"Our Plastic Oceans" with Chris Watts

My guest on the podcast this week is Chris Watts founder and CEO of Motion Dynamics. This is the second time that Chris has been on the “Over Forty Wellness Podcast”. Check out the episode “Posture Matters” issued in September 2020. 

 Chris, amongst others has been selected by the Adventure Clean Up Challenge (ACUC) to join a team of beach clean-up challenges around Hong Kong. This is the 3rd year of the campaign to create awareness of the plastic blight in and on our beaches and oceans around Hong Kong. This year there are 15 teams of 10 to 12 volunteers all adventure, sporty, fitness enthusiasts making waves to let everyone know that we can change our buying habits to reduce waste.

 The discussion in the podcast is wide ranging.  It focuses on what we, the general public can do to help tackle the big issues around the plastic blight both on an individual level and collectively. What are the health consequences? And what can we do to mitigate the problems. Chris shares his story and the initiatives he is taking as an individual and as a member of the Adventure Clean Up Challenge.

Timings
3:58 The podcast ... is about our plastic seas, Our plastic oceans...Its an Adventure Clean Up Challenge(ACUC)...related to our dirty beaches.
5:17 You cannot ignore the environment...thesere is more plastic in the oceans than there are fish...
8:06 Its 1.6m square Kilimetresof plastic in the Pacific Ocean...
9:45 We really need to stop it at source...there are shops that refuse to sell plastics...
12:36 500bn plastic bags are produced each year .... use canvas bags...
14:42 If you go to a place like MANA ...they recycle everything...
16:35 Buy goods that are loose...buy paper packaging ...take a stainless steel bottle...
19:03 we had 2 bags each that we were given..a lot of big companies are behind this...every mile of beach there are 150 bottles- on average ... and then there is styrofoam...it creates minibeads...
21:41 We have to go back to source...cause and effect...
23:35 Organisations to contact : see below - you have to educate everyone...Plastic Oceans, ACUC : http://www.adventurecleanup.org/
https://www.vcycle.com.hk
25:33 We should get involved with these fun organisations -  contact details below.
27:27 This is something that is so simple to do ...
28:35 I am still a PADDY Master Scuba Diving Instructor...my incentive is diving and the sea...
32:03 We have to start with US...you are your environment...you have to have governments that back it ...we are the future...
33:49 We all have opportunities to put something back...
34:50 A good podcast : Trash Talks..., The Blue Planet by David Attenborough...
36:15 Eating more plant based .... Dr Dean Ornish - an American Physician... We need to reduce our meat...[for vegetables] We need to eat the rainbow...we are always regenerating...Buy food that is nutritionally good...
Quote: You Are You Environment

General Contact Info:
Plastic Oceans
ACUC : http://www.adventurecleanup.org/
VCycle: https://www.vcycle.com.hk
https://www.Instagram.com/adventurecleanup/
https://www. Facebook.com/adventurecleanup
https://www.Facebook.com/ManaFastSlowFood

Contact Chris
https://motiondynamics.com.hk
https://www.Instagram.com/motion_dynamicsltd
Https://www.Facebook.com/chris.watts2

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