A group of 50 people decided to celebrate the Day of the Sea by giving something back to the Ocean, Walking along the uninhabited shores of the abandoned region of Firðir, north of the town of Grenivík on the East coast of Eyjafjörður fjord in North Iceland, the volunteers picked up more than two tons of trash and plastic waste which has washed ashore.
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According to the local news site visir.is the clean-up operation was supported by local tour operators and the coast guard: The whale watching company Arctic Sea Tours in Dalvík took 40 volunteers to the coast of Firðir, where they were ferried ashore by the coast guard. A helicopter from the airline Norðurflug also flew 10 volunteers into the region.
Finally, yet another local tour operator Arctic Heli Skiing, which flies skiers into the region to enjoy the remote wilderness of the mountain slopes and valleys of Firðir, flew the trash out. According to Jökull Bergmann, with Arctic Heli Skiing the trash collected by the volunteers weighed 2.5 tons, primarily plastic waste.
A group of 50 people decided to celebrate the Day of the Sea by giving something back to the Ocean, Walking along the uninhabited shores of the abandoned region of Firðir, north of the town of Grenivík on the East coast of Eyjafjörður fjord in North Iceland, the volunteers picked up more than two tons of trash and plastic waste which has washed ashore.
Read more: Photos: Volunteers remove several tons of plastic trash from Hornstrandir nature preserve
According to the local news site visir.is the clean-up operation was supported by local tour operators and the coast guard: The whale watching company Arctic Sea Tours in Dalvík took 40 volunteers to the coast of Firðir, where they were ferried ashore by the coast guard. A helicopter from the airline Norðurflug also flew 10 volunteers into the region.
Finally, yet another local tour operator Arctic Heli Skiing, which flies skiers into the region to enjoy the remote wilderness of the mountain slopes and valleys of Firðir, flew the trash out. According to Jökull Bergmann, with Arctic Heli Skiing the trash collected by the volunteers weighed 2.5 tons, primarily plastic waste.
