PLASTIC FREE
OCEAN & SEA
The Bold Concept
A voluntary team sailing a wooden ship through Arctic Seas to clean remote beaches where ocean plastic is known to collect.
Gathering plastic waste before further breakdown into unrecoverable microplastics.
Tracking and monitoring Arctic Ocean plastic trends.
Most importantly:
Raising awareness of the ocean plastic crisis to promote real change at the source of the problem.
Some Statistics
•Take these statistics with a pinch of salt – sea salt - they are round numbers and it’s all floating around, in the ocean.
•The first fully synthetic plastic was invented in 1907; along with all of the benefits this wonderful new material would bring, the seed for a worldwide environmental catastrophe had been planted.
Source: American Chemical society
•150 million tons of plastic already in the ocean.
Source: UN Environment Programme
•12.7 million tons enter the ocean every year – equivalent to one lorry load of plastic waste per minute.
Source: Pew Research Centre
•There are approximately 21,000 pieces of plastic in the ocean for every person on the planet.
Source: 5 Gyres Institute
•Microplastics found from the top of Everest to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Source: University of Plymouth
•Approximately 90 percent of sea birds have plastic in their stomachs.
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
•By 2050 the weight of ocean plastic is projected to outweigh all of the fish in the sea.
Source: Conservation International
•Ocean plastic pollution poses a significant threat to global public health and marine ecosystems:
We are poisoning the place.
