OCG | Ocean Cleanup Group

The non-profit search engine that's saving marine life by cleaning the ocean from plastic waste.

Over 100,000 pounds of plastic removed so far!

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Whales and Dolphins are among the most affected species by plastic pollution.

Given the enormous size of some whales’ mouths, they may unintentionally ingest plastic debris along with the fish they are engulfing in the water column.

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As one of the most common types of single-use plastic, or plastic products that are generally used only one time and then thrown away, straws are one of the culprits of unnecessary plastic pollution.

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Littering, storm winds, and poor waste management all contribute to the accumulation of marine trash, 80% of which comes from sources on land.
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Do you know that 73% of beach litter worldwide is plastic?
The litter includes filters from cigarette butts, bottles, bottle caps, food wrappers, grocery bags, and polystyrene containers...
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Things our cleanup team has collected during the latest cleanup. Mostly are plastic bags, or pieces of plastic bags. They were literally everywhere, from floating in the ocean to lying around on the beach, hidden under the sand or tangled on tree branches.
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Dolphins lover 🐬 ❤️
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One of the things our cleanup crew has been pulling out of the ocean and coastlines - Fishing nets (Ghost nets)!
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Entanglement of marine life is a global problem that results in the death of hundreds of thousands of marine mammals and sea turtles worldwide every year.
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This is the reality! How could we do this to our one and only ocean?
The plastic debris floating on the ocean surface accounts for only 5% of all the plastic trash dumped into the sea, the other 95% is submerged beneath the surface.
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Have a nice weekend everyone!
Are you a dolphin lover? 🐬
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People are turning the environment into a landfill and it’s mainly the animals who are being harmed!
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Every year contaminants destroy millions of animals, from birds and fish and to other aquatic species.
Nearly 700 animals are known to have been harmed by plastics, including the endangered ones.
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This is truly heartbreaking 💔
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Among all the threats to the marine environment, the threat from plastic is one of the most dangerous ones.
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Sea turtle populations have been seriously reduced worldwide through a number of human influences.
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Here, there and everywhere. You can easily see all those small plastic fragments and pellets on the beach where our team’s doing our cleanup misson!
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Hundreds of marine turtles die every year after becoming entangled in rubbish in the oceans and on beaches. They also suffered serious wounds leading to maiming, amputation or choking. Others that survived were forced to drag discarded rubbish or debris with them.
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4.5 trillion cigarette butts — the biggest man-made ocean contaminant — are littered each year.
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These animals don’t have voices so we’ve got to speak up for them.
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OCG’s daily cleanup mission.
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Nearly every piece of plastic ever manufactured still exists today – and when it enters the ocean, its effects can be felt for centuries.
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