{"id":219521,"date":"2019-07-19T02:35:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T02:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/?p=219521"},"modified":"2019-07-19T02:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T02:41:03","slug":"synchronized-swimmers-perform-their-world-championship-routine-in-a-pool-filled-with-plastic-waste-and-the-reaction-was-priceless-t1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/synchronized-swimmers-perform-their-world-championship-routine-in-a-pool-filled-with-plastic-waste-and-the-reaction-was-priceless-t1\/","title":{"rendered":"Synchronized Swimmers Perform Their World Championship Routine In A Pool Filled With Plastic Waste And The Reaction Was Priceless"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_219523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219523\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-219523\" src=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/big-bang-fair-swimming-in-it-2.jpg.860x0_q70_crop-scale-400x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/big-bang-fair-swimming-in-it-2.jpg.860x0_q70_crop-scale-400x264.jpg 400w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/big-bang-fair-swimming-in-it-2.jpg.860x0_q70_crop-scale-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/big-bang-fair-swimming-in-it-2.jpg.860x0_q70_crop-scale-640x423.jpg 640w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/big-bang-fair-swimming-in-it-2.jpg.860x0_q70_crop-scale-255x168.jpg 255w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/big-bang-fair-swimming-in-it-2.jpg.860x0_q70_crop-scale.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source:https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two teen swimmers from Britain performed a synchronized routine in a swimming pool filled with plastic to show the reality of how sea animals live in their polluted home everyday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>17-year-old Kate Shortman and 18-year-old Isabelle Thorpe of Bristol, England attempted to perform their World Championship synchro routine while plastic bags were getting caught on their legs and heads every time they came up for air. Bottles and trash were floating everywhere as they dove underwater for the dance.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript'>\nif (detectWidth() < 768) { \ndocument.write(\"<div style='text-align:center;'><span style='text-align:center; font-size:12px; color:#777;'>Advertisement<\/span><center><!-- TA_MOB_G1_BTF3_300x250 t4\/2+ fb (content) --><div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/117607917\/TA_MOB_G1_BTF3_300x250'><\/div><\/center><\/div>\");\n} else { document.write('<div id=\\'wi-194906\\'><\/div>'); jQuery('#wi-194906').closest('.side-widget').hide();\n}\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nif (detectWidth() < 768) {document.write('<div id=\\'wi-193994\\'><\/div>'); jQuery('#wi-193994').closest('.side-widget').hide(); \n} else { \ndocument.write(\"<div style='text-align:center;'><span style='text-align:center; font-size:12px; color:#777;'>Advertisement<\/span><center><!--TA_G1_BTF1_728V in content --><div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/117607917\/TA_G1_BTF1_728V'><\/div><\/center><\/div>\");\n}\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>This performance was requested by the Big Bang Fair organizers for the annual science fair they hold that is catered to up-and-coming scientists and engineers in order to raise awareness of the existing state of the oceans. A powerful statement about the effects of all the plastic waste pollution on in the planet was written on the Big Bang Fair blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Unsurprisingly, [the] young synchro pair&#8230; struggled to perform their routine swimmingly in a training pool littered with thousands of items of floating plastic. Getting in the way of their normally effortless-looking performance were hundreds of single-use plastic drinking bottles, not to mention a &#8216;sea&#8217; of plastic toiletries, plastic bags and plastic food containers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watching this performance will make any person uncomfortable, thinking of swimming around all that garbage, and yet this is what fish, birds and marine life experience every day in the oceans. The feeling of guilt can also be an accompaniment because each citizen has made a contribution to this waste, in one way or another.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_219524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219524\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-219524\" src=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/105987593_db72d301-8701-4c5a-b5a8-8810e9ada6a2-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/105987593_db72d301-8701-4c5a-b5a8-8810e9ada6a2-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/105987593_db72d301-8701-4c5a-b5a8-8810e9ada6a2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/105987593_db72d301-8701-4c5a-b5a8-8810e9ada6a2-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/105987593_db72d301-8701-4c5a-b5a8-8810e9ada6a2-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/105987593_db72d301-8701-4c5a-b5a8-8810e9ada6a2-255x143.jpg 255w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/105987593_db72d301-8701-4c5a-b5a8-8810e9ada6a2.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source:https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript'>\nif (detectWidth() < 768) {document.write('<div id=\\'wi-194140\\'><\/div>'); jQuery('#wi-194140').closest('.side-widget').hide(); \n} else { \ndocument.write(\"<div style='text-align:center;'><center><!-- \/117607917\/TA_G_1x1_outstream t4 --><!-- div data-outstream='inarticle'><\/div --><div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/117607917\/TA_G_1x1_outstream'><\/div><\/center><\/div>\");\n}\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nif (detectWidth() < 768) { \ndocument.write(\"<div style='text-align:center;'><center><!-- \/117607917\/TA_G_1x1_outstream t4\/fb 2+ --><!-- div data-outstream='inarticle'><\/div --><div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/117607917\/TA_MOB_G_1x1_outstream'><\/div><\/center><\/div>\");\n} else { document.write('<div id=\\'wi-195018\\'><\/div>'); jQuery('#wi-195018').closest('.side-widget').hide();\n}\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wasteful consumption habits, along with ignorant commercial packaging design on the manufacturer\u00b4s end is a continuing force that drives the absurd amount of plastic into the oceans and other bodies of water.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, there is already an existing 150 million tons of trash found in the oceans, and in every minute that passes, a truckload more of plastic is thrown into the ocean which totals to eight million tons of trash a year that gets dumped to the home of sea animals. This amount will be doubled in 2030 if nothing is done to prevent this from being a daily occurrence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe that plastic pollution affects all depths of the ocean and its habitants. 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