Paddle Out Plastic

@WasteCounter @EPA @PlasticsBeyond @AGRobBonta @FTC @enckj @jbruggers So infuriating. Round and round we go.

👇🏼PROOF US @EPA has been duped plastics industry's false claims 🤥they would improve ♻️recycling of plastic packaging for 33 years! USEPA: We expect the amount to increase because of "recent efforts by the plastics industry to push recycling" 1990 San Luis Obispbo Tribune

@CherylAuger3 @ghazarian_anita @Amy_WB @bsteph Thanks for the heads up!

What’s happening? Too little change. Week after week retrieving plastic litter from the water. 2500 pieces this paddle, all on their way to open ocean. #banstyrofoam #banswork #reducesingleuseplastic #makeitstop

@PadleOutPlastic @EPA @greenpeaceusa @PlasticsBeyond @PlasticsWar @Plasticsimpact @PlasticOceansUS @BoyanSlat @SierraClub @SurfriderLA @cawrecycles #BansWork Plastic recycling has always failed & will always fail. In 1971, 1972…1983…1997…2001…2006…2012…2017…2023…as long as we let the false ♻️ solution live to hoax us another day

Only 5% of plastic is recycled in the US. We need upstream solutions that take us back to days when we didn't generate SO MUCH TRASH, not to mention days when we weren't filling our aquatic environments with wildlife-killing #plastic pollution #timeforaction @EPA #reuse #refill

@JustinGee69 @PlasticFreeJuly @Plasticsimpact @PlasticsRebel @PlasticsBeyond @PlasticsWar @EndPlasticsNow @RethinkPlastic @genzforchange @NextGenAmerica @brkfreeplastic @FencelineWatch @Fri4Future_PA What is it?

Doing laundry a bit differently today. What do you notice? #PlasticFreeJuly @PlasticFreeJuly @Plasticsimpact @PlasticsRebel @PlasticsBeyond @PadleOutPlastic @PlasticsWar @EndPlasticsNow @RethinkPlastic @genzforchange @NextGenAmerica @brkfreeplastic @FencelineWatch @Fri4Future_PA

@WasteCounter @circulareconomy @plasticsnews Can’t read the article, but the quick bit I saw indicates demand is falling; prices are falling. Seems to translate to what “we” are doing is working.

More proof: @circulareconomy of plastics = toxic ☠️ hoax based on flat out false economics “there is huge preference for cheap, amply available, high-quality virgin resin” Product companies want NEW plastic without toxic recycled content plasticsnews.com/resin-pricing/… @plasticsnews

"Under the green veneer of the government’s renewable energy claims lie controversial, polluting power generators that expose the flaws and folly of the government’s reliance on #RECs to pad its environmental stats."—@reveal 🛑 #PlasticPollutes ow.ly/SVL350Pm8bo

@CalebRudow @priceyharrison Way to #PaddleOutPlastic 🤙🏽

Channeling @priceyharrison and picked up some trash while paddling the Neuse yesterday. Turns out discarded floaties in the river make for an excellent "captain's chair" on my paddle board.

Fish rescue! Found it w/ hook in mouth attached by short monofilament to sinker+bobber (p2) Cut w/ needle nose pliers (p3) Set it free (p4) Saved other species from swallowing fish+hook TBH we know we’re saving fish and other species every time we #PaddleOutPlastic #ghostgear

All from the water All one morning 2,420 pieces of almost all plastic Largely single-use plastic EPA tackle low-hanging fruit NOW, such as banning styrofoam food ware, that ghastly menace for which there are alternatives Display frames each 2x3m #banstyrofoam #plastic #pollution

Send plastics back to the companies #PlasticFreeJuly #PlasticPollution #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateActionNow @PlasticsWar @brkfreeplastic @PlasticsBeyond @BeyondPlastAct @PlasticPollutes @PadleOutPlastic @Plasticsimpact @NoPlasticStraws @peoplexplastic @350

Also really difficult to remove plastic trash from coral without damaging the coral.

@fredsteenbergen @Win_OpenData @BoyanSlat There’s too much. And industry has relied far too long on volunteers to make up for their greed when they fail to internalize all costs associated with their money making activities.

@Win_OpenData @BoyanSlat But that is not up to you. If people want to do the cleanup, for free, because they care for some reason, then why shouldn't they? I'm one of those people, and i don't want to be compensated. But i agree that we could do this forever, so i'll let others to worry about prevention.

Scrolling through comments on videos of plastic pollution, I often see people blame the locals, companies, certain countries, politicians, etc. But can you name a single problem that has been solved by blaming? Let’s instead focus on fixing things rather than pointing fingers.

@Win_OpenData @fredsteenbergen @BoyanSlat Agree. Somebody should be compensated for what we are doing. Plus source reductions We’d rather be taking photos of wildlife out at sea, than photos of trash in the water and see our efforts as an interim very minor assist with a very major problem.

@BoyanSlat Agree we must think of problems as things to be solved, but we must find the cause(a) then evaluate solutions with an eye to finding solutions that don’t create other serious problems including for the environment, which historicallyhas been ignored by industry w/o oversight .

By default, we seem inclined to think of problems in terms of struggles (good vs bad, government vs the public, nature vs technology). We should seek to rise above this instinct, instead seeing problems as nothing more than things to be solved.

@priceyharrison Way to #Paddleoutplastic 👍🏽

Some of the (mostly) #plastic trash from this week’s rows, including a dirty diaper (really not cool). We can and must do better. ⁦@PadleOutPlastic⁩ #BreakFreeFromPlastic #ActOnClimate

And just like that

"the L.A. Regional Water Quality Control Board adopted a protective fireworks display permit...which requires new best practices aimed at reducing #plastics and other pollution that could fall into oceans or marinas from fireworks displays." @grace_2e latimes.com/california/sto…

📰Good news: REDUCED DEMAND for #plasticpollution packaging in EU is driving polluters to CUT PLASTIC PRODUCTION📉 Let's all do @PlasticFreeJuly force plastic producers to cut production around the world! If we don't buy it, they won't make it! packagingeurope.com/news/weak-dema…