Plastic bags,Adult Videos Movies | Adult Movies Online straws, bottles, and toys clutter the world's oceans, from the depths of the Mariana Trench up to the frigid North Pole.
For most land dwellers, it's an invisible problem. We do our best to recycle, or use canvas shopping totes, then largely forget about the enormous piles of plastic garbage smothering the sea.
Environmental groups are devising creative ways to capture our attention, from video games to strawless restaurant campaigns.
We Are the Oceans' interactive game, launched this week, lets you "collect" pounds of virtual plastics. Play it here, or try it below on desktop:
The game stars a vaquita, a small porpoise from Mexico on the edge of extinction. Only about 30 vaquitas remain, making it the world's most rare marine mammal. After playing, users are encouraged to sign a pledge to commit to using less plastic in the real world.
"The Big Catch," empowered by Playmob and supported by the United Nations, is the first in a series of initiatives designed to change consumer behaviors.
"One of [our] goals is to show people the interconnectedness of the oceans with our everyday lives, and how the smallest lifestyle change can make a lasting impact towards protecting the future of our people and planet," Daisy Kendrick, founder and CEO of We Are The Oceans, said in a statement.
An estimated 19.4 billion pounds of plastic wind up in the ocean each year, a 2015 study found. The garbage is a choking hazard for birds and marine wildlife. It also spreads toxic chemicals up the food chain, from microscopic plankton all the way to humans.
Los Angeles kids, teachers, and volunteers form a massive shark to "Defend the Sea" from plastic. Credit: Lou Dematteis/Spectral Q via Getty Images A separate anti-pollution project is focused on one plastic perpetrator in particular: drinking straws.
Strawless Ocean, an effort by the Lonely Whale Foundation, works with restaurants and coffee shops to help them ditch plastic straws and swap in paper substitutes. In the U.S. alone, Americans use around 500 million plastic straws every day, which, in worst-case scenarios, can end up lodged in the noses of turtles.
At Freehold, a hybrid work space-bar-venue in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, plastic straws are nowhere in sight. If patrons want something to slurp with, they can request paper straws, which are made by the startup Aardvark — and, fortunately, don't immediately turn to mush.
Via GiphyBrice Jones, a co-owner of Freehold, said the bar previously ran through 1.5 million plastic straws a year. Now, he expects to use about 700,000 paper straws a year, though it will cost an extra $3,000.
"We wanted to be at the forefront" of the strawless movement, he said from the bar on a recent afternoon. "We want to show other restauranteurs how to make it work."
Jones said Freehold is also looking at composting its food waste and recycling other plastic products. Emy Kane of Lonely Whale said going strawless could hopefully act as a "gateway" for reducing other types of plastics that wind up in the ocean.
Such efforts can't come soon enough.
Scientists recently discovered that fragments of plastic waste are even showing up regions as remote as the Arctic Circle.
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