The organisations in our dive community supporting this project with their Mission 2020 pledge are putting the future of the oceans ahead of simply making a profit – they are making significant changes to their business and their impacts on the environment. Read some of their pledges below and submit your own here.
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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
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
ARIMAIR plongée
At Arimair Diving, we commit ourselves to: - install ecological anchorages - cleaning the seabed from rubbish during our dives, as well as the embarking places such as beaches and ports - rinsed the dive material in a collective bin - avoid much as possible the waste like plastic
Email: plongee@arimair.fr
Website: www.arimair.frcontact.php
Buddy Dive Bonaire
At Buddy Dive we pledge to reduce our plastic & carbon footprint. We're committed to decrease the amount of single-use-plastic items (straws, cups, to-go-boxes) and if used, use biodegradable materials. We promote the usage of & sell mineral based sunscreen. We will also continue our support to the Reef Renewal Foundation.
Email: info@buddydive.com
Website: www.buddydive.com
Ratio Computers LLC
Here at Ratio Computers we have been and still are reducing the use of bubble wrap. Besides, the new computer boxes will no longer be painted and will be made of 100% recycled and recyclable cardboard. The health of our oceans is and will always be one of our priorities.
Email: export@ratio-computers.com
Website: www.ratio-computers.com
Divewise Malta
Our dive centre is committed to raising awareness about ocean conservation and pledge to do our utmost with regards to reducing single use plastic, protecting our local waters by adopting a dive site, organising Dive Against Debris clean-ups and selling plastic free merchandise We are slowly integrating Padi E-Learning also.
Email: divewise.marketing@gmail.com
Website: www.divewise.com.mt
atmosphere resorts & spa
At atmosphere resorts & spa we have already made great strides in limiting our environmental impact. By World Oceans Day 2020, we pledge to have eliminated front of house single-use plastics and will continue to expand our sustainability and awareness raising efforts with our guests, suppliers and local community.
Email: kirsty@atmosphereresorts.com
Website: atmosphereresorts.com
Cortez Expeditions
Cortez Expeditions strives to ensure that our business practices and services are environmentally sustainable, to safeguard the ocean environment for generations to come. Well before 2020, all our facilities and boats will be 100% free of disposable plastic bottles and single use plastic.
Email: info@cortezexpeditions.com
Website: www.cortezexpeditions.com
AB-Dive Bonaire
At AB-Dive Bonaire we run our business for 100% powered by the sun! Since 2018 we banned all single use plastics from our business and we pledge to reduce plastic waste even more by 2020. AB-Dive is powered by the sun, twice the fun!
Email: info@ab-dive.com
Website: www.ab-dive.com
Aqua Tci
Aqua Tci will continue to encourage our divers to stand up and protect our most valuable resource - the world's oceans, through education and a sense of stewardship. We already have reusable cups, ice blocks and environmentally safe sunscreen on our boat and are aiming to be paper-free by 2020.
Email: aquatci@live.com
Website: www.aquatci.com
T101 - Technical & Diving Ops®
T101® Dive Training Center is dedicated to excellence in diving training. We are committed in protecting our Seas and support Project AWARE and other eco-green organisations. We lead by example, educating people to recycle & re-use plastic, respectfully explore wrecks and do regular clean-up dives (plastics & ghost fishing nets).
Email: info@t101.ro
Website: www.t101.ro
Transformation Scuba
Transformation Scuba pledges to make ocean conservation the highest priority by transforming divers into caring stewards of the aquatic realm. As a 100% AWARE partner we will lower our carbon footprint, reduce waste, remove marine debris on every dive, use reef friendly sunscreens, and live by the motto #TransformYourOcean !
Email: transformationscuba@gmail.com
Website: transformationscuba.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
Tobago dive experience
eradicate lionfish from Trinidad & Tobago
Email: tri1007@hotmail.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
Aquatic Adventures, Inc.
We pledge to reduce our use of single-use plastics. By 2020 we'll have eliminated plastic bags from our store and stopped using plastic utensils at our events. We love our lakes and pledge to do more to keep them clean. Aquatic Adventures, Inc. supports Mission 2020.
Email: staff@diveaai.com
Website: diveaai.com
Hydronauts Diving
Here at Hydronauts, its our mission to protect the environment and our aquatic home through eliminating single-use-plastics, promoting completely paperless agencies and other sustainable companies, and promoting the importance of marine conversation all divers, we hope to lead the efforts in reducing the communities environmental footprint.
Email: info@hydronautsdiving.com
Website: www.hydronautsdiving.com
Stellar Divers
Together we are stronger! So for our small part we have gone 100% Project AWARE. Our 2 main aims for this year are: To be 50% digital products on all PADI Courses we offer & to ensure the team do NOT use single use plastics on any dive operation.
Email: simon@stellardivers.co.uk
Website: www.stellardivers.co.uk
Tauchsport Käser
We will organise and coordinate 500 individual clean-up dives on our local dive sites, removing plastic and other waste, by World Oceans Day 2020. Over 50 divers from the community have already made individual commitments - signing up to carry out 3 or more clean up dives in a season.
Email: info@tauchsport-kaeser.ch
Website: www.tauchsport-kaeser.ch
Rainforest Scuba
Rainforest Scuba pledge not to use plastic bags for any sales in our business. We encourage the use of refillable bottles and are happy to refill these for you. We do not encourage plastic packaging and will endeavour to avoid them at all cost. We are part of Tetracycle recycling.
Email: luanaroyle@y7mail.com
Website: rainforestscuba.com
Muggi Limited
Muggi - Mission Statement 2020 Designed and manufactured in the UK to withstand the harsh environment of the ocean - now manufactured from waste plastic from the ocean. The recycled PP we use comes from the ocean and post-consumer waste, which is regenerated into new material.
Email: david@muggi.co.uk
Website: www.muggi.co.uk
The Dive Shack
We choose to have a positive impact on the Ocean through inspiring our customers to care about our oceans. We pledge to choose ethical, environmentally responsible suppliers and to lobby them and others until they reduce plastic waste to zero. We aim to spread environmental awareness to 500 new divers by 2020.
Email: rosie@thediveshack.com.au
Website: www.thediveshack.com.au
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
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
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
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
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
Dive Addicts
Dive Addicts, a retail dive shop, training and travel center, commits to giving business preference to vendors which put the needs of the world's oceans first by using sustainable and environmentally friendly practices, and we will continue to invest in renewable energy and improvements in our facility's energy efficiency.
Email: info@diveaddicts.com
Website: www.diveaddicts.com
OZTek Advanced Diving Conference & Exhibition
OZTek Advanced Diving Conference & Exhibition, an Australian bi-annual event, is committed to spreading awareness of ocean sustainable practices and reducing single use plastic waste. We will continue to encourage our suppliers and exhibitors to do the same, and actively work towards making OZTek a plastic-free event.
Email: sue.crowe@diveoztek.com.au
Website: www.oztek.com.au