Why Are We Doing This?
By: April, Josh Leah and Sydney
The Marine Team has been working hard to promote ocean sustainability and spread awareness regarding plastic pollution in our oceans. We feel it is important to remember why we chose to tackle this topic in the first place. Plastic constitutes for around 90% of all garbage floating on the surface of the ocean, with 46,000 pieces of plastic per square mile. It has been documented that due to this abundance of plastic pollution, 44 percent of all seabird species, 22 percent of cetaceans, all sea turtle species, and a growing list of fish species have been found with plastic in or around their bodies. These facts came as a shock to our group, and it inspired us to take action against this massive environmental issue. Although we are only four high school students and the issue at hand may seem dire, this never prevented us from believing we weren’t capable of making a difference. In order to follow through with our initial hope, we decided to focus on promoting UN Global Goal 14. With this, our movie buy-out and hashtag were created. What we are doing may seem insignificant compared to the size of the issue, but we have learned during this project that awareness is one of the greatest factors in making a change.
Update: Along with spreading an incredible amount of awareness among our community, we have raised a total of $195.20 in proceeds from our movie buy-out, for the WWF’s ocean sector. Thank you for all of your support and contributions in helping us hold this amazing event!
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