Archive for the 'Plastic' Category
Don’t let the bag monster ruin your view
Published 25/10/2011 Plastic , Rise Above Plastics , Surfing , Surfrider Foundation Leave a CommentDon’t Feed The Bag Monster!
Published 21/10/2011 Plastic , Rise Above Plastics , Surfrider Foundation Leave a Comment
via RAPtoberfest
- Stop using single-use plastic water bottles. In nearly all cases, the water out of your tap is just as safe – if not safer – than the water distributed in single-use plastic bottles. Instead, buy and use a reusable bottle and fill it with water.
- Whenever possible, buy food in bulk. Buying food in bulk helps to reduce the total amount of packaging materials consumed.
- Buy your music electronically. By purchasing your music electronically, you avoid the need to create plastic compact discs, plastic jewel cases, and cellophane wrapping.
- Stop using plastic grocery bags. Each year over one trillion plastic bags are used worldwide. Because these bags are so light and thin, they are easily carried by the wind out into the environment. Instead, use reusable bags to get your groceries and other purchases home.
- Say “NO” to pre-packaged single serving portions. These types of products are among the worst when it comes to excess packaging.
- Reusable containers are rad! When it comes to lunch and leftovers, ditch the plastic bag and use reusable containers instead. Reusable containers are just as easy to use and far less harmful to the planet
- Buy a reusable travel mug. Use a reusable travel mug or to-go cup for your coffee, tea and other beverage purchases. Think of all the lids (as well as the waxed paper cups) you’ll save.
- Always look for alternative packaging. Many items such as soft drinks, detergent, cat litter, etc. come in alternate packaging (such as aluminum or cardboard) that can be more easily recycled than plastic.
- Buy and sell secondhand. Clothing, toys, baby gear, furniture, household supplies, sporting goods and many other consumer items can often be found through secondhand sources, thereby reducing the amount of new plastic entering the waste stream.
- Recycle! In those instances where you must use plastic, please make sure to recycle it. Most plastics can be upcycled to make cool and useful items, including Rusty ECO-stretch boardshorts!
One Beach The Film
Published 21/09/2011 Barefoot Wine , Jason Baffa , Plastic , Surfrider Foundation Leave a CommentAmazing film by Jason Baffa, presented by Barefoot Wine and Surfrider Foundation.
This is why I am involved with Surfrider Foundation.
Surfrider Foundation Film Night
Published 16/09/2011 Plastic , Rise Above Plastics , Surfing , Surfrider Foundation Leave a Comment
This going to be an amazing evening, you don’t want to miss it if you live on the Gold Coast!
Watched a screening of the film ‘Bag It” last night in Byron Bay. Wow. It was a great film, yet at the same time made me feel sick. It is time to do something about our plastic problem. If you live on the Gold Coast consider getting involved in our upcoming Rise Above Plastics Burleigh Heads campaign. More details at Facebook.com/surfridergct
Nice piece by Johnny Abegg
Our oceans aren’t the only ones in danger
Published 13/06/2011 Plastic , Surfrider Foundation Leave a Comment
Surfrider Foundation 5 Minutes on Single-use Plastics
Published 10/03/2011 Plastic , Surfrider Foundation Leave a CommentMore info at www.riseaboveplastics.org
Hanai Yusuke Rise Above Plastics
Published 06/11/2010 Plastic , Surfrider Foundation Leave a Commentvia Hanai Yusuke
Would you throw your trash into your backyard?
Published 02/11/2010 Jim Moriarty , Plastic , Surfrider Foundation Leave a Commentvia Jim Moriarty
Of course you wouldn’t.
But that, in effect, is what all of us have done with our plastic trash that ends up in our oceans.
Two points here.
1. The ocean IS our backyard. I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “sea level.” Everything higher in elevation than sea level (everything on land) is pulled by gravity towards sea level. Some things move faster than others, plastic bottles move like a bobsleds towards sea level while your car stays put. You wouldn’t throw trash in your backyard so don’t throw it anywhere else that will end up in your other backyard… the ocean.
2. Rise above plastics. All the plastic trash you see in the image to the left was used for maybe… ten minutes. It will last for tens of thousands of years (arguably forever). What’s worse, a grotesque amount of our everyday plastics end up as ocean trash. Every beach on the planet (that hasn’t already been cleaned up) has plastic trash on it. Check out the 2 minute video below I shot in the Maldives. For some perspective look where the Maldives are located… they are far away from… everything. Yet the mythical deserted island is inhabited… by tons of plastic.
Become vigilant about refusing plastic water bottles and single-use plastic bags.
Plastic Bag Monster on the Gold Coast?
Published 29/10/2010 Plastic , Surfrider Foundation Leave a Comment
Plastic Bag Monster – coming to Burleigh Heads in Feb 2011 for the Rise Above Plastics Burleigh Heads campaign from Surfrider Foundation Gold Coast Tweed .
If you have plastic bag that you would like to donate to ‘plastic bag monster’ outfits let me know.
adam@surfridergct.org
Plastic Bottle Wave on the Gold Coast?
Published 26/10/2010 Plastic , Surfrider Foundation Leave a Comment
Could we make this plastic wave and showcase it throughout the Gold Coast in 2011? I think so.
via Coastal Watch
The Plastiki sailed into Sydney to “inspire educate and activate individuals, communities and business’s to start moving towards a smarter more sustainable future.”
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| Just a few days ago history happened, as it often does. You might have seen it on the news, you might have read about it in the morning paper, but did you fully comprehend the magnitude of the mission? Did Captain Cook? These brave few surely did. David Mayor de Rothschild and his crew sailed in through the Sydney Heads completing what has been called the “greatest adventure of the century”.
Having been deemed, a National Geographic Society ‘Emerging Explorer’, The World Economic Forum ‘Young Global Leader’ and UNEP ‘Climate Hero’, Rothschild, the youngest heir to the Rothschild fortune, founded Adventure Ecology in efforts to “inspire educate and activate individuals, communities and business’s to start moving towards a smarter more sustainable future.” Almost four years ago The Plastiki began her adventure after a devastating yet inspiring report issued by UNEP called ‘Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Deep Waters and High Seas’. The group also took lead from Thor Heyerdahl’s epic 1947 expedition, The Kon-Tiki. The mission of Adventure Ecology is to educate and inspire via exciting and captivating expeditions. The Plastiki is just that. For more then 180 days at sea, crossing the Pacific, the crew aimed to bring attention to what Rothschild calls, ‘our human fingerprint’. The ever-present remnants of plastic that have been spreading through our oceans since it was first created 101 years ago. It slowly breaks down, filters through our fish and not only devastates their future as a species, yet also ends up on our plates. We might be inventive, yet we aren’t that smart. Rothschild message was about the future, it was about innovation and about awareness. He explains, diamonds are valued due to our perception of them, it is the message of Plastiki that we begin to view plastic in an entirely new light. According to Adventure Ecology: • Plastiki is engineered almost entirely from 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles Plastiki is an adventure for our age. She will stand proud with those innovators such as the man who invented plastic himself. It is not enough to admit that plastic is devastating our oceans and earth. It is the most valued step to acknowledge an alternate route to understanding resources. Plastic is not going anywhere, and as the founder of Cleanup Australia & Cleanup the World, Ian Kiernan, put it at the arrival celebration, “one day we will be fishing for the resource of plastic.” Exploring towards new possible futures Rothschild and the Adventure Ecology team aim to inspire, and ask only that we take the lead actively contribute to the bigger picture of our future. - Tatianna Alpert |
The Crew having dinner.
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Surfing legends Chris and Keith Malloy have spent years travelling around the world looking for the best undiscovered surfing spots. From Antarctica to Iceland and from Galapagos to New Caledonia, no matter how remote the place was, plastic was already there.
