{"id":1263,"date":"2018-05-24T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T03:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kinzie.com\/fresh\/2018\/05\/our-beautiful-ocean-copy-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T09:06:37","slug":"2018-05-24-our-beautiful-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kinzie.com\/fresh\/2018-05-24-our-beautiful-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Our beautiful ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"

I popped down for a quick swim at lunch today and the ocean invited me to lend her a hand by giving me a little (I mean tiny) plastic bag while I was in the water so I said thanks by filling it up with little bits and bringing it home.<\/p>\n

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My back yard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I popped down for a quick swim at lunch today and the ocean invited me to lend her a hand by giving me a little (I mean tiny) plastic bag while I was in the water so I said thanks by filling it up with little bits and bringing it home.<\/p>\n

The task took less than 10 minutes. It was the least I could offer to her as an easy exchange for a wonderful, much-needed, long-overdue, refreshing break.<\/p>\n

The entire time, I kept thinking about 1 turtle or 1 sea bird or 1 little fish or 1 giant whale I could serve with each little piece I collected, recalling the tears streaming down my cheeks as I watched the images in A Plastic Ocean,<\/a> last night — not fear, but love. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Fishing for trash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since my arrival here in 90’s, I have never taken a bag with me and I have been quietly cleaning Hong Kong beaches on my own. Every time I took a beach break, I would pick up a plastic bag and fill it as I walked along the shore. People would join me. Others would offer me fresh fruit from their picnic baskets.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few years ago I had stopped when the plastic bag levy meant no more plastic bags on the sand. The volume washing up on shore after spring rains hurt my heart so much I all but stopped going to the beach. <\/span><\/p>\n

Today, as I fished for these tiny bits of plastic, I realized I had reached a point where my big picture thinking had me dismissing these small acts of kindness as rather pointless. <\/span><\/p>\n

I feel so much better, now. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sad, but definitely better.<\/span><\/p>\n

Be the change.<\/p>\n

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A Plastic Ocean<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the director of the award-winning<\/a> film, A Plastic Ocean,<\/a> reaches out and offers you his seat at a fully booked screening because you left it to the last minute, the correct answer is, “yes”.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Craig<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I was expecting to see a horror film, but instead I was moved to tears by a most beautiful love story about the wonder that is our little blue planet.<\/p>\n

Please do yourself a favor and watch A Plastic Ocean<\/a>. It’s available on Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Consider organizing a community screening<\/a> for your crew or your school.<\/p>\n

“From knowing comes caring. From caring comes change.” Craig Leeson<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read up on a few of the solutions introduced in the film, including The Plastic Bank<\/a>, Fair Trade Plastic<\/a>, Plastic Recycling Micro Economies<\/a>, Social Plastic,<\/a> Organic Plastic Infrastructure<\/a> and Pyrolysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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