We’re direct action ocean stewards, paddling out plastic from aquatic environments, helping people see what they can't see--a steady stream of polluting plastic
On the water
Joined September 2021
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What’s happening? Too little change. Week after week retrieving plastic litter from the water. 2500 pieces this paddle, all on their way to open ocean.
#banstyrofoam #banswork
#reducesingleuseplastic
#makeitstop
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#BansWork
Plastic recycling has always failed & will always fail.
In 1971, 1972…1983…1997…2001…2006…2012…2017…2023…as long as we let the false ♻️ solution live to hoax us another day
Only 5% of plastic is recycled in the US. We need upstream solutions that take us back to days when we didn't generate SO MUCH TRASH, not to mention days when we weren't filling our aquatic environments with wildlife-killing #plastic pollution #timeforaction @EPA #reuse #refill
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"Under the green veneer of the government’s renewable energy claims lie controversial, polluting power generators that expose the flaws and folly of the government’s reliance on #RECs to pad its environmental stats."—@reveal 🛑 #PlasticPollutes ow.ly/SVL350Pm8bo
Fish rescue! Found it w/ hook in mouth attached by short monofilament to sinker+bobber (p2) Cut w/ needle nose pliers (p3) Set it free (p4) Saved other species from swallowing fish+hook
TBH we know we’re saving fish and other species every time we #PaddleOutPlastic #ghostgear
All from the water All one morning 2,420 pieces of almost all plastic Largely single-use plastic
EPA tackle low-hanging fruit NOW, such as banning styrofoam food ware, that ghastly menace for which there are alternatives
Display frames each 2x3m
#banstyrofoam #plastic #pollution
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Send plastics back to the companies
#PlasticFreeJuly #PlasticPollution #ClimateCrisis
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateActionNow
@PlasticsWar @brkfreeplastic @PlasticsBeyond @BeyondPlastAct @PlasticPollutes @PadleOutPlastic @Plasticsimpact @NoPlasticStraws @peoplexplastic @350
Also really difficult to remove plastic trash from coral without damaging the coral.
"Volume of debris in the unexplored twilight zone is an ‘emerging threat’ to reefs already stressed by climate crisis, say scientists."
theguardian.com/environment/…
And just like that
LAX cuts trash by banning the sale of single-use plastic water bottles and encouraging flyers to fill reusable bottles at terminal water stations. Via @FOXLA #PlasticFreeJuly foxla.com/news/lax-bans-sing…
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"the L.A. Regional Water Quality Control Board adopted a protective fireworks display permit...which requires new best practices aimed at reducing #plastics and other pollution that could fall into oceans or marinas from fireworks displays."
@grace_2e
latimes.com/california/story…
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📰Good news: REDUCED DEMAND for #plasticpollution packaging in EU is driving polluters to CUT PLASTIC PRODUCTION📉
Let's all do @PlasticFreeJuly force plastic producers to cut production around the world! If we don't buy it, they won't make it!
packagingeurope.com/news/wea…
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Impressed with how the EU and the UK have mostly done away from plastic straws and serve soft drinks in glass bottles.
Managed to take a picture of my friend’s glass Coke bottle.
Why isn’t this happening in the US? @CocaCola
@EndPlasticsNow @Plasticsimpact @PadleOutPlastic
Really good read. More than what the article title suggests How Plastics Are Poisoning Us | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
What do you think—greenwashing or genuine improvement?
@CocaCola_GB loves them some #GreenWashing
#RefillRevolution #ReuseRevolution
@PlasticsBeyond @PlasticsRebel @PlasticFreeJuly @peoplexplastic @Plasticsimpact @FencelineWatch @PlasticPollutes @RethinkPlastic @PadleOutPlastic @PlasticsRebel @LifeWoutPlastic @F4F_Uk @PlasticBank
What are you refilling #WorldRefillDay to help prevent plastic pollution & reduce waste? Bags, bottles, cups? Avoid wasteful containers at hotels for shampoo, conditioner, lotion Tell hotel to switch to refillable containers.
There’s more than one way to #paddleoutplastic
Home to a wide variety of species, seagrass is also populated with plastic pieces One morning we removed over 2700 pieces You bet we need to severely cut production #globalplasticstreaty #nationalplasticpollutionpreventionstrategy @UNEP @EPA @OPC_California
We’re celebrating World Oceans Day cleaning up what shouldn’t be out there in the first place. As we’ve done for 4 years. 🍾💙🌎
The conditions on the LA River are shameful. Should the #lariver have standing to sue? @CenterForBioDiv @Earthjustice @SierraClub @NRDC
Yesterday's trip down the LA River in the Sepulveda Dam netted 400 pounds of trash - 1100+ items - shopping carts, PVC piping, & plastic bags of all kinds. And we barely made a dent. @Fritolay , @PepsiCo , @CocaColaCo , let's end the cycle @lariverx @PadleOutPlastic #endplastic
Looks a lot like the last tweet, doesn't it? 570 pcs this time. Week after week, same ol' thing: lots of #plastic littering the water, much of it food related, much of it single use. Stop it!
#PlasticPollution #PlasticTreaty
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UN to reduce plastic pollution by 80% by 2040.
youtube.com/watch?v=vhtSTBKe…
@PlasticsBeyond @Plasticsimpact @EndPlasticsNow @RethinkPlastic @peoplexplastic @AmericanYouthf1 @ClimateVotersCA @PadleOutPlastic @genzforchange @FencelineWatch @AlexandriaV2005 @sunrisemvmt @FossilFreeCA
