Guest post from Tom Szaky – Waste Reduction Week
Guest post from Tom Szaky in promotion of Waste Reduction Week citing Plastic Oceans Foundation Canada as an organization “rethinking plastic” and inspiring behavioral change year-round. Go Circular this Waste Reduction Week, and Beyond Canada’s Waste Reduction Week...
Plastic Oceans to participate in a screening of “A Plastic Ocean” with Ridge Meadows Recycling Society
Plastic Oceans Foundation Canada to participate in the screening of "A Plastic Ocean" with Ridge Meadows Recycling Society – www.rmrecycling.org Monday, October 15 at 7pm at the Maple Ridge Council Chambers – 11995 Haney Place, Maple Ridge, BC The event will be...
We welcome the following new additions to our team
Plastic Oceans Foundation Canada is pleased to announce recent additions to our team. Tim Stephenson - Ambassador Odessa Ingarfield - Board of Directors Max Wensel - Board of Directors Daniel Rotman - Advisory Panel
Plastic Oceans Foundation Canada supports UpGyres’ PLASTIKA REPARABILIS CHALLENGE
On April 19, 2018, UpGyres launched the PLASTIKA REPARABILIS CHALLENGE to the entire plastics value chain. The Plastika Reparabilis Challenge 'PRC' is a synergistic and symbiotic global crowdsourcing collaboration to eliminate plastic waste before it happens. The aim...
Eliminating the Idea of (Plastic) Waste by Tom Szaky, CEO and founder of TerraCycle
This #PlasticFreeJuly, pledge to see plastic for what it is: nearly-indestructible, highly polluted and far from disposable. The bodies of our smartphones, the synthetics in our clothing, the pieces of our furniture and nearly every aspect of our lives today are...
Tim Stephenson and his students at a Langley BC Secondary School are solving the environmental issue of “Single Use Plastic Bags” by turning them into “Plastic Bricks”
Hello: My name is Tim Stephenson. I teach science in the Vancouver area. I have started a strong plastic pollution awareness program at my school. There is clearly an issue that is trending all over the world…plastic pollution. Where I live in the Pacific Northwest,...
Plastic Oceans Receives Canadian Charity Status
We are pleased to announce that Plastic Oceans Foundation Canada is now registered as a Canadian Charity effective April 16th, 2018 Our Tax Registration # is: 74084 6894 RR001
Joining Forces With the Canadian Wildlife Federation
Plastic Oceans Canada helping to #StopSingleUse Plastic Oceans Canada is proud to have joined forces with the Canadian Wildlife Federation to raise awareness and activate Canadians to “Rethink Plastic” with their petition to stop single use plastics. We are the...
10 THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT “A PLASTIC OCEAN”
From our friends at Nada, a container free grocery store, a great blog post about "A Plastic Ocean." In 2011, journalist, filmmaker and adventurer Craig Leeson set out to make a documentary about the elusive blue whale. While shooting off the coast of Sri Lanka, what...
Craig Leeson: My Mind-Blowing U.N. Experience
Business class: that holy grail of long-distance flying. For most people like myself it’s a section of the plane you walk through whilst navigating to the tiny piece of real estate at the back of the plane that will deliver hours of torture into the foreseeable...