Plastic Beach / Kickstarter Call to Action

By Manuel Maqueda | Published: July 12, 2012

Hello everyone and thank you so much for your support.

We wanted to share with you this disturbing video captured by our team on Midway. A beach “cleanup” quickly reveals both the real magnitude of the plastic pollution problem and the shocking fact that we humans are also eating plastic junk, not only figuratively, but quite literally as well.

**CALL TO ACTION** Over 1,200 donors have pledged close to $80,000 to help fund our film. Thank you so much!!

With only 5 days to go (!!) it is critical to enlist more donors as soon as possible! Please visit our Kikstarter and share the link with your networks(on facebook, by email, etc)

http://kck.st/LGdTxs

We really need a final push to reach our goal! Your help is essential to us. Thank you so much!!

The Midway Team

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5 Comments

  1. Albertus Gorman
    Posted July 20, 2012 at 7:18 am | Permalink

    Watching all the tiny plastic fragments wash in with each wave is so upsetting to me. I’m thousands of miles away, but from my project on the Ohio River I’m finding all the same stuff that ends up in the digestive track of an albatross. I hope your film is widely seen and taken to heart.

  2. contabilitate arad
    Posted July 20, 2012 at 9:36 am | Permalink

    the fishes eat plastic? :o

  3. Kak Mong
    Posted February 17, 2013 at 7:11 am | Permalink

    I wonder why there’s no blood found from the birds…

  4. Bocch
    Posted February 18, 2013 at 6:37 pm | Permalink

    So freakin’ sad….

  5. Sheilan
    Posted February 23, 2013 at 5:18 pm | Permalink

    God Bless all of you! Thank you for your efforts on behave of all of us. I am letting others know about you and your film.

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