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
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
Shark Bay Films
All the obvious. Plus buying milk in glass refundable bottles saving 300+ plastic bottles a year. And negotiating for a long lease of 2 fields in sight of our studio to plant with trees to offset our flights carbon footprints, plus reinstating a natural wildlife corridor severed by agriculture.
Email: john@sharkbayfilms.com
Website: www.sharkbayfilms.co.uk
Seahorse Divers
We take the pledge and choose to reduce, reuse and recycle disposable plastic whenever and wherever possible We refuse disposable plastic when possible. We use exclusively on-line training materials. We clear waste from dive-sites when visiting. We educate our students to be environmental friendly and show respect for nature.
Email: contact@seahorsedivers.nl
Website: www.seahorsedivers.nl
Deptherapy & Deptherapy Education
Deptherapy & Deptherapy Education is committed to: "PROTECTING OUR OCEANS" our strap line is: "These are our oceans, and as surely as we fought for our country, we must now,as that same band of brothers fight to save our Oceans." Ben Lee, bilateral amputee, Deptherapy Trustee formerly Royal Engineers.
Email: ops@deptherapy.co.uk
Website: www.deptherapy.co.uk
Easydivers Portugal
Our philosophy is to provide high-quality diving services, complying with all ISO standards, safety and comfort requirement We provide special attention to the preservation of the environment and underwater heritage. Our goal is to be an environmentally friendly company. This year we were the recipients of the Green Star Award.
Email: info@easydivers.pt
Website: http:www.easydivers.pt
Beyond Diving
We pledge to significantly reduce our use of single use plastic, and we will continue to train our divers in an environmentally sound manner and continue to clean up our reefs of trash and fishing lines during every dive we conduct.
Email: info@beyonddivingscuba.com
Website: www.beyonddivingscuba.com
Liquid Sports GmbH
We at Liquid Sports are trying to reduce, reuse and recycle. The devil lies in the detail, starting with daily routines. We are constantly trying to keep the waste of packaging as low as possible e.g. reusing cartons. With XCEL we will use a biodegradable packaging from 2020 on.
Email: contact@liquid-sports.de
Website: liquid-sports.de
Shearwater
Shearwater pledges to reduce or eliminate our use of shock absorbing plastic packing materials. We will continue our social media efforts aimed at creating awareness about plastic pollution. We are committed to do at least one company-wide beach cleanup per year.
Email: info@shearwater.com
Website: www.shearwater.com
3D2Real
At 3D2real.be we only use for our 3D products 90% recycled plastic from pet bottles to make custom cave markers . By the year 2020 we pledge to find a solution to use 100% recycled plastic.
Email: info@3d2real.be
Website: www.3d2real.be
Aruba Watersports Center
We think green
Email: awckantoor@gmail.com
Website: www.arubawatersportscenter.com
Froggie Fever cc
Continue to reuse, reduce and recycle, encourage all our customers to do the same and promote positive examples of this on our social media. Encourage all divers to have their own drinking bottle as part of their standard dive kit. By 2020 training manuals will be online versions where available.
Email: info@froggiefever.com
Website: www.froggiefever.com
Heritage Malta Underwater Cultural Heritage Units
Heritage Malta Underwater Cultural Heritage Unit is committed to advocate environmental best practices through promotion of public access to protected Historical wreck sites. We pledge to clean our historical wrecks from ghost fishing and any presence of modern waste.
Email: uchu@heritagemalta.org
Website: uchu.heritagemalta.org
Girls that Scuba
We only started selling products in 2018 so we were able to pledge from the get-go not to use ANY plastic in our packaging Our mission 2020 pledge will be to continue our commitment to plastic-free packaging as well as created products that will help others live a plastic-free lifestyle.
Email: sarah@girlsthatscuba.com
Website: www.girlsthatscuba.com
Purple Turtle Diving
Reduce single use plastics and encourage the use of eLearning. We will continue to remove plastics from the ocean including, but not limited to, Ghost Fishing gear by supporting Ghost Fishing UK in both training and volunteering.
Email: toni@purpleturtlediving.com
Website: www.purpleturtlediving.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
Ocean Spirit Scuba Diving
Mauritius has excellent clean drinkable tap water yet many people are drinking bottled water. Plastic bottles are our biggest polluter. The Tap Water Revolution installs drinking fountains in Mauritius. With our publicity machine we hope help them install drinking fountains in all the major shopping centres as our 2020 project.
Email: info@oceanspirit.com
Website: www.osdiving.com
KUBI Dry Gloves & Expedition Products
KUBI Dry Glove Systems & Expedition Products has committed itself to the removal of plastic packaging from it’s products. From the 1st July 2018, all KUBI products will be supplied in recyclable paper packaging, as part of a fundamental rethink on how to deliver products in the most environmentally-friendly way.
Email: sales@kubistore.com
Website: www.kubistore.com
Duck Diver Marketing
Duck Diver Marketing pledges to reduce its use of single-use plastics in both our business and personal lives. While we are a small firm, we proudly work with a wide range of dive companies, and we will encourage our business partners, and the dive community, to do the same.
Email: megan@duckdiverllc.com
Website: www.duckdiverllc.com
Oasis Explorers
Oasis Explorers doesn't offer single-use plastic bottles or straws to our guests. We pledge to export and recycle our used batteries, and choose suppliers that reduce their single-use plastic packaging. We will also hold a Mission 2020 event to clean up our dive sites and raise awareness for the cause.
Email: tech@oasisexplorers.com
Website: www.oasisexplorers.com
COJO Diving
By 2020 we pledge to have minimized single-use plastic usage at our facility and at dive events. We will offer preference to suppliers who offer alternatives to single-use packaging materials, seek community partners to promote conservation and ocean debris awareness, and offer customers more opportunities to participate in cleanup events.
Email: cojodiving@gmail.com
Website: www.cojodiving.com
Expat Divers in Korea
Expat Divers in Korea is a dive club of foreigners diving mostly in the East Sea. We are dedicated to protecting the waters of South Korea. As stewards of the ocean we plan monthly beach cleanup events with divers, snorkelers, and a beach crew. Come join us!
Email: timattis@gmail.com
Website: www.expatdiversinkorea.com
World Diving Lembongan
At World Diving Lembongan we pledge to continue our efforts to reduce single-use plastic in all of our operations. We use glassware, banana leaf food wraps, reusable drinks bottles and storage containers. We have banned plastic straws. We support cleanups through action and make monthly donations to local recycling operations.
Email: info@world-diving.com
Website: www.world-diving.com
Damon Bates Photography
1. Remove any and all visible plastic from every dive site I dive. 2. eliminate my use of single use plastics at straws 3. implore all my students and dive buddies do the same
Email: damonbates1@gmail.com
Website: www.damonbatesphotography.com
Sunken Treasure Scuba Center
Thirty five years and hundreds of miles from the ocean Sunken Treasure Scuba Center will continue cleanup efforts in local streams before debris can get to the ocean. This year Adopting a Local Site and we'll provide the vigilance to keep debris from making it to the ocean.
Email: stsc@divestsc.com
Website: divestsc.com
JC Scuba Ltd
Our pledge to continue to reuse all packaging. No plastic cups or carrier bags in store. As advocates of the ocean, we encourage our divers to be conscious of the dive environment in and out of the water and all divers joining our dive trips to take their own water bottles.
Email: info@jcscuba.net
Website: www.jcscuba.net
Paralenz
The Paralenz pledge to the ocean, is to keep all Paralenz packaging as produced today with cardboard and sealed with paper tape only. Aside from this, we pledge to continue our affiliation program to encourage collaboration between dive centers and NGOs as well as channeling funds towards ocean conservation.
Email: jds@paralenz.com
Website: www.paralenz.com
MORE AQUA SHOW ( MAS )
The MORE AQUA SHOW underwater activities fair (March 2019 SPAIN) will disseminate the pollution problems of the oceans and what the plastic implies in the marine environment through conferences to raise awareness of the importance of oceans on our planet and the importance of the human being on its conservation.
Email: gestion@feriamas.com
Blue Marine Dive Trawangan
We are committed to training environmentally-considerate divers and encouraging responsible diving practices through conservation-based educational events. We pledge to protect our local artificial reef structures and reduce marine pollution in our adopted dive site. We will strive to reduce and responsibly manage our waste, focusing on reducing single-use plastics.
Email: trawangan@bluemarinedive.com
Ocean Turtle Diving
We pledge to - ban all single use plastic from the dive centre (cups, drinks bottles, packaging, bags and bin bags). - recycle every item of plastic, paper, cardboard, glass and metal possible in dedicated recycling containers. - instill these values in every student we teach from DSD to instructor.
Email: enquiries@oceanturtlediving.com
Website: www.oceanturtlediving.com