No Plastics Please

Community beach cleans - how we started no plastic please

Along with local communities, sustainable groups like The Green Team, supporters like Wanderlightly and local supporting business's, Living Ocean organises and takes part in beach cleans.

All the material gathered is sorted and logged onto the Tangaroa Blue database according to subject and type then recycled where possible. Large plastic is sorted and logged as either macro or micro plastic. Macro plastics are logged from tidal zone all the way back to the rear of the dunes. Micro plastics with a size of less than 5.0mm are logged in a control zone

 Education - We help all levels, teaching ocean wise activities

Barrenjoey High School installs filtered Water Fountain

"Thanks to the efforts of Living Ocean and our students we are now a ‘plastic bottle free school’ and the owners of a sensational Culligan filtered water fountain. Early in 2012 Student Leaders met with representatives from Living Ocean to discuss methods of reducing plastic waste at Barrenjoey High School. Living Ocean delivered a compelling presentation on the very damaging impact plastic bottles has on the environment. Barrenjoey students were determined to do something about the tons of discarded bottles floating around in our oceans and filling our ‘land-fill’ sites."
- Ian Bowsher, (Principal – Barrenjoey High School) 24th October 2012.

High Schools & Tertiary

We actively shared a campaign with a school community to introduce a water fountain onto the campus so students could use re useable water bottles rather than throw away single use plastic bottles in the canteen. A movement 'to be seen with re useable bottles' was established.

We also hold talks at schools and clean ups. We have a team of local idenentaties and experts who support sustainability, no single use plastic, recycling and low impact topics. Supporting corporations also supply product for raising funds for related school projects.

Primary Schools & Kindergartens

Living Ocean also has a template for lower age school groups that is tailored to fun activities like recycling collected plastics into art and other engaging projects. It's important also for children to associate themselves with how everyday items can become a problem for our oceans and wildlife.

Videos - Activists & Scientists

Visuals are a powerful tool and Living Ocean has created a video channel called Wet Shorts. With a set of video equipment granted to us by Canon Australia for winning an environmental award in 2016 we add regular Instagram clip interviews of passionate ocean 'warriors' and carers.