It’s estimated that approximately 171 trillion pieces of plastic are floating inour oceansaround the globe, not including the amount that has sunk beneath the surface.
While everyone is still trying to find the best way to combatplastic pollution, YouTubers Mark Rober and Mr Beast teamed up with the two of the largest ocean conservation organizations in the US, Ocean Conservancy and the Ocean Cleanup, and created a fundraising campaign named ‘TeamSeas’. They successfully encouraged millions to donate and cleaned up 17,000 tons of ocean trash.
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The project TeamSeas was launched in October 2021 and since then has connected contentcreatorsfrom 145 countries with more than 1 billion followers to clean up our oceans and rivers.
All collected funds were distributed to the two non-profit organizations: The Ocean Cleanup and Ocean Conservancy.
“TeamSeas fits perfectly into our mission to rid the oceans of plastic and we’re honored to be part of this campaign. The donations raised from this campaign will help us implement more Interceptors around the world and curb the flow of riverine plastic into the oceans,” explained Boyan Slat, Founder and CEO at The Ocean Cleanup. “Our mission is one of global proportion, therefore it’s crucial that we amplify our message.”
Over 1000 influencers from 145 countries joined TeamSeas’ initiative
Since the official launch of the campaign, it has raised over 24 million, with the largest donation from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who gave $1 million to the project, which brought even more public attention to the campaign.
As of 2022, TeamTrees had already planted more than 23,000,000 trees around the world, including the United States, Canada, Haiti, Nicaragua, Kenya, Madagascar, Indonesia, and Nepal.
“We are incredibly proud to be the official planting partner for TeamTrees. Mr Beast, Mark, and hundreds of other YouTube creators shared our vision of building abetter worldthrough tree planting. They used their platforms to inspire more than half a million individuals to take action for our environment,” shared Dan Lambe, president of the Arbor Day Foundation, at the time.
“We took over the internet to plant 20 million trees and now 20 million trees are in the ground! This is more than just hashtag activism,” Donaldson added.
With the help of social media content, TeamSeas raised awareness about the importance of ridding the oceans of plastic
Maybe such initiatives as TeamSeas are not a silver bullet for global plastic pollution and climate change, yet it’s becoming crucial to take collective action in order to make a remarkablepositive impacton our planet and save it for future generations.
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