Raise awareness and remove lids before recycling
About Lidsoff.org
A whopping 91% of plastic is NOT recycled. Billions of tons of plastic have been made over the past decades, and much of it is becoming trash and litter.
Born in NYC and currently living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, I am a 13 year old girl pursuing my passion and raising awareness for the problems in our oceans. I walk the beach and find more and more plastic on each visit. I want our oceans to stay healthy because I love the water and I want to find shells not plastic. My mission is to raise awareness about taking lids off of bottles and recycled items so that they get recycled. Many companies go out of business or don't recycle items that have lids attached. Help me, help these companies stay in business and protect our oceans and planet. Join us! The oceans are throwing up PLASTIC!!! Help us, help the planet.
Raise awareness
Humans buy 1 million plastic bottles per minute around the globe.
Since every municipality has its own recycling rules, the rules get confusing around recycling. Check with your municipality to see if they want the lid on or off bottles when recycling them.
The ring of plastic on the neck of the bottle is usually ok to leave on the bottle as it gets crushed with the bottle.
We need a common recycling standard not only in the US but also around the world. It shouldn't be so complicated!
Spread the word. Practice better habits. Reduce trading waste. When items are not recycled properly it often gets sent to another country which only creates a bigger problem down the line.
Understand that each time we recycle a bottle incorrectly we are not helping the environment. Join the movement and facilitate awareness and recycling.
We all benefit.
Junior Miami Waterkeepers Ambassador, Plastic Ocean Project, Big Blue Ocean CleanUp, Captain Planet Foundation and Heal The Planet
Thank you to Miami Waterkeepers, Plasticoceanproject.org, Bigblueoceancleanup, Captain Planet Foundation and Healtheplanet.com for recognizing me as a
Global Ambassador, Ambassador, Juior Ambassador & Young Planet Leader.
and for helping make the video for this site.
https://www.miamiwaterkeeper.org/jobs
https://www.plasticoceanproject.org/global-ambassadors.html
https://bigblueoceancleanup.org
https://healtheplanet.com/blog/lidsoff-org/
https://captainplanetfoundation.org
We will be joining other groups and participating in awareness events. Please join our mailing list to keep up to date with the news on oceans, recycling and our organization.
Females In The Natural Sciences Program
I was selected to participate in the Females in Natural Sciences "FINS" Shark tagging program through the University of Miami. I was lucky to head out for fun filled days of scientific research and was able to participate in catching, measuring and tagging sharks with the team who taught us all so much! Thank you!