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
Goby Divers and Watersports
At Goby Divers we pledge to avoid plastic wherever possible and every month we will hold a reef clean-up event in which we involve local kids to make them aware and to remove waste from the ocean.
Email: bernardo@goby-divers.com
Website: www.goby-divers.com
Severntec Diving
As an ocean lover and local, inland dive centre it is important to educate divers and non-divers alike, as to the impact of the use of single use plastics is having on our oceans. We pledge to clean beaches and eliminate our use of single-use plastics in our practice.
Email: severntecdiving@gmail.com
Website: www.severntecdiving.com
Divebase
As a digital company, we pledge to reduce our carbon footprint by 2020. All our servers will be powered by renewable energy and our office will eliminate single-use plastic. Furthermore, we will spread the word and educate as much as possible.
Email: support@diveba.se
Website: www.diveba.se
Aquarius Scuba Diving Centre, Inc.
When you train a diver to dive safely, they tend to care about the ocean, about its conservation and ecology, and about its preservation. The more people that we can bring in as certified divers and teach them these things, the better off that stewardship will be for the oceans.
Email: diving@aquariusscuba.com
Website: www.aquariusscuba.com
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
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
SD Diving Service
We are committed to eliminate completely the final presentation of our services, eliminating the single-use plastic container. We will work to convey awareness of the problems to our customers. We are excited about making changes that will have a positive impact on the future of our oceans.
Email: sddivingservice@gmail.com
Website: www.sddivingservice.com.ar
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
Dykmagasinet/Oceanic Tech – WeDive Karlstad AB
We at Dykmagasinet/Oceanic Tech – WeDive Karlstad AB pledge to keep using recycled shipping material and to make every dive a pick up trash dive. We will cut out single-use plastic to the best of our ability, reduce our carbon footprint and continue to spread awareness about ocean sustainability.
Email: info@dykmagasinet.se
Website: www.dykmagasinet.se
Dolphin Scuba Diving
We pledge to continue to only use recycled paper products for stationary and in-store promotions. Dolphin Scuba proactively encourages our customers to reduce their plastic use by offering re-useable, ocean-friendly alternatives.
Email: dolphin@dolphinscuba.com.au
Website: www.dolphinscuba.com.au
Adrenalin Snorkel & DIve
Adrenalin Snorkel & Dive is a ECO-certified tour operator operating in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. We are committed to reducing our environmental footprint and have taken steps to ensure that such as using resuable cups and plates on board.
Email: marketing@adrenalindive.com.au
Website: adrenalindive.com.au
Jeffsdivingworld
I pledge to continue buying products that are plastic free & continuing to do my weekly beach cleans. Address to my students about this critical issue and help them do the same as me.
Email: jeff@jeffsdivingworld.co.uk
Website: http:www.jeffsdivingworld.co.uk
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
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
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
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
Worldwide Dive and Sail
Siren Fleet, Master Liveaboards, and The Junk pledge to be completely single-use plastic free by the end of 2019 We will be working with, and learning from; local organisations in destinations, suppliers, NGO's, government organisations, and many others in order to reach our goal across all our vessels and offices.
Email: info@wwdas.com
Website: www.wwdas.com
SCUBANANA
No plastic uses. A Project to clean the ocean. We adopt a dive site. We introduce new product sustainables. Carry a bag with us during the dives to collect waste from the ocean. We try to transmit our philosophy to our costumers.
Email: info@buceoislascanarias.com
Website: www.scubanana.es
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
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
Xwander
At Xwander, we pledge to be carbon neutral by World Oceans Day 2020, through the evaluation, reduction and compensation of our carbon footprint. We have replaced single-use plastics on excursions and we educate our customers about plastic pollution and sustainability. We also aim to organise frequent beach and ocean clean-ups.
Email: info@xwander.com
Website: www.xwander.com
Kraken Dive Team
By World Oceans Day 2020, we pledge to help create the next generation of ocean advocates by connecting as many young people as possible with our oceans through SCUBA diving. We will do this by continuing to offer young people try dives, alongside running ocean awareness sessions, across the UK.
Email: krakendiveteam@gmail.com
Website: www.krakendiveteam.co.uk
Divers Supply Indy
At Divers Supply Indy, we pledge to have a positive impact on our Oceans. We commit to our on-going recycling program and will continue to educate our Divers about the importance of good diving practices that directly impact the underwater environment.
Email: dsi@diverssupplyindy.com
Website: www.diverssupplyindy.com
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
Octopus Divers Dahab
Octopus Divers Dahab is all about diving with a focus on having a good impact on the Ocean Planet We strive to educate our staff and guests about the importance of keeping our ocean healthy not just to keep diving fun and sustainable, but for our very existence as humans.
Email: drdia79@yahoo.com
Website: octopusdiversdahab.com
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
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
Dive Right in Scuba
Dive Right in Scuba makes the pledge to only use environmentally friendly packing materials with the aim of eliminating single use plastics from our shipping department completely. What’s more, DRIS will push to reuse packing materials such as boxes and packing media whenever possible.
Email: mike@diverightinscuba.com
Website: www.diverightinscuba.com
Weezle Diving Services
Weezle Diving Services Ltd has, as of February 2019, achieved the aim of rising from being 90%, to 100% single use plastic free & it is important to us to maintain this. As a small company we have always aimed to leave a small footprint while making a big impact.
Email: sales@weezle.co.uk
Website: www.weezle.co.uk