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The Marine Conservation Society Needs You to Help Stop the Plastic Tide!
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) says “The pressure is working!” In the past few weeks since they started this campaign, more and more companies and individuals have joined the unstoppable fight against single use plastics. But they’re not done yet. The MCS is now gathering signatures to continue the campaign to get even more bars, restaurants and fast food chains involved in a pledge to ditch single use plastics.
MCS are using a set of graphic images to get their message across that demonstrate the issue in a simple way – “Would you care more if it was you?”
Thanks to public pressure and increased awareness, in the last month:
- Michael Gove has suggested plastic straws could be banned post-Brexit
- The BBC has announced they will ban single-use plastics by 2020
- The Queen has banned single-use plastics on Royal estates
- Scotland has announced a plan to ban plastic straws by next year
- Asda will scrap single-use carrier bags
- Marriott, London City Airport and Eurostar will stop using plastic straws
- All Bar One, JD Wetherspoon, Costa Coffee, Pizza Express and Wagamama will phase out throwaway items
And the list goes on…!
And it’s all thanks to the work of people like you, tirelessly demanding from companies to stop this madness.
But the MCS needs your help for another push. Bars, restaurants and fast food chains are in a position to influence a large scale change in the mindset of our throwaway society.
Sign now so that they can deliver this message to all the companies who haven’t acted yet.
It is time to put a STOP to this ongoing environmental disaster. Act now. If you have signed already, please tell others.
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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