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I Painted My Beach Umbrella To Show What Will Happen To Marine Life If We Don’t Make A Change

Plastic bottles, plastic bags, single-use dishes—this is what beaches look like at Turkey’s Aegean coast, where I stay all summer. And, of course, such beaches you can see all around the world. Unfortunately, humans do not realize or maybe do not care that all this trash sooner or later will get to the sea where it is poisoning marine life and killing coral reefs.

And also beaches often look like an ad campaign of the most polluting brands in plastic waste: Coca- Cola and Unilever. There are a lot of beach umbrellas with logos of these companies. But is it right to promote on the beach such irresponsible brands who do nothing to reduce the waste?

I want to promote the right thing when I go to the beach.

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I bought an umbrella without any print and decided to turn it into a protest banner

I Painted My Beach Umbrella To Show What Will Happen To Marine Life If We Don’t Make A Change

I used the rounded form of the umbrella to show two kinds of seas

I Painted My Beach Umbrella To Show What Will Happen To Marine Life If We Don’t Make A Change

The one which future generations will get if we stop this plastic madness

I Painted My Beach Umbrella To Show What Will Happen To Marine Life If We Don’t Make A Change

And another one if nothing changes

I Painted My Beach Umbrella To Show What Will Happen To Marine Life If We Don’t Make A Change

Here you can watch a short film about how and why I made it

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My name is Violeta and I am an editor here at Bored Panda. I love reading memes for a living. It’s obviously much more than that, but I appreciate the variety of topics, information, and pics I get to see every day and share with the world! Those funny memes really make my day too. Being born in the ’90s in post-Soviet Lithuania speaks more about me than I’d like to admit. I’m still learning about the world and myself, but I do love my friends, traveling, art, and my cat. My favorite fact to share about myself is that I used to hide meatballs in my friend’s pockets at lunch so I could go play outside. I wish all those meatballs could find their way back to me someday.

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Zophra 4 years ago (edited)

I'm going to get downvoted for this - but more needs to be done than a pretty umbrella to "save the seas." Simply bringing a trashbag to the beach to pick up trash will impact the seas more than this bumper sticker activism. (It is very pretty though.)

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NanZ 4 years ago

Your umbrella says it all! You are very talented and this is a beautiful way to remind fellow beach goers to pick up their trash and dispose of it properly. Your umbrella should be on every beach so hopefully more people will think that they must help stop themselves and others from adding to the problem.

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