Our life is inseparable from a particular material called plastic. Since its invention, it is one of the cheapest, durable material that can be used for many aspects in our life. From our takeaway dinners to the straws we are using to drink our soda from McDonald's, almost everything contains plastic materials. It is a beautiful sea, until one day, Caroline Power took a picture of the sea today and shock the world with it.
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“THIS HAS TO STOP. Think about your daily lives,” she wrote on Facebook. “How did you take your food to go last time you ate out? How was your last street food served?”
“Chances are it was styrofoam and served with a plastic fork and then put in a plastic bag. Do you still use plastic garbage bags?” Powers continued. “Plastic soda bottles? Ziplock bags? Plastic wrap on your food? Do you buy toilet paper that comes wrapped in plastic instead of paper? Do you put your fruit and veggies in produce bags at the grocery?”
“The Roatan Marine Park is our local non-profit organization that runs numerous conservation programs including an anti-plastic campaign and environmental education programs,” she wrote in an email.
Caroline also encourages readers of this story to donate to local non-profit organizations that combat plastic pollution and fight to protect marine life.
Ms. Power says she hopes her photos will encourage others to “make changes to their habits and daily lives to help protect and conserve this planet”.
“It was also motivating; I drastically increased efforts to reduce my environmental footprint after seeing that,” she said. “I hope the photos will inspire people to do the same.”
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It is covered in plastic waste for 2-5 miles wide, floating and drifting. This huge amount of pollution is certainly a concern that we all equally share. Throwing out a single box of Styrofoam may not seem like a big deal, but this picture has to make us think twice the next time we want to do that. It won't just be a single plastic box, but the sea, nature, fish, and life that we have to consider as well.
Power raises awareness by diverting the payment for this picture to NGOs. She is also encouraging us all to show a little support to this by donating to our local NGOs.
After snapping the picture, Powers posted them to social media along with a plea for help:
“THIS HAS TO STOP. Think about your daily lives,” she wrote on Facebook. “How did you take your food to go last time you ate out? How was your last street food served?”
“Chances are it was styrofoam and served with a plastic fork and then put in a plastic bag. Do you still use plastic garbage bags?” Powers continued. “Plastic soda bottles? Ziplock bags? Plastic wrap on your food? Do you buy toilet paper that comes wrapped in plastic instead of paper? Do you put your fruit and veggies in produce bags at the grocery?”
The activist’s primary objective is to raise awareness about the world’s polluted oceans. It is for this reason that she has foregone payment for the images and, instead, has asked news outlets and publications to donate to the Roatan Marine Park.
“The Roatan Marine Park is our local non-profit organization that runs numerous conservation programs including an anti-plastic campaign and environmental education programs,” she wrote in an email.
Caroline also encourages readers of this story to donate to local non-profit organizations that combat plastic pollution and fight to protect marine life.
Caroline Power:
To see something that I care so deeply for being killed, slowly choked to death by human waste was devastating,” Powers told The Telegraph. “This is a developed nation (first world) problem as well.”
Ms. Power says she hopes her photos will encourage others to “make changes to their habits and daily lives to help protect and conserve this planet”.
“It was also motivating; I drastically increased efforts to reduce my environmental footprint after seeing that,” she said. “I hope the photos will inspire people to do the same.”
