#Repost from our talented conservation minded friend @sarahhammondstudio // @download.ins --- THE OCEANS START HERE Collab with @surfridervan This is the 1st illustration of 3 the next 3 are on my feed for your viewing pleasure. Here we have the smoking raccoons 🦝 casually discarding their cigarette butts on the street. For surfrider when they do the beach clean ups. Cigarette butts end up being about 58% of the trash at the Vancouver beach clean ups. I’ll post some info about this in my stories from @surfridervan. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a similar number in Vancouver streets. Cigarette filters contain plastic in them. So more plastic on our streets and as said before eventually in our water ways & then in our oceans with these poor harbour seals. My goal of this is to encourage people to dispose of their cigarette butts responsibility. For bars, nightclubs, cafes & restaurants, venues where customers frequently smoke to simply have a bin for their customers to dispose of that then they as a company dispose of at the end of the day or night. I don’t mind if you smoke or not! Just prefer less litter on our streets. I hope you like the whole series. Feel free to share these images. Let me know what you think? I hope they encourage us to have cleaner streets & oceans, not just in Vancouver but everywhere. Follow surfrider for future events although all have been temporarily cancelled due to covid. Hopefully there will be a beach clean up in the not too distant future. . . . . . . . . #plasticfreejuly #surfrider #surfridervan #surfriderfoundation #zerowaste #vancity #protectwhereyouplay #sarahhammondstudio #beachcleanups #streetcleanups #smokingraccoons https://www.instagram.com/p/CC3DZOZhiX3/?igshid=fpdguk67mqjx
