Mission 2020 is now closed and fourth element would like to thank everyone who took part and made a pledge for the better. View all the pledges below.
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Fourth Element
By World Oceans Day 2020 we will eliminate single use plastic packaging from our products. We will continue to develop new products and redevelop existing ones using recycled material. We will become truly OceanPositive.
Email: info@fourthelement.com
Website: www.fourthelement.com
PADI
As PADI drives toward a fully-integrated digital learning system, we lessen our dependency on packaging, thereby minimizing the plastic footprint of hundreds of thousands of divers every year. We will further reduce plastic waste across our supply chain and rally our 6,600 dive centers and resorts to reduce single-use plastics.
Email: pillarsofchange@padi.com
Website: padi.com
Halcyon
At Halcyon Dive Systems, we pledge to reduce our plastic and carbon footprint by 2020. We are committed to: Eliminate single-use plastic packaging of all our products; Significantly increase the use of recycled goods; Sponsor Ghost Fishing cleanups around the world and power the Halcyon manufacturing facility with solar energy.
Email: info@halcyon.net
Website: www.halcyon.net
Aqua Lung
At Aqua Lung, we are continuing our commitment to eliminate single-use plastic packaging on all of our products worldwide, whenever & wherever possible, finding sustainable alternatives everywhere we can. We will continue to further our use and implementation of renewable energy sources at our facilities across the globe.
Email: info@aqualung.com
Website: www.aqualung.com
AP Diving
We pledge that by World Ocean’s Day 2020 we will continue to improve in all areas of our current “Ocean Friendly” policy to: Recycle, Re-use and Reduce wherever possible; only ever use biodegradable, compostable and/or recyclable packaging materials and reduce our ecological footprint wherever possible.
Email: info@apdiving.com
Website: www.apdiving.com
blue o two
Our fleet vessels will be completely single-use plastic free by the end of 2019. Single-use plastic water bottles have already been removed from our Red Sea fleet. We pledge to minimise pollution on our boats and in our worldwide offices, achieving this whilst educating yet also respecting local communities.
Email: info@blueotwo.com
Website: www.blueotwo.com
Suunto
We will minimize single-use plastics in packaging and select durable materials to ensure a long lifetime for products and capability for maintenance. We will optimize deliveries and offset carbon emissions from all deliveries. Through our certified, audited environmental-management-system we are, and continue to be, committed to save our common playground.
Email: info@suunto.com
Website: suunto.com
Global Underwater Explorers
At GUE, we pledge to launch an annual GUE Cleanup Event. We feel we can have the greatest impact by utilizing our network of divers in a worldwide cleanup of our waters. We hope to power our office with solar, will continue to recycle, and eliminate any single use plastic.
Email: info@gue.com
Website: www.gue.com
BEUCHAT INTERNATIONAL
• Establishment of a recycling system for paper, cups, plastic bottles and cans inside Beuchat • We plan to stop using non-reusable plastic packaging within 3 years • Struggle against ecosystem impoverishment by supporting an initiative that helps to preserve marine ecosystems against overfishing and coastal habitat losses
Email: ctorres@beuchat.fr
Website: www.beuchat-diving.comgb
Mares
The sea has always been at the heart of Mares. By World Oceans Day 2020 we pledge to reduce our environmentally unfriendly packaging including single-use plastic by 70%, adopting sustainable alternatives and minimising waste. We will also innovate techniques in product development to reduce our environmental impact in the future.
Email: info@mares.com
Website: www.mares.com
SANTI DIVING
SANTI Diving is constantly working on improvement in the field of environment protection and implementation of the new actions aiming at the oceans and planets preservation. By 2020 we plan to replace the plastic bags by biodegradable ones, increase the effort to find the suppliers delivering the the recyclable elements.
Email: katarzyna@santidiving.com
Website: www.santidiving.com
SubGravity
SubGravity is committed to avoid single use plastic where there is an alternative, sustainable option available. We will work towards a 75% or more reduction in single use plastic by the year 2020. Additionally SubGravity is committed to continue recycling by shipping orders in previously used packaging whenever possible.
Email: info@sub-gravity.com
Website: www.sub-gravity.com
Motor City Scuba
We pledge to continue to reuse packaging & packing materials. We have eliminated plastic shopping bags, and recycle as many items as possible instead of throwing them away We will continue our local cleanup dives of the Great Lakes and the rivers that connect them to the ocean.
Email: dive@motorcityscuba.com
Website: www.motorcityscuba.com
BSAC (British Sub-Aqua Club)
We’ll eliminate single-use plastic from SCUBA magazine and the national & regional training events by end 2018, and from BSAC branded products by World Oceans Day 2020. We’ll continue to promote BSAC’s ‘marine clean’ ethos of making underwater litterpicks, beach cleans and five-a-day litter picking ‘business as usual’ for divers.
Email: info@bsac.com
Website: www.bsac.com
CCRExplorers.com
CCRExplorers.com, an on-line resource and forum for the closed circuit rebreather community, commits to use its influence and reach to positively influence the wider diving community about sustainable lifestyle habits which affect the world's oceans in a positive manner.
Email: info@ccrexplorers.com
Website: www.ccrexplorers.com
XDIVERS
Our sustainable journey started in 2018 with banning single-use plastic. By World's Ocean Day 2020, we pledge to extend fully our Zero Waste program. Also, in order to increase environment awareness in our diving community, we will organize local actions as beach clean-ups, educational film screenings and lectures.
Email: amandine@xdivers.com.br
Website: www.xdivers.com.br
TEKTITE INDUSTRIES
Tektite was founded on "green/sustainable" principles, before they became trendy We are concerned about the environment and we are committed to improving the Earth's environmental condition Outdoor sports are an environmentally oriented activity The beauty of the ocean and great outdoors requires our attention and care.
Email: scottm@tek-tite.com
Website: www.tek-tite.com
Mundo Acuático Costa Rica
Clean a spot diving at Costa Rica
Email: luis@mundoacuatico.cr
Superdive Foundation
We will continue running monthly shore and underwater cleanups – offering free dive gear rentals to anyone certified (open water and above) participating in our underwater cleanup. By World Oceans Day 2020 we will have a program in place to recycle the plastic debris we've collected.
Email: nick@superdive.org
Website: www.superdive.org
SCUBA CULTURE
We pledge to continue our dedicated focus on reducing the use of all plastics in favour for environmentally sound alternatives, we undertake to continue to reduce our impact on our planet and encourage others to do the same by installing such things as solar power systems.
Email: xavier@scubaculture.com.au
Website: www.scubaculture.com.au
Nautilus Diving Center
We pledge to reduce the single use plastic packaging and reduce plastic waste on board and in our diving facilities, already one, a personalize water bottle is to be handed to guests for use during diving tour so do not need to bring a plastic water bottle.
Email: info@divesardegna.com
Website: www.divesardegna.com
BEST SPOT AZORES DIVE CENTER
Our dive center and staff will commit ourselves and to help our divers to reduce to zero the single use plastic, continue our everyday efforts to clean dive spots, reduce and use more fuel efficient engines and to educate and involve our clients and local community.
Email: bestspotazores@gmail.com
Website: www.bestspotazores.com
Hugyfot
No more single use packaging. Our housings are made primarily from aluminium, the parts currently made from plastic will be replaced by 3D printed parts by 2020. The 3D printing material is made from formic acid, which is entirely biologically degradable.
Email: jutha@hugyfot.com
Website: www.hugyfot.com
Scuba Travel Scandinavia
We pledge to steer travellers and divers towards businesses committed to sustainable practices. Since 2017, our office has been carbon neutral and our staff pledge to avoid using single-use-plastic From 2019 all of our guests flights will also be climate-compensated, funded by Scuba Travel Scandinavia.
Email: info@scubatravel.se
Website: www.scubatravel.se
ST DIVING EUROPE
At ST Diving, we pledge to encourage all our students and divers to use single use plastic free packaging when transporting equipment to expeditions and actively participate in removing garbage from our oceans and shore lines on every dive they partake in and to promote Ocean Conservation.
Email: training@stdiving.com
Website: www.stdiving.com
Deep Blue Divers at Six Senses Laamu
Deep Blue Divers’ administrative ‘paperwork’ is now done electronically and we pledge to continue reducing paper and eliminating single-use plastics, also by supporting other eco-friendly businesses whenever possible. We will further promote education and awareness of ocean conservation and inspire divers and snorkelers to love and care for the ocean.
Email: mgr-diving@sixsenses.com
Website: www.sixsenses.comresortslaamudestination
Wreck and Reef Scuba Adventures
We will ensure that in the course of our business and personal lives, we will fully support the drive to avoid single-use plastics. We will continue to remain a 100% AWARE member, in so doing, contributing financially to the conservation of the Aquatic environment.
Email: dive@wreckandreefscuba.com
Website: www.wreckandreefscuba.com
Typhoon International
Typhoon is committed to minimise single-use plastics in packaging where there is an alternative, sustainable solution, working towards a 75% reduction over the next 3 years. We are establishing a recycling system for office waste and remain committed to shipping customer orders in previously used packaging whenever possible.
Email: sales@typhoon-int.co.uk
Website: www.typhoon-int.co.uk
cork dive centre
Cork Dive Centre pledges to introduce mission 2020 as part of our training programme for new divers and request our club and visiting divers to remove any plastic items found in the sea during their dives. We will exchange single use plastic items for recyclable and ethically sourced equipment.
Email: corkdivecentre@gmail.com
Website: corkdivecentre.co.uk
DiveStock
Joining Mission 2020, DiveStock commits to carry out an environmentally more conscious workflow. We will continue to carry out yearly beach cleanups and we will start off reducing single-use plastic both from our packaging and office daily usage. We believe in collective power and consistency.
Email: info@divestock.com
Website: www.divestock.com
Dive Rarotonga
At Dive Rarotonga Ltd we pledge to reduce single use plastic, ban plastic straws at work and our personal lives and use things for continuous and multiple use We also pledge to increase environmental awareness in our customers and suggest alternatives to what is already in use.
Email: info@diverarotonga.com
Website: www.diverarotonga.com
Southseas Beach Resort and Dive Center
At South Seas Beach Resort & Dive Center, we pledge to reduce single use plastics, promote e-learning for diving courses, pro-active in clean-up drives in our reefs and community mostly be ambassadors of ocean love by disseminating information campaigns such as Mission 2020.
Email: southseasbrdc@gmail.com
Rich Coast Diving
We have our 2 hour power cleanups where we organize a major beach cleanup with the local community. We also sell caps made out of recycled plastic, ocean safe sunscreen, shampoo bars, metal drinking flasks & straws. We serve drinks in recycled cups on our boats since 2006.
Email: dive@richcoastdiving.com
Website: www.richcoastdiving.com
SI TECH AB
SI TECH have set a goal to take a greater responsibility for a more sustainable production and product. The goal is; to work to reduce single use plastics, recycle more fractions, look at more environmental solutions and materials in production and working for recycling of products.
Email: info@sitech.se
Website: www.sitech.se
SunSet SCUBA
Sunset SCUBA pledges to continue to use PADI eLearning®, reducing the carbon footprint from printed plastics. As well as stressing environmental awareness and conservation practices on every dive.
Email: sf146781@gmail.com
Aquatic Adventures
Aquatic Adventures pledges to increase our environmental projects. Conservation is a cornerstone of our training & we carry out monthly clean up dives with the help of our club members. By 2020 we commit to strengthen this focus with more conservation projects & by supporting vendors who maintain sustainable practices.
Email: rowville@aquaticadventures.com.au
Website: www.aquaticadventures.com.au
Awei Pila Dive Resort
We are located in one of the last untouched destinations in Asia and it is our responsibility to keep it that way, we aim to eliminate single-use plastic in our operation by providing refillable bottles to our guests as well bathroom amenities made in wood
Email: marinebiologist@aweipila.com
Website: memoriesgroup.comhotel-myanmarawei-pila-resort-mergui-archipelago
Cabo Trek
We work to further the understanding and appreciation of the world by re-establishing our connection with mother nature We promote responsible wildlife tours in Los Cabos, research and environmental education programs We stopped to use plastic bags and until 2020 our proposal is stopped with the plastic bottles on tours.
Email: info@cabotrekc.om
Website: cabotrek.com
Tobago dive experience
eradicate lionfish from Trinidad & Tobago
Email: tri1007@hotmail.com
Scuba West
We love to recycle. So, we are increasing our efforts to recycle plastic, aluminum, paper, batteries, and neoprene. We offer our recycling program to our local divers to get them involved with helping the environment.
Email: jefftobey@scubawest.net
Website: www.scubawest.net
Bali Dive Trek
At Bali Dive Trek, we pledge to continually recycle and avoid any plastic, waste and polluting material in our dive center. We try to teach the local community and our customers to respect our environment and ocean by aware them of the dangers.
Email: balidivetrek@gmail.com
Website: balidivetrek.com