World Ocean Day

Iced coffee at the coffee shop
Includes:  coffee, plastic cup, plastic lid and straw

Lunch on the run 
Includes:  sandwich, potato salad, plastic utensils, plastic container and plastic bag

A beautiful seafood dinner
Includes:  garden salad, french-cut string beans, filet of fish stuffed with plastic bits

Hold on! 

Plastic bits?  That's a typo, right?

Well...not exactly.

The truth is, plastic never really goes away. It gets broken down into tiny particles that eventually find their way into the food chain (hence the beautiful seafood dinner).



Plastic has become a huge part of all our lives as you can see illustrated above.  So much so that we take for granted how much plastic we are actually using.  How long did it take you to consume that iced coffee?  Not as long as it's going to take to rid the planet of the cup, lid and straw. 

Laird Hamilton and Gabrielle Reece have created this video for World Ocean Day in association with the Plastic Pollution Coalition. 

Help keep our oceans clean...take one less piece of plastic today!