#savingtheoceans

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WHY I’M EXTRA KEEN ON WORLD OCEANS DAY

https://loch.life/blogs/loch/world-oceans-dayI’m keen on World Oceans Day because it is a day when more people and more companies take these kinds of moments to think about how collective little individual actions can help make a dent in saving the oceans. Read the full article

[diegooceanfive]

Diego Ocean Five and @sunglasscat currently in the white space world, together thinking about the future and how to change the world! White Space is a dimension where no stories are yet created and imagination is the world🙀 ... We think stories told and created can change the world, somehow even save us from us! Use #fiveoceanluv and tell a story that can change the world! Our story is never giving up and help creating changes! And we start we our oceans ! All five! By making you think about the future on earth ! Using products that slowly come back to harm us or those we love! And so much more... @diegooceanfive Changes can be thought, if you want to learn!🙀 Let’s save the world with our actions ✌🏼... . . . @meowed @cats_of_instagram @people @mrbigglesworthrabbit @instagram @theellenshow @natgeo @ourplanet @earth @bark @barked @dogsofinstagram ... #ourplanet #planetearth #savingearth #savingtheoceans #oceans #plasticwaste #zerowaste #recycledmaterials #recycled #environmentalhealth #futurediary #cats_of_instagram #meowed #barked #bark #people #abc7eyewitness #seoghør #changetheworld #animalplanet #oceania #tibetanspaniel #woofwoof #creatorsforchange #creatorclass #makeachange #vg #nrk https://www.instagram.com/p/B21njb1gz5W/?igshid=s87074047nkk

[meltingoceans]

Banning Plastic Bags in Los Angeles City

Following in the footsteps of San Francisco, Seattle, and other cities around the world, the Los Angeles City Council has voted to ban single-use plastic bags. The city of angels consumes over 2 billion plastic bags annually and the council spends millions of tax money in collecting them. 

Plastic bags have a huge environmental cost as they enter landfills, waterways and ultimately the ocean.  A massive conglomeration of plastic waste in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean is said to be one or two times the size of the US state of Texas, according to Greenpeace. 

Campaign groups fought hard for the measure, which received 11-1 votes in favor from the council. The measure will go into effect on January 1st, 2014, and it makes Los Angeles the largest city in the U.S. to ban plastic bags. Not only that, but it means that by the end of 2014, over 30% of California’s population will be covered by laws regulating plastic and paper bags.

For those of you out there who still aren’t convinced that banning plastic bags is a good idea, then you must take a really good look at this photo of 100 plastic bags found in a dead sperm whale’s stomach. 

Related: This video reveals both the real magnitude of the plastic pollution problem and the shocking fact that we humans are also eating plastic junk.

[meltingoceans]

What do emptier waters look like?

The oceans are out of site and out of mind – people can't and don’t want to protect anything they can't see. It is vital we reveal the oceans and their deteriorating state.

The Guardian have compiled 200+ oceans-related datasets into an interactive web aquarium that shows the decline in fish populations over the past 100 years. See it for yourself here.

[meltingoceans]

Disturbing video captured by the Midway team. A beach “cleanup” quickly reveals both the real magnitude of the plastic pollution problem and the shocking fact that we humans are also eating plastic junk, not only figuratively, but quite literally as well.

Visit Midway to discover more.