One Foot At A Time

 

This year, the Surfrider Foundation is proudly partnering with CLIF Bar to kick off Raptoberfest with our ONE FOOT AT A TIME plastic clean-up event on Saturday, October 1st!

This fun and exciting event, which is being held as part of CLIF Bar’s Day Of Action, will bring together volunteers from across the country to raise awareness of the dangers of plastic pollution by removing pieces of plastic trash from our environment one square foot at a time, and the collected material to create unique mosaic sculptures.

Participants will then be asked to then photograph and share their sculptures with the world.  Surfrider Foundation and CLIF Bar will then award their favorite submissions with a host of prizes courtesy of our friends at Rusty.

The public is invited to either join us at one of the Surfrider Foundation organized Day Of Action/OFAAT events, or simply participate on your own.

Here’s how:

Step One:  CLICK HERE to download one or all of the ONE FOOT AT A TIME templates.

Step Two: Print out the template and tape the pieces together

Step Three: Go outside and collect as many pieces of plastic as you can from you local beach, park, playground, neighborhood, etc.

Step Four: Arrange the pieces of plastic that you’ve collected on your ONE FOOT AT A TIME TEMPLATE.  Make sure and cover the entire gridded area.  Be creative – try and utilize the various shapes and colors of the plastic pieces you’ve collected to make your sculpture unique.

Step Five: Take a digital picture of your ONE FOOT AT A TIME sculpture and send it to us at OFAAT@surfrider.org.  Make sure to include your full name and location where you collected the trash to make your sculpture.  All photos must be submitted by Friday, October 14th!

Step Six: Dispose of your ONE FOOT AT A TIME sculpture in an appropriate waste container designated for recycling

 

 

We’ll be sharing your pictures here on this website.   What’s more, we will be looking for the best ones and awarding them prizes.  Here’s what we’ll be looking for:

Most Creative: OFAAT submission that shows the most creativity in terms of design.  We will be rewarding one winner for each of the five templates.

Best Use of Materials: OFFAAT submission that makes the best use of collected materials (e.g. all bottle caps, all same color pieces of plastic, etc.)

Most Trash Collected: The person who makes the most OFAAT submissions (note – we’ll be comparing your pictures to make sure you’re not simply using the same pieces of trash over and over)

Best Photo: OFAAT submission with the best, most artistic photo

“The Wheel” – The person who submits the best overall OFAAT submission for ALL FIVE templates (must utilize unique pieces of trash for all submissions)

Winners will be announced the week of October 24th.