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Save The Ocean Using Social Media With The #CleanSeasPhotoChallenge

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Save The Ocean Using Social Media With The #CleanSeasPhotoChallenge

by The Daily Eye Team June 8 2017, 4:19 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 47 secs

June is World Oceans Month and our friends at UN Environment have a plan to bring awareness to the pollution crisis hurting our largest bodies of water and life on this planet. The #CleanSeasPhoto campaign is a user-generated social media competition about marine litter and oceans, and it's a ridiculously easy way for anyone with a smartphone or a camera to get involved in a global issue. Your time on Instagram can finally be put to good use. Over-consumption of non-biodegradable plastic materials is the main culprit of ocean pollution. At least 8 million tons of plastic wind up in the ocean each year, not including other kinds of refuse like glass, rubber, ceramics, textiles, wood and metals. Plastic pollution, in particular, comes from non-recycled packages and bottles, microbeads in cosmetics and soaps, and plastic bags. Right now, experts estimate that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.

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