Donate To Stop Plastic Pollution

If there is a poster species for the worldwide epidemic of plastic pollution, it’s sea turtles. The mothers swim through islands of plastic on their migrations and crawl through plastic to find their spots to nest on beaches. Nests are impacted by toxic microplastic particles and hatchlings crawl back through macroplastic on their way to the water. They confuse plastic bags and balloons for their favorite food, jellyfish. Straws can get stuck in their noses and plastic spoons stuck in their throat. They get caught in six pack rings and ghost fishing gear. It’s inescapable.

SEE Turtles believes the long-term solution is ending single use plastic. But even if all plastic production was to stop today, millions of tons would still be floating in the ocean, impacting sea turtles, other ocean wildlife, and humans. We will advocate for ending the use of plastic through our platforms while searching for ways to help get this waste out of sea turtle habitat, in ways that support conservation efforts and local communities and reusing this waste into useful products.

OUR PLASTIC CAMPAIGN

SEE Turtles has been educating people about the threat of plastic waste since our founding in 2008.

Our campaign focuses on:

• Working with conservation organizations around the world to reduce plastic in sea turtle habitats.

• Advocating for less plastic use. We encourage people to reduce plastic at home while advocating for governments and businesses to take strong actions to reduce the creation of plastic.