Project Kaisei founder Mary Crowley's Message from the Plastic Sea

Project Kaisei set off in a tall ship bound for the Pacific Garbage Patch in August 2009. What they found was a swirling plastic soup. Now back, Project Kaisei has joined with other organizations and government entities to ask for more responsibility from industry, requesting that products be "benign by design" and that companies follow the principal of Extended Producer Responsibility by considering the entire life cycle of their products and designing with reuse and recycling in mind.

Mary Crowley, founder of Project Kaisei has the following message for all of us:

"Everybody can be a part of the solution. We all have to pay attention to what we are using and what happens to our waste. But even more importantly, we have to demand creativity from industry to create products that are benign by design, products that are good for the earth, products that can be reused, recycled, products that use the technology and creativity that we have to be good for the earth. Now is the time. We must take action and join together to clean up the environment."

Check out Fake Plastic Fish (http://www.fakeplasticfish.com) for more information on how we all can live life with less plastic.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• plastic
• North Pacific Gyre
• Pacific Garbage Patch
• environment
• Project Kaisei
• ocean pollution
• ocean plastic