic volunteers we are now looking at ways to keep the bay clean and the wildlife safe from rubbish. This includes a project with the local fishermen to reduce the impact their equipment has on the area.

Lytchett Bay
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IFCA Litter Pick

Holes Bay Litter-Pick Pilot

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Holes Bay Litter Pick Project

As part of our ongoing work at Holes Bay we wanted to get local businesses to get involved as well so we set up our Holes Bay Litter Pick Pilot campaign.

We have asked select businesses that are directly facing the bay to take part in a three month pilot. The pilot requires businesses to conduct a 20-30 minute litter-pick of their premises. As we all know litter blows everywhere, and can often make its way on to business premises and, in this case, into the harbour. By litter-picking on a regular basis, rubbish and pollution build up can be stopped at source.

We will be measuring the success of the pilot throughout the three month period and will publish the results on completion.

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Poly Esther

Polly Esther

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Poly Esther

Polly Esther

We are feeling truly blessed as the Big Harbour Clean Up and GoPladdle are now motorised! We have kindly been donated our rubbish-seeking boat ‘Polly-Esther’ by Poole Harbour Commissioners. PHC have been unbelievably supportive through our journey, with the invite to help them make Poole Harbour Boat Show 2019 as plastic free as possible so it’s a big thank you to Tracy, Kerrie, and the PHC team.

Polly is powered by an electric Torqueedo outboard which has been loaned to us by Salterns Marina. We would like to say a massive thank you to Nick Smith and the team at Salterns, Golden Arrow Marine, and to Torqeedo for lending us this amazing piece of machinery! The Torqeedo Travel is an electric outboard that can also be charged via solar! You can’t get much more eco friendly than that!

Polly-Esther will be moored at Port of Poole Marina (another very kind contribution) on the Quay, and will enable us to easily bring the rubbish we collect to shore. Kayaks are great, but we are often limited to how much we can carry and having Polly-Esther will make help us to work more efficiently when there is a lot of litter to collect. We are extremely grateful to all the aforementioned for making this possible.

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