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In the past three years, Yang Shichai has invested five to six million yuan at her own expense in the public welfare campaign to salvage Marine debris.

Yang Shichai, 53 years old, is from Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. She runs a ship cleaning company in Shengsi County, Zhoushan. He built two ships, Canghai 9 and Zhejiang Shengqing 0001, in 2015 and 2018 respectively, which have already scooping up tens of thousands of cubic meters of Marine garbage in Shengsi waters.

"To see the sea clean, my heart is happy, green mountains is gold and silver mountains, now pay for the future generations." "Yang Shichai told Thepaper.cn on April 26.

On June 8, 2018, the Marine Fishery Bureau of Shengsi County of Zhoushan sent a golden flag to Yang Shichai, praising him as "sea scavenger"; On June 28 of the same year, the leading group of Beautiful Zhoushan Construction of Zhoushan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government selected him as "the Top Ten individuals of Beautiful Zhoushan".

Shengsi Sea area in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province is the confluence of the mouth of the Yangtze River and Hangzhou Bay, the east gate of China. Yang Shichai introduced that in the 1990s, there was a lot of garbage in the sea, the waste was congealedly, and the garbage in the harbor was pieces. "At that time, people took the sea as a trash can, and threw everything they didn't want into the sea."

The garbage was hard to break down and piled up with the tide; The foam that farmers use as buoys will break into small pieces over time and float in the sea, where small fish will die after being eaten...

In 2005, Yang Shichai, who was engaged in ship clearing, found that on some foreign cargo ships, foreign seafarers classified and stored the ship's garbage such as cigarette ends, beer bottles, and plastic bottles, and never threw them into the sea.

Shocked by this awareness of environmental protection, Yang conceived an idea: When he is able to, he must clear the garbage in the sea.

In 2015, with the development of tourism, more and more tourists to Shengsi, Yang Shichai, who has a small fortune, began to build boats at his own expense. In May 2016, the garbage cleaning ship "Canghai No. 9", which took 8 months and cost 530,000 yuan to build, was put into use, and Yang Shichai officially began to salvage Marine garbage for public welfare.

"The boat is designed by myself, and there are no ships on the market that are specifically used to salvage Marine garbage. There are many islands and reefs in Shengsi, so the ship should not be too big, otherwise it will not enter the harbor, nor too small, otherwise it will not withstand the wind and waves." Yang Shichai told Thepaper.cn.

In September 2018, Zhejiang Shengqing 0001, the second Marine garbage salvage ship he built at a cost of more than 800,000 yuan, was also put into use. Today, the two ships, weather permitting, every day swim in Shengsi Huanglong, Shengshan, Wolfberry, Hua and other sea areas to salvage Marine debris.

Before the second ship was put into use, Yang Shichai had invested nearly 3 million yuan in workers' wages, daily fuel consumption, ship maintenance and other expenses. At present, Yang Shichai employs a total of 8 workers for the two boats, plus fuel, food, maintenance, etc., and invests about 2 million yuan every year, and has invested 5 million to 6 million yuan in the past three years.

"Each ship employs four people, of which the captain earns 100,000 yuan a year, the three workers earn 80,000 yuan a year each, the food is 1,000 yuan a month for each person, and insurance and welfare are provided." "He said.

"Marine debris mainly includes foam products, plastic bottles, fishing boat waste, waste oil, etc. The generation of Marine debris is completely man-made. To protect the ocean, just rely on me to do so is not enough, first of all, we must rely on vigorous publicity, so that people establish environmental awareness, and secondly, the government should also take action, increase protection efforts at the same time, formulate special laws and regulations to manage." Yang Shichai said.

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