Surfrider Foundation and the Pledge Against Plastic

Have you checked out Surfrider Foundation’s web site lately? You should anyway, as it is chock full of information and environmental activism goodness. I doubly recommend it this week, however, as the site has launched a new initiative in their Action Network section: a Plastics Pledge, in the hopes of lessening one of the biggest pollution factors effecting our beaches today (and everyone else’s beaches as well, to be perfectly honest).

Plastic is forever, with virtually every piece of petroleum based plastic ever made still in existence. That’s why it’s so critical to our oceans and beaches that we dramatically reduce our use of plastics, especially single-use plastics, starting today.

You can make a difference for our world’s oceans, waves and beaches — pledge to rise above plastics today.

As of one minute ago, 2,148 have signed the pledge, and I urge you to do the same. Obviously don’t sign it if you don’t intend to meet its demands — all very impossible things, of course, like using reusable bags for shopping and using filters and reusable bottles rather than single-use water bottles — but in this day and age, how can anyone afford not to meet them?

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