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I CARE

The movement against
plastics in the seas

The ocean begins with you.

More and more people want to change the way they handle plastics. It is now clear that we all need to use less plastics and dispose of our plastic waste properly. OceanCare’s  «I Care» campaign brings together people who want to make a difference.

JOIN THE #PLASTICDIET

The ocean and marine life are suffocating in plastic pollution.

Have you noticed how much plastic waste is generated in your household? Single-use plastics fills your shopping bag. It’s in your online order and even your clothes contain plastic materials. Only very little of the material is recycled. Plastics are incinerated or end up in the ocean as legacy for hundreds of years.

Here are a few facts on this subject

There are ~5.25 trillion plastic particles drifting in the ocean, weighing about as much as 2,150 blue whales.

Approx. 50% of all plastic ever made has been produced since the year 2000.

Around 9 million tonnes of plastic waste find their way into the ocean every year.

Depending on the region, only 1-15% of all discarded plastics are recycled worldwide.

Over 99% of plastic is made from fossil fuels.

In 2020, around 1.56 billion disposable protective masks will have found their way into the ocean.

Plastic threatens more than 800 species of marine life.

~2 million microplastic fibres are released from synthetic clothing per washing cycle.

Plastic debris has been found even at ocean depths of 10,000 metres.

One cosmetic tube can contain up to 350,000 microplastic particles.

Be part of the solution.

Did you know that only a few dozen companies produce the majority of the world’s plastic products?

If the plastic industry would reduce the production of virgin plastics, then the plastic flood could be stopped quickly. Unfortunately, companies put the blame on consumers. They claim that it is their customers who want plastic packaging.

I see.
Well, if that’s the case, then the solution is obvious. You are the solution. Because you can play a role in changing your demand.  

Send a strong signal to these companies that you have chosen reusable products and avoiding single-use plastics from your daily life. By doing so, you are supporting a clean environment and a clean ocean, and also protecting many animals that are suffering today because of plastics.

PETITION

Our nature is not a waste dump!
Stop unnecessary single-use plastics.

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SIGNATURES

Plastik Schweiz Bundeshaus

We call on the Swiss federal government: Stop shifting away your responsibility, but apply the instruments already in place within the Environmental Protection Act! Under this law, the Federal Council can ban the single-use plastic items, such as take-away items and plastic bags from the Swiss territory, independent of the material used, and can stop the sale of cosmetic and personal products containing microbeads in Switzerland.

GO TO PETITION

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Plastik Schweiz Bergsee

From a laggard to a leader: Switzerland needs to become a plastics champion

OceanCare is internationally committed to protecting the world's ocean. When it comes to plastics, this already begins at the organisation's headquarters: in Switzerland. The country is one of the world's leaders in plastic consumption. Microplastics also flows from inland waters into the sea via lakes and rivers. The Swiss government...
January 9, 2023
Plastik Schweiz Bundeshaus

Europe’s laggard – Switzerland cannot recycle its way out of its plastic problem

Switzerland has a significant plastic problem. The factual analysis in the OceanCare report "Plastic Matters" reveals sobering weaknesses: Switzerland consumes more plastic per capita than almost any other country in the world. Whether it is packaging waste and other disposable plastic or microplastic, the environmental damage caused by the ever-increasing...
January 9, 2023
Hochsee BBNJ Meereswelle

UNCLOS BBNJ – High Seas Treaty

International legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). The High Seas Treaty (commonly also referred to as the BBNJ-Treaty) is a once-in-a-generation opportunity that seeks to conserve...
January 3, 2023
Plastikmüll UNEA

First Global Plastics Treaty Intergovernmental Meeting Concludes With a Mix of High and Low Points

Punta del Este, Uruguay – The first intergovernmental committee meeting (INC-1) for an internationally legally binding instrument on plastic pollution convened by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) concluded with a mix of high and low moments, setting the stage for a two-year-long process that could result in one of...
December 5, 2022
Cleanup Friedrichshafen OceanCare

Switzerland has a plastic problem, and the majority of the Swiss population wants binding laws now

Switzerland has a plastics problem. That is the opinion of almost three quarters of the population. 25% even see it as a massive problem. OceanCare's decades of educational work and awareness raising efforts are having an effect: people are very concerned about plastics in the oceans – and this worries...
October 31, 2022
Meereswelle

Second UN Ocean Conference: Nations should look below the surface

Pressemitteilung zum Abschluss der UN Ocean Conference, 27th June – 1st July 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.The United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC), which took place in Lisbon from Monday, 27th June to 1st July, ends today with the adoption of its key output, a high-level political declaration. There was agreement that the...
July 1, 2022
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