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05/09/2026

Thousands of people gathered for the Festival of Whales to celebrate one of the most incredible migrations on Earth. 🐋

But while the parade honored whales and ocean life, our team with walked the route picking up the plastic and trash left behind along the way.

Because loving whales isn’t just about watching them.
It’s about protecting the ocean they depend on.
Every plastic bottle, food wrapper, fishing line, and piece of debris that enters the environment can eventually make its way into the sea.
Marine animals mistake plastic for food, become entangled in debris, and are forced to survive in increasingly polluted waters.
An estimated 13 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year.
If we truly care about whales, dolphins, sea turtles, and the life beneath the waves, protecting them has to go beyond admiration.
It has to become action.
Thank you to everyone who showed up, cleaned up, and helped make a difference. 🌎♻️

I felt a great disturbance in the Force…As if millions of pieces of plastic suddenly appeared, and continue to every sin...
05/04/2026

I felt a great disturbance in the Force…

As if millions of pieces of plastic suddenly appeared, and continue to every single year.

The balance is off. Not in a galaxy far away… but here in our oceans.

So we build.

Not Jedi. Not Sith.
Just machines with a purpose: find it, collect it, recycle it.

Restoring balance one piece at a time.

May the 4th be with you.

At the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a whale, an albatross, a jellyfish, and a sea turtle tell the same story through very diff...
05/02/2026

At the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a whale, an albatross, a jellyfish, and a sea turtle tell the same story through very different hands.

The whale flows with motion, shaped from reclaimed plastic by Sayaka Ganz.

Nearby, an albatross and sea turtle stand assembled from ocean debris all part of the Art for the environment exhibit at the , built by a global community of artists and volunteers.

Other pieces in the space, including delicate forms made from PET plastic, reflect the work of artists like Gulnur Ozdaglar transforming discarded material into something almost alive.

Different artists.
Different methods.
Same material.

Every piece here started as waste.
Collected, reshaped, and given a second life.

But out in the ocean, that same plastic is still telling a very different story.

02/19/2026

Can you spot the octopus? 👀🐙

A California two spot octopus spotted in the rocks below during one of our cleanups at Dana Point Harbor.

Kids were shouting “OCTOPUS!” in pure excitement, a moment they’ll probably never forget.

Just below them is the world we’re working to protect.

Minutes earlier, we had pulled plastic and debris out of this exact spot. The same trash that quietly slips into the water can end up in the home of animals like this.

This is why we do what we do.

Not just to remove plastic
but to protect the life that’s still here, holding on beneath the surface. 🌊♻️

01/20/2026

Every 12.5 seconds, the equivalent weight of an African elephant enters the ocean as plastic.

Current scientific estimates indicate that over 13 million metric tons of plastic pollution enter the ocean every year. That averages to roughly 25,000 kilograms every minute.
A fully grown African elephant weighs approximately 4,000–6,000 kilograms. At that rate, the ocean receives the equivalent weight of one African elephant every twelve to fifteen seconds, continuously, day after day.

Once plastic reaches the ocean, it does not biodegrade. It fragments into smaller and smaller pieces, disperses with currents, settles into sediments, and enters marine food webs. Some of it washes back onto shore. Some of it sinks. Much of it remains out of sight floating in the vast blue ocean.

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