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![When it comes to marine plastics, at the GEF we’re thinking big about systems change and we’re not working alone. Working with partners as diverse as the World Bank, Rare and the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation, we’ve provided over $1B toward sustainable fisheries, marine protected areas, pollution abatement and many other ocean initiatives. Photo: wonderisland/Shutterstock. Close shot of garbage on an empty beach. Photo: wonderisland/Shutterstock.](/sites/default/files/styles/listing_image_290x218/public/MPP3_870.jpg?h=9fc10d39&itok=0NCvd-QK)
From local to global action, saving the ocean requires re-thinking our relationship with single-use plastic
You might care about the 100,000 marine mammals that die annually from plastic and you may be one of the 25 million viewers of the infamous straw-up-the-sea turtle nose video. Or it may simply be that you don’t want to eat and drink plastic, swim in trash or witness more shoreline devastation from…