Beach Trading Blog

With all the talk about oil going on these days, we’d thought we’d expand your knowledge of just how much oil we use for things you might not necessarily associate with oil consumption… today it’s bottled water:

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This morning the White House announced that it will be extending the existing moratorium on new deepwater well drilling for 6 months, along with plans to cancel the proposed lease sales off the coast of Virginia and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as a suspending planned exploration of two sites in Alaska.
In response, the [...]

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Someone sent us this video and we feel it is too important not to share. Some of the images are heart wrenching and may not be suitable for small children but we dare you adults to watch it!
Plastics, (bags, bottles, etc), are literally choking our planet:

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Chances are you’ve got a cupboard full of half empty bottles of various cleansers – most, of course, which are toxic not only to our environment but to your family as well.
We here at Beach Trading, being the beach and environment lovers that we are, came across a terrific article we wanted to share with [...]

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Looks like the ocean won!
Last week’s 10 hour long hearing ended on a good note for Malibu beachgoers, surfers and sea life when the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board agreed to ban septic systems in Malibu Beach, California. 
Owners of homes and businesses with existing septic systems will have to halt wastewater [...]

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This Thursday, November 5th, an important hearing is happening in downtown Los Angeles that could help to finally clean up the water at world famous Malibu Surfrider Beach and we here at Beach Trading are encouraging all of our Southern California customers to attend!
For those of you who may not know, Surfrider Beach is where [...]

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Recycle and purchase goods that are minimally packed.
Wash your clothes in cold or warm water instead of hot water.
Install low-flow shower heads and toilets.
Run the dishwasher only when it’s full and don’t use heat to dry your dishes.
Replace regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent ones.
Plug air leaks in windows and doors to increase energy efficiency.
Replace [...]

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Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Surfrider Foundation… happy birthday to you… and MANY more!!
We here at Beach Trading are happy to announce that the world-famous Surfrider Foundation is 25 yrs young and tonight they’re having a big bash to celebrate their anniversary. 
The big gala will be held [...]

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Many residents of Long Beach, CA, including members of the Surfrider Foundation and other local environment groups have been fighting for many years to have the Army Corp of Engineers either take down or reconfigure the breakwater that was erected back in the 40’s for the Naval ships that once docked in the harbor there.
They [...]

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After being in operation since 1964 and spewing about 14 million gallons of treated sewage PER DAY onto endangered corals and reef tracts one mile off Atlantic Avenue in Delray Florida , the Delray Beach Pipe was turned off!
On April 1st, of this year the outfall pipe carrying the waste of Delray and Boynton Beach [...]

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