{"id":1832,"date":"2018-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/1832\/this-is-where-plastic-goes-when-you-throw-it-away\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T04:48:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T04:48:29","slug":"this-is-where-plastic-goes-when-you-throw-it-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/this-is-where-plastic-goes-when-you-throw-it-away\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Where Plastic Goes When You Throw It \u2018Away\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='p4descriptive_paragraph'>Throwing single-use plastic &#8220;away&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean it actually disappears \u2014 it ends up in our oceans and smothering our beaches with profound and lasting effects to everything in its wake. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image size-large p4featured_image'><img src='https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/e9c73b98-gp0stsm12_pressmedia.jpg' alt='Plastic Clean Up on Kaho'olawe' \/><figcaption class='wp-element-caption'>Greenpeace partnered with the Protect Kaho&#8217;olawe &#8216;Ohana (PKO) and Kaho&#8217;olawe Island Reserve Commission (KIRC) to do a beach cleanup and brand audit at Kanapou beach on Kaho&#8217;olawe Island, Hawaii. Greenpeace Ocean Director John Hocevar near plastic trash piles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve spent the past two weeks in Hawaii with the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise. As nice as it was to have a chance to come to Oahu for a series of meetings, presentations, and receptions with our local partners, it\u2019s our visit to Kaho&#8217;olawe that I was really been looking forward to. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The smallest of Hawaii\u2019s eight main islands, Kaho&#8217;olawe is uninhabited. The island is dedicated to Kanaloa, the god of the sea, and still considered sacred by Native Hawaiians. But that didn\u2019t stop the U.S. military from using Kaho&#8217;olawe for target practice for half a century. In more recent years, the island became a rallying point for the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, triggering protests and legal actions that ultimately forced an end to the bombing in the 1990s. Since then, Kaho&#8217;olawe has been closed to commercial use and set aside for cultural and educational purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, the island has more challenges in store. Hawai&#8217;i is only a few hundred miles from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/great-pacific-garbage-patch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great Pacific Garbage Patch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an area twice the size of Texas where currents have concentrated plastic pollution from all over the Pacific Ocean. When the winds and currents shift, enormous amounts of debris can be dumped on beaches facing the Garbage Patch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaho&#8217;olawe is particularly vulnerable, and because it is uninhabited, the trash really builds up.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69895\" style=\"width: 809px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69895\" class=\" wp-image-69895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/97a9d7ff-gp0stsm0c_medium_res_with_credit_line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-69895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plastics and trash piled up on the beach after washing up onshore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We went ashore with representatives of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.protectkahoolaweohana.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protect Kaho&#8217;olawe Ohana<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Kaho&#8217;olawe Island Reserve Commission (KIRC), and Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among them were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greenpeaceusa09\/43679163690\/in\/album-72157701164170581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cody<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, carrying an offering of breadfruit for Ku and Lono (the gods of land and agriculture); <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greenpeaceusa09\/44611723815\/in\/album-72157701164170581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andre<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who used to work on the island and set this trip in motion; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greenpeaceusa09\/31653181408\/in\/album-72157701164170581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lopaka<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who facilitated our permission to visit; and and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greenpeaceusa09\/30584449317\/in\/album-72157701164170581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eric<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the military vet who is atoning for his role in the bombing of Kaho&#8217;olawe by working to help keep people from being blown up by unexploded ordnance. (Despite the army having remediated a portion of the countless tons of bombs, mines, and ammunition dumped on the island, a considerable amount remains.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we approached the beach, we were horrified to see how much garbage there was covering the full length of the bay. The closer we got, the worse we could see it was. We circled up, and Lopaka led us in a quick briefing and prayer. He seemed shaken \u2014 there were three times as much trash as he\u2019d ever seen. We divided into groups and set off to start gathering piles of fishing floats, nets, beverage cases, bottles, bottle caps, fishing traps, and other plastic debris.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69896\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69896\" class=\" wp-image-69896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/92a8fb92-gp0stsm2v_medium_res_with_credit_line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-69896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greenpeace&#8217;s Lisa Ramsden surveys trash on the beach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We all spent the better part of the day lugging heavy debris off the beach and onto boats, heading through the surf to bring it back to the ship. Load after load, two and a half tons in the end, we started to make some progress under the hot sun \u2014 but only on our narrow stretch of beach. We couldn\u2019t help but see that farther down the beach in both directions there was far more garbage than we\u2019d be able to remove, even if we had a week or two. All of us were feeling sad and angry, as well as sore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We found a baby black tip reef shark right at the shoreline, nearly decapitated by the nylon net wrapped around its neck. We picked up hundreds of hagfish traps, lost or discarded by fishermen thousands of miles away. We struggled with buoys the size of bathtubs, and baskets, buckets, and nets half buried in the fine auburn colored sand. We picked up toothbrushes and lighters, straws and forks.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69899\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69899\" class=\"wp-image-69899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/37544473-gp0stslw6_medium_res_with_credit_line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-69899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dead shark hangs from its entanglement in abandoned fishing nets on the beach during the first day of the beach clean up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We sifted microplastics and fragments out of the sand, watching in despair as more flowed in on each wave. At the end of the day, we all felt exhausted and more sad about the scale of the problem than positive about our contribution. Rougher weather was predicted, so we were afraid that we were going to have to leave the beach looking little better than we found it.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69900\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69900\" class=\"wp-image-69900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/f9bfe36c-gp0stsm1i_medium_res_with_credit_line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"643\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-69900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishing gear and microplastics mixed together on the beach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were able to go back for a second day, though, leaving the ship as the sun was just starting to rise. I started out focusing on picking up <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/news\/kahoolawe-polluted-staggering-amount-plastics-corporations-like-coca-cola-nestle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">branded trash that we could connect back to the companies that sold it<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slowly and surely, the beach started to be revealed as we carted away load after load of trash. So much of what I do is aimed at keeping things from getting worse \u2014 climate change, industrial fishing, offshore drilling, and mining \u2014 there was something immediately gratifying about being a small part of helping heal this sacred island. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It reminded me of visiting Tiritiri Matanga Island, a wildlife sanctuary about 18 miles off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand. The island was stripped of trees and used for sheep farming until the government opted not to renew the farmers\u2019 lease. Today, the island is one of the most important habitats for several endangered bird species, including some that live almost nowhere else in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Americans have successfully convinced our leaders to protect some spectacular places, and our network of parks, monuments and sanctuaries are rightly a source of pride. Do we have the combination of long-term vision and the volunteer spirit that could turn an island from a sheep farm into an ecological wonder? I\u2019m not sure, but I have a feeling that this is one of the things that will be needed from us in the coming years. I hope to see you there.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69901\" style=\"width: 812px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69901\" class=\"wp-image-69901\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/b8fc3c2a-gp0stsm38_medium_res_with_credit_line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-69901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the second day beach clean up crew: Pictured standing from left: Yordan Georgiev, Ryan Schleeter, Lisa Ramsden, Davey Khoury, Lopaka Aiwohi, Kate Melges, Eric Brundage, Hannah Strange, Rebecca Mattos, Pearl Wu, Katie Flynn-Jambeck, and Cody Nemet. Kneeling from left: Harmony Lambert; Jason Sanada, Ka&#8217;apuni Aiwohi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even more urgently, can we rise to the challenge and urge corporations and governments to make sure that we stop producing single-use plastics? I think we\u2019ve got this one! <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/greenpeace.org\/breakfreefromplastic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Are you with me?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve spent the past two weeks in Hawaii with the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise. 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