What is the Plastic Pledge?
Pledgers can buy one or more smart swap alternatives to plastic products from our online SwapSHOP and 10% of sales is donated to The Ocean Cleanup. Another portion of proceeds will be reinvested into marketing Take The Plastic Pledge so we can reach our goal of 1 MILLION pledgers.
ZizzyBee Bags is the owner of Take The Plastic Pledge and partners with unique brands that have quality products to replace plastic products as well as brand who have eco-friendly products in general. We also partner with Ambassadors that want to help us win the war on plastic which together we can!
Our Mission
Astounding Facts
by Plastic
The War on Plastic
Our beautiful sea turtles are caught in plastic nets and are killed by eating plastic bags which they mistake for jelly fish.
Photo Credit: Francis Perez shared by The Ocean Clean Up
Seabirds and other marine animals have bellies full of plastic.
Photo Credit: Chris Jordan shared by Smithsonian Ocean
1.15 to 2.41 million metric tons of plastic are entering the ocean each year and finding its way to one of five floating garbage patches.
Photo Credit: The Ocean Clean Up
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is the largest of the five located halfway between Hawaii and California. It covers 1.6 million square kilometers (twice the size of Texas).
Photo Credit: Phys dot org and Source: The Ocean Clean Up
Chemicals in plastics will enter the body of the animal feeding on the plastic which means they reach humans. Also, $13 BILLION is spent a year cleaning up plastic.
Source: The Ocean Clean Up
100 BILLION
plastic bags are used in the U.S. every year.
It takes
12 MILLION barrels of oil to make those bags.
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recycled plastic, and other awesome eco gifts.