California Coastal Cleanup Day turns 25 this year and celebrates the anniversary with a stunning poster depicting jellyfish and plastic bags. Click on the image below for a high res version to post everywhere!

Once I put a plastic bag into a jar of water and passed it around the university classroom where I was teaching and not one student identified it as a plastic bag.  Point being, plastic bags in the ocean really can fool animals into eating them.  That can be tragic for the animal.  Some animals pass plastic along with all the other things they eat.  But others choke and die or get so stopped up that they die slowly.

Check out the video below of a plastic bag side by side with a jellyfish on a California beach.

Many cities and even entire countries have moved to ban plastic bags.  In other places efforts have been blocked by well-funded pro-plastic interests.

As the research floods in on the harmful impacts of plastic on nature it will become harder and harder to defend single-use disposable plastic.

Take responsibility for what you buy, where you buy it and let businesses know that you prefer that they don’t use disposable plastic.  Step up and support local efforts to get the bad stuff out of our system.  Sign up to walk your local beach or waterway on Coastal Cleanup Day and join thousands of others around the world doing the same.