California Bag Ban Passed!

If you haven’t heard already, we have just had a HUGE environmental win on August 29^th, 2014 with Senate Bill 270. After eight long hardworking years of Team Marine student involvement, both the California Senate and Assembly have passed a STATE plastic bag ban with a speedy signature from Gov. Jerry Brown expected to follow. We aided efforts with award winning scientific research; testified numerous times in city halls across the county;  marched six times through city streets; created multiple PSA videos and documented six years of storm drain runoff (first flush); We also did eco-artwork;  lobbied three times at the state capitol building; called and wrote our representatives!

Not to mention we leveraged every kind of multimedia including (but not limited to) TV, newspapers, magazines, blogs,radio, podcasts, and books. We collaborated with more than a dozen NGO’s and academic institutions; educated countless audiences with lesson plans, speeches, and booth presentations; Tweeted, Instagrammed, Face Booked , and blogged continuously on our website approaching 1 million page views. After all of this we finally won!

Special thanks to the entire Clean Seas Coalition, Leslie Tamminen, and all who contributed to this multi-year effort. Here’s to progress and youth making a difference!

Check out what Team Marine did to help make this possible below: