PLASTICS & SUSTAINABILITY
Meet SOME OF OUR VOLUNTEERS & COLLABORATORS
These are some of the consultants for our No Plastic Please campaign.
Control of plastics entering our ocean systems and all food chains is the primary issue of our time.
Click on them to make contact for consultation or advice in their specialised fields, or ask us to assist.
Control of plastics entering our ocean systems and all food chains is the primary issue of our time.
Click on them to make contact for consultation or advice in their specialised fields, or ask us to assist.
GUY WILLIMENT
YOUTH ECO ACTION
SARAH TAIT
WANDERLIGHTLY LIVING
DR. JENN LAVERS
SEABIRDS & PLASTIC RESEARCH
PARRYS RAINES
CLIMATE GIRL
Dave Rastovich
PATAGONIA OCEANS
LAURAL
BOOMERANG BAGS
ALICE FORREST
PROTECT WHAT YOU LOVE
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ALLANA PEARCE
MICRO PLASTICS
BEN PLAYER
OCEAN PLASTICS
LUCY MURRAY
THE GREEN TEAM YOUTH
TIM SEATON
COASTAL ENVIRONMENT CENTRE
TOM & NICK CARROLL
SUSTAINABLE OCEANS
ANTHONY HILL
PLASTIC POLLUTION SOLUTIONS
CLAUDIA NEWMAN
MACRO & MICRO PLASTICS
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LILLI GEMMEL
SUSTAINABLE BLOGGER
ANGELA VAN BOXTEL
RECYCLE ARTIST
TIM SILVERWOOD
TAKE 3
DR. REECE HALTER
EARTHCAST SOS
BRUCE RAYMOND
SUSTAINABLE COMMERCE
SILKE STUCKENBROCK
TWO HANDS PROJECT
Zoe KEMP
MACRO&MICRO PLASTICS
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JACK McCoy
NO PLASTIC PLEASE
HEIDI TAYLOR
TANGAROA BLUE DIRECTOR
HARRISON KOCH
SUSTAINABLE FOOD
BARTON LYNCH
HURLEY ECO
SALLY GOLE
NO PLASTIC PLEASE
MEGAN BROADFIELD
ORGANICS FOOD & WINE
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COMMUNITY BEACH CLEANS - HOW WE STARTED NO PLASTIC PLEASE
Along with local communities, sustainable groups like The Green Team, supporters like Wanderlightly and local supporting business's, Living Ocean organises and takes part in beach cleans.
All the material gathered is sorted and logged onto the Tangaroa Blue database according to subject and type then recycled where possible. Large plastic is sorted and logged as either macro or micro plastic. Macro plastics are logged from tidal zone all the way back to the rear of the dunes. Micro plastics with a size of less than 5.0mm are logged in a control zone
All the material gathered is sorted and logged onto the Tangaroa Blue database according to subject and type then recycled where possible. Large plastic is sorted and logged as either macro or micro plastic. Macro plastics are logged from tidal zone all the way back to the rear of the dunes. Micro plastics with a size of less than 5.0mm are logged in a control zone
COMMUNITY BEACH CLEAN AVALON BEACH WITH LIVING OCEAN, THE GREEN TEAM, WANDERLIGHTLY & PRODJUICE
MACRO PLASTICS
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RECYCLED BEACH PLASTIC AS ART
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MICRO PLASTICS
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EDUCATION - WE HELP ALL LEVELS, TEACHING OCEANWISE ACTIVITIES
Barrenjoey High School installs filtered Water Fountain
"Thanks to the efforts of Living Ocean and our students we are now a ‘plastic bottle free school’ and the owners of a sensational Culligan filtered water fountain. Early in 2012 Student Leaders met with representatives from Living Ocean to discuss methods of reducing plastic waste at Barrenjoey High School. Living Ocean delivered a compelling presentation on the very damaging impact plastic bottles has on the environment. Barrenjoey students were determined to do something about the tons of discarded bottles floating around in our oceans and filling our ‘land-fill’ sites."
Ian Bowsher
(Principal – Barrenjoey High School) 24th October 2012.
"Thanks to the efforts of Living Ocean and our students we are now a ‘plastic bottle free school’ and the owners of a sensational Culligan filtered water fountain. Early in 2012 Student Leaders met with representatives from Living Ocean to discuss methods of reducing plastic waste at Barrenjoey High School. Living Ocean delivered a compelling presentation on the very damaging impact plastic bottles has on the environment. Barrenjoey students were determined to do something about the tons of discarded bottles floating around in our oceans and filling our ‘land-fill’ sites."
Ian Bowsher
(Principal – Barrenjoey High School) 24th October 2012.
L to R: Ben Player, Parrys Raines, Tom Carroll, Jack McCoy, Barton Lynch, Jo Lynas, Carol Newman, Robbi Newman
HIGH SCHOOLS & TERTIARY
We actively shared a campaign with a school community to introduce a water fountain onto the campus so students could use re useable water bottles rather than throw away single use plastic bottles in the canteen. A movement 'to be seen with re useable bottles' was established.
We also hold talks at schools and clean ups. We have a team of local idenentaties and experts who support sustainability, no single use plastic, recycling and low impact topics. Supporting corporations also supply product for raising funds for related school projects.
We actively shared a campaign with a school community to introduce a water fountain onto the campus so students could use re useable water bottles rather than throw away single use plastic bottles in the canteen. A movement 'to be seen with re useable bottles' was established.
We also hold talks at schools and clean ups. We have a team of local idenentaties and experts who support sustainability, no single use plastic, recycling and low impact topics. Supporting corporations also supply product for raising funds for related school projects.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS & KINDERGARTENS
Living Ocean also has a template for lower age school groups that is tailored to fun activities like recycling collected plastics into art and other engaging projects. It's important also for children to associate themselves with how everyday items can become a problem for our oceans and wildlife.
Living Ocean also has a template for lower age school groups that is tailored to fun activities like recycling collected plastics into art and other engaging projects. It's important also for children to associate themselves with how everyday items can become a problem for our oceans and wildlife.
SCREENINGS - documentaries at clubs and cinemas
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Living Ocean has a long history of bringing movies and documentaries to the community and screening them in halls and clubs so locals can share the knowledge and inspiration of the producers and film makers. Some of the subject matter is often confronting however the truth is a light towards resolution of the impact the human species is inflicting upon itself and all life on the planet. Racing extinction for instance, showed positive initiatives for how a problem can actually be an opportunity to move forward and become a positive benefit rather than a negative liability. Knowledge is power.
VIDEOS - activists & SCIENTISTS
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Visuals are a powerful tool and Living Ocean has created a video channel called Wet Shorts. With a set of video equipment granted to us by Canon Australia for winning an environmental award in 2016 we add regular Instagram clip interviews of passionate ocean 'warriors' and carers.
POSTERS AND MEDIA - AWARENESS ADS
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Ads created for Surfing World magazine to run FOC as public service to help save our oceans.
World famous surfers know the oceans are highly vulnerable.
World famous surfers know the oceans are highly vulnerable.
"There is no place in the ocean, even the most remote part of the Pacific Ocean, as far away as you can get, where you won’t find plastic floating on the surface of the sea. That’s a tragedy and it’s our fault. Plastic is long-living and we can’t get rid of it, yet we are polluting the world with it.
Dreadful."
-Sir David Attenborough
Dreadful."
-Sir David Attenborough
IMAGE BY MICHAEL SIMMONS
