Did you know that crude oil is needed to create plastic? And did you know that it takes about a quarter of the oil content of a plastic bottle… to create that same bottle?
Around the world, more than a million plastic bottles are bought every minute. By using a reusable water bottle, you could prevent an average of 156 plastic bottles from reaching our oceans annually.
Is Less Plastic’s Solution Fantastic? Give people access to free water refill stations! And not just one or two. Everywhere in the city, in shops, hotels, bars and, as far as we’re concerned, there’s no excuse to buy that plastic problem anymore. Free yourself from buying single use plastic bottles! We are in a rapid reusable revolution! This project began with 25 water stations, and seeks affordable, safe and acceptable physical access to drinking water for the local community of Mahahual, since it is a fundamental right for health and, above all, to seek alternatives to reduce the use of disposable bottles.
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Many plastics that wash up on our beach are non recyclable. For this reason, the initiative to create art with fishing nets and flip-flops, mainly, arises. However, creativity has no limits. Sometimes volunteers let their imagination run wild to create something tangible and visual with the plastic waste that arrives through the ocean currents.
They are difficult to detect, but it is a necessary job and a responsibility that we have to carry after producing them. These are tiny microplastic pellets that form the basis of other plastic objects. Due to spills, monitoring, and manufacturing plants, they have begun to appear in our waterways, rivers, and oceans.
We are the first plastic cleanup operation in Mexico to use data! Why? Because we would like to understand, and show, the depth and scope of the problem. Our working method involves timed cleanings in a given beach area, where we go in search of PET (plastic bottles), HDPE (dense plastics), glass, shoes, flip-flops, ropes, synthetic fibers and waste in general, then the waste is weighed, cleaned, separated and stored in our facilities.