We hope that everybody enjoyed and found value in celebrating our oceans on and around World Oceans Day 2018. It was inspiring to see so many individuals and organizations working together to make a difference.

Our own team was busy on four continents and in six countries, showing our Mother Ocean plenty of love.. Please enjoy this World Oceans Day gallery of images from their amazing efforts:

Santa Monica, California

A great turnout by some wonderful volunteers and hats off to our US team of Julie Andersen, Brigette Allen, Tod Hardin and Josh Sugiyama. Even the board chairman, William Pfeiffer was out there picking!

Plastic Oceans US brought the troops out to Santa Monica, for World Oceans Day 2018.

Hong Kong

Big thank you to Cristina Lopez McLauchlan and her Vibe Tribe team, as well as Gary Stokes, founder of Sea Shepherds, Lindsay Porter, and Craig Leeson.

Cristina from The Vibe Tribe, and some very influential friends
Boris Stroganoff the Redeemer chilling in the sand on World Oceans Day, in Hong Kong.
The winning Turtle using plastic found on the beach and then placed in for recycling. #trashart
The generations that matter watching the film.
Gary Stokes, Lindsay Porter and Craig Leeson.
Jeremy Tang from PacSafe, with a budding artist.
Cristina from The Vibe Tribe gifting the children where everyone was a winner thanks to PacSafe
Craig Leeson

Mexico

Great job by Mariana Soto, Executive Director of Plastic Oceans Mexico!

Mariana Soto of Plastic Oceans Mexico
World Oceans Day beach cleanup

Chile

Mark Minneboo and Camila Ahrendt were busy, busy, busy! Thank you to the entire team at Plastic Oceans Chile.

Plastic Oceans Chile team

Canada

South Africa

It was a full weekend of activities by Sarah Ferguson and her crew at Breathe Ocean Conservation. Well done!

Sarah Ferguson talk at Scottburgh for WOD
Mangroves beach cleanup.
Talk at Chelsea Prep
Mangroves beach cleanup.
Grade 4 ocean song at Chelsea prep
Staff from TetraPak who joined in the beach clean up, pictured with Presha from KZN Beach Clean Up.
Loyal KZN Beach Clean Up volunteer Aneesa Pandor with a reusable bamboo ecoffee cup.
The crew from Ecoboks who donated two packs of steel straws as giveaways for two lucky volunteers!
KZN Beach Clean Up partnered with SPAR who gave away reusable shopping bags to our volunteers so they can refuse single-use plastic grocery bags!
KZN Beach Clean Up also partnered with Ocean Basket who kept volunteered refreshed with cooldrinks, delicious biscuits and gave away vouchers for a meal of sustainable seafood at Ocean Basket Durban North.
Learners from Eden Prep worked incredibly hard on the beach!

World Oceans Day is a powerful annual opportunity to raise awareness on the problems that our oceans are facing – especially that of plastic pollution. We fully embrace it, but also ask that we all look beyond just this one event by making our love and protection of the sea an every day thing.