This campaign, Microplastic pollution in our oceans, aims at putting in the spotlight the issue of plastic entering our oceans.
Another focus will be to look at what it means for us but above all for the marine wildlife and ecosystem.
This campaign will bring you the facts about microplastic pollution.
It will also suggest you concrete and easy adjustments in your lifestyle so you can be part of the much needed collective effort to tackle this .
You will not be charged for the purchase of raffle tickets until the campaign ends
Provided that this campaign hits its target, a meeting with one representative of the organisation or charity will happen to handover the amount raised or a cheque will be sent. The recipient will then acknowledge reception via their favourite social media channel.
Should this campaign fails, by not reaching its minimum target, whatever amount you spent will not be charged. A confirmation email will be sent to you.
You will not be charged for the purchase of raffle tickets until the campaign ends
Provided that this campaign hits its target, a meeting with one representative of the organisation or charity will happen to handover the amount raised or a cheque will be sent. The recipient will then acknowledge reception via their favourite social media channel.
Should this campaign fails, by not reaching its minimum target, whatever amount you spent will not be charged. A confirmation email will be sent to you.
The facts
Every day approximately 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans. There may now be around 5.25 trillion macro and microplastic pieces floating in the open ocean. Weighing up to 269,000 tonnes.
Cheap and disposable, plastic has been a symbol of our throwaway culture. Much of it flows into the oceans, turning them into a plastic soup. A truckload of plastic enters the ocean every single minute
A billion toothbrushes will be thrown away in the U.S. alone this year, most of them plastic. The majority will end up in landfills or in our oceans and destroy marine wildlife.
The Environmental Medium Toothbrush
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world and is located between Hawaii and California. The mass of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) was estimated to be approximately 80,000 tonnes. This weight is also equivalent to that of 500 Jumbo Jets.
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When plastic breaks down it doesn’t disappear, it gets smaller creating tiny particles called microplastics. Even clothes made from artificial materials shed microplastic fibres when they’re washed. Microbeads, another type of microplastic, are sometimes added to products such as cosmetics and toothpaste
Plastics consistently make up 60 to 90% of all marine debris studied. Over 150 plastic bottles litter each mile of UK beaches. Approx 5,000 items of marine plastic pollution have been found per mile of beach in the UK.
A billion toothbrushes will be thrown away in the U.S. alone this year, most of them plastic. The majority will end up in landfills or in our oceans and destroy marine wildlife.
The Environmental Medium Toothbrush
Scientists discover large amounts of tiny plastic particles falling out of the air in a remote mountain location. Wednesday, 17 April 2019Scientists recorded a daily rate of 365 microplastic particles per square metre falling from the sky in the Pyrenees Mountains in southern France.
I CARE. I DRAW. I SUPPORT.
HERE IS HOW YOU CAN
[1] Help MARK reach his pledging target
£355 (the value of the artwork) is the target Pierrick would like to reach. He agreed on given away the full amount to his chosen charity – Greenpeace.
The artwork featured in this campaign is up for grabs. The highest contributor wins it at the end of the campaign. – Terms & conditions .
Pledge today and help Pierrick fulfil his total pledge – no payment is required
“The ocean is in my heART and I’m ready for love…
Can art be a vehicle to encourage positive change?
Can you up-cycle waste plastic whilst making art you’d actually want on your walls?
Petty believes you can, but please have a look for yourself.
Art that will be a timeless reminder to look after our oceans.
Ageless, with a positive anti-pollution message whilst upcycling waste plastic. Frames are made with onetreeplanted.org neutralising the carbon for every frame made.
Resin and paint pots all gets blended and used in the art piece.Sustainable art whilst giving back. Art that makes you hope that one day we’ll look back and think – Remember when we used to chuck plastic in our oceans…”
Petty
Terms & conditions
Use the form and pledge any amount you wish as little as £1.
After clicking on the PLEDGE NOW button, you will be taken to our PAYPAL checkout page where you can complete your pledge submission.
For transparency purposes, all pledgers are asked to allow their identity and the amount pledged to be published on the website along the time and date at the time of the submission.
But remember, the artwork will be given away to the most generous pledger!
Once you submit a pledge of say £20, this converts into 20 tokens. The more tokens you have, the more likely you are to be taking the featured artwork.
Whoever's got the most token by the time the campaign ends (see bottom of the form to find out the date), wins and take the featured artwork home.
It is not possible to increase your pledge once submitted but you can pledge again.
Any new pledge(s) will count towards your total number of tokens so if you pledge 20£ and then £50, you would then have 70 tokens in total. You must use the same details (Name and Email) for each pledge you make for them to add up.
Drawing United will collect the pledges via this website and will make a donation from the chosen charity website.
Donation receipt will be made public via the site and/or social media channels.
We will also, when possible, ask the chosen charity to acknowledge receipt of the donation via their preferred way of doing so.
If the target fails to be hit within the given timeframe, the featured artwork can be bought directly from the Drawing United site. Proceeds to go to the charity
As for your pledges or tokens, they can either be:
- used towards buying the featured artwork
- used as a credit to purchase anything from the Drawing United site such as our print collaborations coming for the Drawing United Collective. A large majority of the proceeds when buying such a print will be given to charity.
- transferred onto another campaign
In the event where two or several people are tied to win the artwork - ie they all pledged the same amount which is the highest across the board, whoever will have submitted his/her pledge first will take the prize.
The campaign needs to hit its target for this to be valid.
An A4 digital print of a 'surprise' artwork will also be won by the 2nd and 3rd highest pledger.
The same 'first pledged, win' rule applies as per the top prize.
Full Terms & conditions below
This campaign supports
Microplastic pollution
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