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Ocean Blue is urging Supermarkets to introduce plastic-free aisle to help save the ocean

6/29/2017

by Richard Arterbury

Plastic-free aisle to help save the ocean

Ocean Blue is requesting that supermarkets to create a plastic-free aisle.

"You can now buy Organic meat, Organic chicken, gluten-free, fat-free but you can't buy plastic-free" anything.

How is something so organic we feel it’s a must to wrap and destroy the organic product with oil filmed clear plastic containers or plastic film wrap?

Our nonprofit is encouraging supermarkets use wax free and just stop with the all your plastic.

While plastic is a relatively cheap material to produce, Ocean Blue is finding this is not cheap in the long run for anyone. It’s costing Ocean Blue thousands of dollars to pick up plastic on beaches and in our rivers. The wild thing is the stores are paying our nonprofit to pick up any of the trash they are promoting.

We ask for supermarkets that introduce at least one plastic-free aisle.
Every day eight million metric tonnes of plastic is dumped into oceans and it is estimated by 2050 there will be more plastic by weight in the sea than fish.

Some scientists believe plastics are having an impact on people's health as they become exposed to chemicals such as phthalate and BPA - an industrial chemical used to make plastics - which may cause cancer, metabolic and cognitive behavior disorders.
The main goal is aimed at reducing the amount of plastic waste that ends up in the world's seas. Reach in your back pocket and feel free to pay for the plastic pollution your store is producing and look at the marine wildlife animals you are harming! One Ocean One World but thousands of stores with thousands of plastic items sold every