The Bahamas Plastic Movement is a

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based out of

Eleuthera Eleuthera () refers both to a single island in the archipelagic state of the The Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Bahamas and to its associated group of smaller islands. Eleuthera forms a part of the Great Bahama Bank. The island of Eleuthera incor ...

in the Bahamas that focuses on reducing

plastic pollution Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles (e.g. plastic bottles, bags and microbeads) in the Earth's environment that adversely affects humans, wildlife and their habitat. Plastics that act as pollutants are catego ...

. The organization was founded in 2013 by Kristal Ambrose. The organization specializes in using

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to end plastic pollution. They are an active member of the

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. In 2017, the Bahamas Plastic Movement helped create Jack Johnson's music video for " You Can't Control It," and the cover for his album '' All the Light Above It Too''.

Plastic bag ban

In 2018 a youth delegation from the Bahamas Plastic Movement traveled to

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to meet with Romauld Ferreira, Minister of the Environment and Housing, to ban plastic bags in the Bahamas. The Bahamas Plastic Movement claimed that if plastic pollution on beaches increased that $8.5 million in

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would be lost. Fereira and his cabinet have since approved plans to phase out plastic bags by 2020.{{Cite news, url=http://www.caribbean360.com/news/the-bahamas-to-ban-single-use-plastics-by-2020, title=The Bahamas to Ban Single-Use Plastics By 2020 {{! Caribbean360, date=2018-04-28, work=Caribbean360, access-date=2018-08-13, language=en-US, archive-date=14 August 2018, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814035939/http://www.caribbean360.com/news/the-bahamas-to-ban-single-use-plastics-by-2020, url-status=dead

References

Non-profit organisations based in the Bahamas Ocean pollution Eleuthera Organizations established in 2014 2014 establishments in the Bahamas