[jesmurf]

12. “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall here

[jelon94]

Items are always sent using biodegradable, plastic-free packing materials. [links]

[simplesharp]

24. “Only we humans make waste that nature can’t digest.” – Charles Moore more

[motherhumper]

In fact, a Greenpeace report (Plastic Debris in the World’s Oceans, 2006) stated that the world produces 260 million tonnes of plastic per year, and around 10% of this ends up in the oceans.

[Stephen Gornick]

This site uses affiliate links, and I am also a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. This means that I may make a small commission on products purchased through links clicked on this site. This will be at no extra cost to you. [links]

[friendartiste]

26. “If We have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on a planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.” – David Suzuki

[b,ca]

Every day marine life is being deafened by noise, poisoned by toxins, and choked by the 8 million pieces of plastic that enter our oceans daily.

[Veltas]

But an increasing barrage of human-generated ocean noise pollution alters the underwater acoustic landscape, harming—and even killing—marine species worldwide.
here

[Escrow agent]

– Rose George here

[suntsu]

Water is vitally important to Earth's natural balance. It gives us life, after all.

[ankostis]

But while there are infinite reasons to love and respect the ocean, it can sometimes feel like the human race is doing everything in its power to harm it. Our oceans are up against problems like plastic pollution, overfishing and shark massacres, and the everyday use of products that can devastate vibrant coral reefs. here

[QuietDad]

Below, some the quotes that remind us of how precious and delicate a resource the ocean is -- and how desperately we need to protect it. here

[mico]

In the first decade of this century, we made more plastic than all the plastic in history up to the year 2000. And every year, billions of pounds of more plastic end up in the world's oceans. Studies estimate there are now 15–51 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans — from the equator to the poles, from Arctic ice sheets to the sea floor. Not one square mile of surface ocean anywhere on earth is free of plastic pollution. more

[morize]

It's time to get at the root of this ocean crisis. The Center has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating plastics as a pollutant and is working to stop plastic pollution at the source, before it ever has a chance to reach the ocean.

[jglass]

• Fish in the North Pacific ingest 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year, which can cause intestinal injury and death and transfers plastic up the food chain to bigger fish, marine mammals and human seafood eaters. A recent study found that a quarter of fish at markets in California contained plastic in their guts, mostly in the form of plastic microfibers. Sea turtles can mistake floating plastic garbage for food. They can choke, sustain internal injury and die — or starve by thinking they’re full from eating plastic. Tragically, research indicates that half of sea turtles worldwide have ingested plastic. New studies find plastic pollution is so pervasive on many beaches that its affecting their reproduction.
• Hundreds of thousands of seabirds ingest plastic every year. Plastic ingestion reduces the storage volume of the stomach, causing starvation. It’s estimated that 60 percent of all seabird species have eaten pieces of plastic, with that number predicted to increase to 99 percent by 2050. Dead seabirds are often found with stomachs full of plastic, reflecting how the amount of garbage in our oceans has rapidly increased in the past 40 years.
• Marine mammals ingest, and get tangled up in, plastic. Large amounts of plastic debris have been found in the habitat of critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals, including in areas that serve as pup nurseries. Entanglement in plastic debris has also led to injury and mortality in the endangered Steller sea lion, with packing bands the most common entangling material. Dead whales have been found with bellies full of plastic.
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[ralphmcclure]

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is it? Using the map below, click and drag around the garbage patch (shown in red.) If you’re on mobile, zoom in and use two fingers to drag more easily. here