Go to TeamSeas.org and for every $1 you donate, you'll remove 1 lb of trash from our oceans and rivers!
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The antenna bands are made from upcycled plastic water bottles, and that's not all! Just this week, as part of doubling down on their pledge to become carbon neutral by 2030, Apple announced 10 new renewable projects around the world through their Power for Impact program, including partnering to protect and restore the 27,000-acre mangrove forests in Córdoba, Colombia.
When it comes to reducing plastics specifically, Apple is working on incorporating more recycled materials. Like the HomePod mini mesh, which is 90% recycled plastic. The Apple Watch Brained Solo Loop, which is 100 recycled polyester, and across the company, more than 70 parts now average 50% recycled plastics as of 2020, and 17 additional parts now use plastics made from bio-based content instead of fossil fuels.
They’ve also begun switching to paper wrapping for products, including the iPhone, avoiding 600 metric tons of plastics, and retail bags are now 80% recycled fiber. Overall, Apple has already reduced plastic in packaging by almost half in three years and they have a goal of removing it completely by 2025.
Other efforts include recycling aluminum and rare earth elements like magnets, and doing trade-ins and recycling programs for whole entire products, and it’s all designed to minimize the impact e-waste has on our planet, our oceans, and more accurately, our lives.
To do your part, please visit TeamSeas.org now!
Oh, so many things, Jimmy!
Jimmy: educate us!
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Ok, so, here’s the deal. Our oceans, rivers, and beaches are filled with plastic trash. Pollution from plastic has created a massive health crisis for the whole entire planet.
And there’s no conspiracy theory here. No one is lying about our water supplies looking like Jake Paralta’s locker… just so Apple can switch from plastic to paper wrappers and ruin our ASMR unboxing fun, or Tim Cook can come to your house and rip the A/C adapter from your cold dead iPhone. If anything, the conspiracy is invested in keeping us in denial, so there’ll be less competition for sparse resources in a future Kingsmen movie, or whatever.
Point is, one person, one movement, one idea can make a difference. And I’ll get to just exactly how in a MrBeast minute. But also: it can’t be just us, just individuals. It can’t be companies abdicating their responsibility by telling us to recycle without any plan behind it, or governments that want to regulate our USB plugs because it’s easier and more politically expedient than tackling the mega polluters in their own backyards and off their coasts.
No, it has to be the mega corporations as well, including and especially the biggest, like Apple.
Who just this week, as part of doubling down on their pledge to become carbon neutral by 2030, announced 10 new renewable projects around the world through their Power for Impact program, including partnering to protect and restore the 27,000-acre mangrove forests in Córdoba, Colombia.
When it comes to reducing plastics specifically, Apple is working on incorporating more recycled materials. Like the HomePod mini mesh, which is 90% recycled plastic. The Apple Watch Brained Solo Loop, which is 100 recycled polyester, and across the company, more than 70 parts now average 50% recycled plastics as of 2020, and 17 additional parts now use plastics made from bio-based content instead of fossil fuels.
They’ve also begun switching to paper wrapping for products, including the iPhone, avoiding 600 metric tons of plastics, and retail bags are now 80% recycled fiber. Overall, Apple has already reduced plastic in packaging by almost half in three years and they have a goal of removing it completely by 2025.
Other efforts include recycling aluminum and rare earth elements like magnets, and doing trade-ins and recycling program for whole entire products, and it’s all designed to minimize the impact e-waste has on our planet, our oceans, and more accurately, our lives.
Is any of it enough? No, of course not. It will literally never be enough. Not from Apple, not from anyone. Not until our world and oceans are clean enough to ensure our children and descendants can not only survive but thrive for ages to come. To get to become Star Trek one day.
And that’s exactly where you and me and all of us can help: Thanks to MrBeast, Jimmy Donaldson, and Mark Robber, former NASA and Apple engineer, we’ve got thousands of creators coming together — basically the biggest and best team up in the history of YouTube — to raise $30 million to clean 30m pounds of plastic and trash out of the ocean.
Here’s how it works:
Now, If you’re at all worried about any of the methods or the organizations, I’ve personally been involved in a couple of weeks of discussions over them, I’ve seen the best objections and concerns from the brightest people, and all of them have been addressed by the organizers with consistent thoughtfulness and all the weight a campaign of this size can bring to bear to supervise, audit, and ensure every single penny is spent in the absolute best way possible.
And so, yeah, basically, every $1 donated results in 1 pound of trash being removed from our rivers and oceans. If that sounds like a lot to you, awesome, please donate a lot, as much as can, to help us reach our goal. If it sounds like… a drop in the ocean… then yeah, it’s a big problem, huge, but it’s not only a start, it can be a lot more — a way to inform and inspire everyone to do just way, way more.
So, please, go to teamSeas.org where you can contribute and see just how much progress we can make when we all work together. That’s teamseas.org, thanks again to CuriosityStream, and thanks to all of you for your support.