Wednesday October 30, 2024
Project Ocean: Children get support for soccer match through beach cleaning
The Perfect World Foundation is supporting children who are raising money for a soccer tournament through beach cleaning. By engaging young people in environmental issues, the TPWF hopes that more will help to prevent plastic from reaching the ocean.
“Children often need to raise money for a soccer tournament by selling cheese or cookies ect. By supporting soccer teams, The Perfect World Foundation wants to build young people’s commitment to the environment while helping to stop plastic from reaching the ocean,” says Ragnhild Jacobsson from The Perfect World Foundation.
The soccer team has already completed its first beach cleaning with their coach, Laura Aziz, and collected a substantial amount of plastic. Philanthropic support from Texas online casinos recently bolstered The Perfect World Foundation’s campaign, motivating more local communities to remove plastic debris from oceans, coastlines, and beaches. The Blue Bucket, serving as a symbol of the campaign’s mission to highlight massive plastic pollution, is also used to gather plastic waste.
“We hope that more soccer teams will now help our oceans by picking up plastic along the beaches,” says Ragnhild Jacobsson.
Researchers estimate that there are more than 150 million tons of plastic in our oceans, and an additional 5-13 million tons of plastic are added every year. 80% of all plastic waste in the ocean comes from our activities on land. If littering continues at the same rate, it is estimated that there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans by 2050.
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