Motivation to choose to refuse single use and other plastic items…
“Between 2013 and 2015, I sailed around the world in a small catamaran. I sailed in the Indian Ocean and there, clearly, I sailed in plastic waste for nearly two months. It was a shock. Sometimes I had to stop 40 times a day because the waste was stuck in my rudders, in my daggerboards. I had been lucky enough to do that same circumnavigation as a child, and when I talk about it with my parents, they tell me they never had to pick up a piece of plastic waste in the sea.”
Yvan Bourgnon, Founder, The SeaCleaners
You can help by:
- Taking your own re-usable cup for drinks.
- Taking containers from home when you are out and have leftovers.
- Not using cling wrap at home.
- Taking your own shopping bags.
- Say no to straws and plastic cutlery.
Felicity Maher
Sustainability Officer
