Ellen DeGeneres: How to keep beaches clean without leaving home
Are you a beach lover? Imagine not being able to set foot on the beach ever again. Imagine, years later, not being able to take your kids to the beach. We’d just have to tell them, that long ago, you could actually set foot in the water and SWIM in it. And the kids would say, “Eeeeew, you would swim in THAT?!”
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In The Green Book, comedienne Ellen DeGeneres shares what she learned about how we can help keep our beaches clean without leaving the house.
“People don’t realize how little it takes to change our world for the better. Here’s something I didn’t know: I thought that all the oil in our oceans was caused by tanker spills. It’s not. I learned that twenty-four million out of the twenty-nine million gallons of oil that go into North America’s oceans each year are caused by human activities. Twenty-four million gallons of oil!…What happens is we pour cooking oil into our sinks, top off our gas tanks, and hose down grease from our cars into storm drains, then it goes into our oceans. We can fix that. Put your cooking oil into a container and throw it into the garbage… These are things we can do…”
Ellen DeGeneres got her start in show business by first doing stand-up comedy. She later went on to star in sitcoms and a couple of movies before finally settling on her current show, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”.
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She is also well-known for her work as the voice Dory in Disney and Pixar’s “Finding Nemo” and has had the honor of hosting the Academy Awards. She has also been nominated for the Emmy Awards.
There are numerous ways to keep our beaches clean. Aside fom disposing of our trash properly, we can lend our time to beach clean ups or non-profits that safeguard our oceans, such as the World Wildlife Fund.
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