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Truth. There are reactions to your actions. Your consuming behavior is destroying the planet. Get off your phone and connect to mother earth. 💛 #plasticpollutes #itdoesntgoaway #plasticocean #plasticseverywhere by @plasticseverywhere

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Please allow me to believe there is light at the end of this tunnel of ocean plastic. #worldseaturtleday #refuse #plasticpollution by @plasticseverywhere

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Approximately 900 million lightweight plastic bags are used in Queensland each year with costs to the environment and economy. by @plasticseverywhere

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Soon the whole ocean floor will look like this. What are you gunna do to stop it?
#refuse #reduce #plasticfree taken in Los Angeles, California by @plasticseverywhere

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Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit that organizes an annual coastal cleanup event in more than 150 countries worldwide, said plastic debris makes up around 85 percent of all the trash collected from beaches, waterways, and oceans. Worldwide, “single-use packaging is the biggest source of trash” found in or near bodies of water, said Ocean Conservancy’s Nick Mallos. by @plasticseverywhere

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This is the world we live in! Stop single use plastics. Just Refuse it!
#refusethestraw #refuse #banplasticbags #banplasticstraws #banplasticbottles by @plasticseverywhere

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Join SAVE THE MERMAIDS for Plastic Free July to make a SPLASH!
Quit all single-use plastics for the month of July! Sign up with us at www.savethemermaids.org/plasticfreejuly to be a part of this challenge. Throughout the month we will be giving away amazing Mermaid and Merman swag for all the active participants in Plastic Free July! Prizes throughout the month will include TEEKI pants, made from up-cycled plastic water bottles, Save the Mermaids shirts, stickers, necklaces, a swim suit for your summer collection, artwork, and more! We cannot wait to inspire each other as a community and help spread awareness for our beautiful Oceans worldwide. At the end of the month, those who send us a writeup of their challenges, triumphs, and experiences this month will be featured on our blog and gifted a FREE Save the Mermaids glass water bottle!
The challenge is quite simple. Attempt to refuse single-use plastics during July. “Single-Use” includes plastic shopping bags, plastic cups, straws, plastic packaging, wrappers… basically anything that’s intended only to be used once and then discarded. Remember it’s not going to be easy! It’s a challenge, not a competition so do not work on being perfect. The goal is to learn together and aspire to create change!
Collect any unavoidable single-use plastic you buy. Keep it in a dilemma bag and share it with us at the end of the challenge. Best shares we will also be adding to our blog at the end of the month!
THE RULES:
Pledge to be “Plastic Free for the Sea” at www.savethemermaids.org/plasticfreejuly by Sunday July 3 to receive your Starter Package and be in the run for goodies all month!
Refuse to use single-use plastic throughout the month.
Post to your social media throughout the month (minimum once a week) with your motivational tips, and challenges you have found. Make sure to tag @save_the_mermaids and #STMplasticfreejuly and #plasticfreeforthesea so we can watch your progress! by @plasticseverywhere

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Over 500,000,000 plastic straws are used each day in the United States. In only the past twenty years, people have come to expect plastic straws in every drink, in an example of extreme waste being generated for minimal convenience. These short-lived tools are usually dropped into a garbage can with no further thought, instantly becoming a source of plastic pollution.
The Last Plastic Straw initiative seeks to activate citizens through a grassroots campaign to encourage individuals to push for change in restaurant protocol and practices in their local communities around the world.

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Visit www.thelastplasticstraw.org by @plasticseverywhere

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#lifeinplastic #stopplasticpollution #theplasticocean #plasticseverywhere
#wrappedinplastic by @plasticseverywhere

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Plastic never goes away. And it’s increasingly finding its way into our oceans and onto our beaches. In the Los Angeles area alone, 10 metric tons of plastic fragments — like grocery bags, straws and soda bottles — are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day.

Today billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences making up about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces.

Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it. Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are among nearly 300 species that eat and get caught in plastic litter. by @plasticseverywhere

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Yes on prop 67! Now lets do plastic water bottles! by @plasticseverywhere

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Recently, the prospect of banning "primary microplastics", or microbeads in cosmetics, became headline news, but secondary microplastics - where plastics have broken down from larger segments, remains as big albeit a much less well-understood problem.
Many would argue plastics as a whole should be banned altogether, but Eunomia takes the view that turning our back on all plastic is unlikely to appeal and instead the organization suggests a number of measures including:
a deposit-return scheme for single-use beverage containers
the phasing out of plastic cotton bud sticks, (which can readily be replaced with paper-based alternatives)
a comprehensive ban on microbeads in cosmetics products that could subsequently be extended to other products that are sources of marine microplastics
the phasing out of plastic drinking straws and stirrers
Cyrill Gutsch, founder of New-York based Parley for the Oceans, has come up with another way of helping the clear up - by championing eco-innovation, and challenging brands to understand where their products come from at every point in the supply chain.
Using ocean plastics in products for fashion and sports industries is one part of this. Parley's solution is ultimately to re-invent plastic, and in the short-term follow the rules: to avoid plastic wherever you can, intercept plastic and pollution and redesign the source of the problem.
Working with adidas, Parley has helped create a new trainer, which is made from sea plastics, and the company has teamed up with the UN to work with small island states including the Maldives, Grenada and the Seychelles.
Speaking about his collaboration with adidas Cyrill says: "Brands shouldn't just assemble their product. They should make the product and understand every little ingredient in it. You can only tweak the supply chain if you understand your product to the core."
Other brands tackling the plastic problem head on include US-based Hamilton Perkins, which creates bags from thousands of recycled plastic bottles, collected in developing countries.

http://www.theecologist.org/green_green_living/2988274/plastic_pollution_of_the_oceans_has_reached_crisis_point.html by @plasticseverywhere

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