SURFRIDER FOUNDATION – RISE ABOVE OCEAN PLASTICS Volunteering is good for your soul and the beach. And that’s just what the ocean conservancy does, each year they organize the International Coastal Cleanup. Sometimes you got to use a little muscle to clean the ocean. You can also stop using cosmetics with plastic microbeads, but make sure you dispose of them properly. These organizations are also working with lawmakers to enact microplastic bans in the US, Canada and Europe. Keep up the good work you banishers of microplastics!
Working together, 5 Gyres, Beat the Microbead (part of the Plastic Soup Foundation) and The North Sea Foundation has successfully convinced Unilever, The Body Shop, L’Oreal, Colgate-Palmolive, and Johnson & Johnson to all stop using microbeads in their products. But once you wash your face, these microbeads go straight into waterways because they can’t be removed from wastewater*. Microbeads are the little pieces of plastic that cosmetic companies put in their products for some extra scrubbiness. These organizations have waged an awesome and successful war against ocean plastic and in particular the terrible microbead. ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE HELPING REDUCE OCEAN PLASTIC 5 GYRES, BEAT THE MICROBEAD, and THE NORTH SEA FOUNDATION These microbead containing products may exfoliate, but they also kill the ocean. Because ocean plastic is a big problem that needs a big solution, and we need to work together on multiple fronts to solve it. Therefore, I’ve assembled a list of organizations that are actively trying to reduce ocean plastic, and suggestions on how you can help facilitate positive change. But it isn’t an easy job and right now there isn’t a catch-all solution. We can all agree here, we WANT to see plastic in the ocean cleaned up. As is explained in the technical review, we still think it has a lot of problems. It was a concept that we found had serious potential problems. At the time the project was just a concept. The brain child of Boyan Slat, he claimed that his design could clean the ocean of plastic in 10 years. Last year, Deep Sea News reviewed the Ocean Cleanup project. The second installment is a technical review of the Ocean Cleanup feasibility study and is a collaboration between Kim and Miriam. This installment is written by Kim, who will present alternatives to the Ocean Cleanup project to help curb the problem of plastic pollution in the oceans. Shutterstock, providing many images of a polluted ocean.
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