ARE YOU READY?
ARE YOU READY?
Media Pictures For The Campaign
This is where you’ll find our latest media photos for the ‘Are You Ready’ campaign. If you have a high quality image of plastic bags in the environment that you’d like us to use here, please click here to send it to us.
Turtle with plastic bag
Photo courtesy of Ron Prendergast, Melbourne Zoo
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This picture says it all.
This turtle was found and rescued by a senior staff member of Melbourne Zoo while they were out doing fieldwork.
A dying whale
Photo courtesy of ‘The Cairns Post’
This is a picture of a Bryde’s whale that beached itself in Cairns in 2000. A local TV station filmed it as it writhed in agony. Despite the efforts of local volunteers, it died shortly after.
An autopsy found that the whale’s stomach was tightly packed with six square metres of plastic – too much of this was plastic bags.
Ron Clarke and Jon Dee launch campaign to get councils promoting the plastic bag phase-out
Ron Clarke and Jon Dee
Jon Dee and Ron Clarke launch the ‘Are You Ready’ plastic bag phase-out campaign. The Planet Ark Founder and Olympic legend joined forces to get Councils involved in the ‘Are You Ready’ plastic bag phase-out campaign.
Over five years ago, the duo launched the highly successful ‘National Plastic Bag Campaign’ to lobby for a ban or levy on plastic bags.
