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The Climate Initiative
Plaine Products is proud to add The Climate Initiative (TCI) to our list of nonprofit partners. The Climate Initiative (TCI) is a nonpartisan, solutions-oriented organization that educates, equips, and activates youth to pursue local, tangible solutions to the climate challenge. In the summer of 2026, they are launching a new plastics-based Learning Lab module that gives educators a ready-to-use, science-grounded resource on plastic pollution. Who Is TCI Through its core Learning Lab educational modules and direct to youth climate leadership programming, TCI reaches young people where they are, in classrooms and communities alike. TCI recognizes that young people are essential to addressing climate change because they build climate awareness among their parents, communities, and decision makers. Through intergenerational conversations and youth-led climate action, TCI creates more vibrant and resilient communities across the country and the world. Plastics Learning Lab TCI’s newest Learning Lab module, co-created with biological oceanographer and microplastics researcher Dr. Jenni Brandon, gives educators a ready-to-use, science-grounded resource on plastic pollution. It reframes microplastics from an ocean issue into a human health issue, helping students see the direct line from plastic waste to their own communities and bodies. The module fits into existing curriculum without a full overhaul, making it easy for teachers to bring this science into the classroom right away. 6th Annual Climate Educators Retreat Plaine Products is proud to be a part of TCI’s flagship event that brings experienced climate educators and pre-service teachers together for three days of hands-on professional development. All of the attendees will get refillable travel-size shampoo and conditioner, and our gallon-size hand wash will be available in the LEEDS Certified dormitories. Educators build climate knowledge, connect with colleagues from across the country, and leave with real curriculum and projects they can bring straight into their classrooms. The retreat takes place at The Ecology School’s living building campus in Saco, Maine, with farm-fresh meals and on-site dormitory lodging included. It always sells out, and this year it leads right into TCI’s Changemakers Evening for Action on July 28th. Changemakers Evening for Action Plaine Products is thrilled to be sponsoring The Changemakers Evening for Action, which closes out TCI’s annual Climate Educators Retreat Week and brings TCI’s whole community together to celebrate the educators doing extraordinary work with Learning Lab resources. Each year, TCI recognizes a small group of teachers with its Changemaker Award, honoring the work they’re doing to build climate resilience in their own classrooms and communities, often with limited time, limited budget, and a whole lot of heart. This event is a chance to put names and faces to the work happening in classrooms across the country, and to bring sponsors, donors, and supporters into the room with the people actually doing it. The evening is open beyond retreat attendees, too, so local supporters, partners, and friends of TCI are part of the celebration.
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Plaine Products & Orange County Coastkeeper: Making Waves for Earth Day
After the incredible enthusiasm and success of our Holiday Sale beach cleanup campaign, we knew we had to do it again—this time for Earth Day! The Holiday Sale campaign showed us just how much our community values sustainability and real-world impact. For every order placed during our Earth Day Sale (April 21-24, 2025), we’ve partnered with Orange County Coastkeeper to remove one pound of trash from our environment. Together, we’re turning sustainable shopping into tangible action. Protecting Our Waters with Orange County Coastkeeper Orange County Coastkeeper is a nonprofit clean water organization dedicated to protecting swimmable, drinkable, and fishable water while promoting watershed resilience throughout the region. Their mission aligns perfectly with ours - keeping plastic out of our oceans and landfills to create a cleaner, healthier planet. Through education, advocacy, restoration, research, enforcement, and conservation, Orange County Coastkeeper actively works to safeguard fresh- and saltwater ecosystems. Their efforts ensure that communities have healthy, accessible, and sustainable water resources for generations to come. By hosting this Earth Day cleanup in Orange County, they’re not only removing trash but also inspiring action and awareness about the importance of protecting our waterways. Why This Matters to Plaine Products At Plaine Products, we believe that small actions lead to big impacts. Our commitment to using refillable aluminum bottles instead of plastic shampoo bottles helps reduce waste before it even begins. By keeping single-use plastics out of circulation, we’re cutting down on pollution, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and promoting a circular economy. Partnering with Orange County Coastkeeper for this Earth Day campaign was a natural extension of our mission. By combining our refillable products with hands-on environmental action, we’re tackling the plastic waste problem from both ends - reducing future waste while cleaning up the past. What’s Next? Our work doesn’t stop here. Plaine Products is committed to continuing our mission of reducing waste and supporting sustainability. Whether it’s through future cleanup initiatives, ongoing partnerships with like-minded organizations, or simply encouraging others to embrace refillable solutions, we’re in this for the long haul. Together, we can make waves—not just on Earth Day, but every day. 🌎💙
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Reducing Single-Use Plastic in a Whole New Way
Plaine Products Partners with Bleu World to Pick Up 547 Pounds of Trash From Holiday Sales This holiday season, Plaine Products teamed up with Bleu World, an ocean conservation organization, to turn your purchases into impactful action. For every order placed during our Holiday Sale, we pledged to pick up one pound of trash, reducing single-use plastic waste in a whole new way. Thanks to your support, we’re thrilled to announce that a total of 547 pounds of trash will be removed from our environment. Together, we’ve made waves of change—and we’re just getting started. Bleu World: Guardians of the Ocean Bleu World is on a mission to protect marine ecosystems through community-based research, cleanups, and education. By hosting regular beach and underwater cleanups, they bring together ocean changemakers who are passionate about conservation, exploration, and science. Their dedication to protecting the oceans aligns seamlessly with Plaine Products’ commitment to reducing plastic waste and promoting sustainability. During this partnership, Bleu World is focusing their cleanup efforts in Southern California, removing trash from beaches and underwater areas to restore these vital ecosystems. Their work goes beyond just picking up litter—they’re fostering a community of conservationists ready to protect our oceans for generations to come. Shared Values, Shared Mission of Reducing Single-Use Plastic At Plaine Products, we’re driven by a simple yet powerful mission: to keep plastic out of our oceans and landfills. We achieve this by offering refillable aluminum bottles for shampoo, conditioner, body wash, and other personal care products. By choosing aluminum over plastic, we’re reducing single-use plastic waste and encouraging others to join us in creating a cleaner, greener planet. Our story began when sisters Lindsey and Alison Delaplaine decided to take a stand against plastic pollution. Lindsey’s decade of living and working in The Bahamas gave her a front-row seat to the devastating impact of plastic waste. Seeing beaches and oceans littered with plastic bottles and debris, she knew something had to change. After reflecting on the amount of plastic in her own bathroom, she called Alison, and together they created Plaine Products to make sustainable living easy and accessible for everyone. Partnering with Bleu World to clean up 547 pounds of trash is a natural extension of our mission. Every bottle we refill, every piece of trash we remove, and every conversation we spark brings us closer to a world with less plastic waste. The Ripple Effect of Your Holiday Purchases This collaboration demonstrates the power of community action. By choosing Plaine Products during our Holiday Sale, you played an active role in removing 547 pounds of trash from the environment. That’s more than just a number—it’s cleaner beaches, healthier marine life, and a step toward a plastic-free future. What’s Next? We’re excited to continue working with Bleu World and other like-minded organizations to amplify our impact. Whether it’s through supporting cleanups, advocating for sustainable practices, or encouraging refillable solutions, we’re committed to creating lasting change. Want to be part of the movement? Keep choosing Plaine Products and spreading the word about sustainable living. Together, we can make a difference—one refillable bottle and one pound of trash at a time. Thank you for helping us make this holiday season one to remember for our planet. Let’s keep the momentum going in the year ahead!
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Oceanic Society
We'd like to introduce you to one of our newest nonprofit partners, Oceanic Society. Oceanic Society's mission is to improve ocean health by deepening the connections between people and nature to address the root cause of its decline: human behavior. For over 50 years, the Oceanic Society has worked to inspire and empower people worldwide to take part in building a healthy future for the world’s oceans. And, they are America’s oldest non-profit organization dedicated to ocean conservation! Through a variety of programs that include everything from reducing ocean plastic pollution, curbing climate change, and saving sea turtles, they are connecting people to the ocean and solving the key ocean problems of our time. One of the ways Oceanic Society drives its mission is through conscientious nature travel. As pioneers of eco-tourism, their expeditions are designed to positively impact the natural areas and human communities they visit, all while delivering transformative nature experiences for their travelers. Their trips focus on deepening the connection between people and nature, and promoting the adoption of ocean-friendly “Blue Habits” – personal actions that improve ocean health. For every traveler that joins an Oceanic Society expedition, they fund four days of beach cleanups through their Plastic Pollution Offset Program, resulting in the removal of an average of 200 pounds of marine debris from the environment, per person. As our founders have a love of travel and the ocean the partnership felt like a natural fit to co-founder and CEO, Lindsey McCoy. "I've lived on a sailboat and we chartered sailboats for family trips whenever we can, so making sure that our products were biodegradable and we could safely use them to shower on the back of the boat were so important to us. We're thrilled that our partnership with the Oceanic Society will mean that more people will get the chance to use our products to ensure less plastic and toxin-free showers while out on the ocean." We are thrilled to support the work of the Oceanic Society through our 1% Percent for the Planet membership and they are also part of our Plaine Promoters program. If you use the coupon code OS20 while shopping online at Plaine Products, you’ll get 20% off your order and an additional 10% will be donated to Oceanic Society.
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Love Blue: Beach Cleanups & Outreach to Help the Ocean
Plaine Products has a new nonprofit Plaine Promoter to announce: Love Blue is working to conserve our oceans through community outreach & organized beach cleanups. Love Blue will help spread the word about Plaine Products' sustainable personal care offerings that are both biodegradable and waste-free. Supporters of Love Blue's mission can use the coupon code LOVEBLUE20 to take 20% off their Plaine Products order and have an additional 10% donated to Love Blue.Love Blue started on July 19th, 2019 when a small group of ocean lifeguards & community surfers who shared a similar idea of oceanic conservation, decided to establish a nonprofit. The work began as small beach cleanups in Wildwood Crest but has now evolved into many active chapters which include: Wildwood Crest, Coastal Carolina University, Stockton University, Rowan University & more. Beach Cleanups and Strategic Partnerships The Wildwood Crest Chapter of Love Blue Inc. hosts regular community beach cleanups, has strategically placed signs to raise awareness, and established public cleanup stations that have been pivotal in maintaining the pristine beauty of their coastline. In a strategic move to further augment its sustainability model, Love Blue Inc. has forged partnerships with two industry-leading organizations: Terracycle and Helpsy. These collaborations represent a fusion of innovative solutions aimed at addressing pressing environmental challenges within the Wildwood Crest community. Despite significant strides in environmental legislation, the issue of cigarette butt litter remains a persistent challenge. Wildwood Crest's transition to a smoke-free beach was a commendable step toward mitigating this issue. However, beach cleanups revealed a concerning trend of increased cigarette butt accumulation along the waterline and bulkheads. In response, Love Blue Inc., in collaboration with Terracycle, aims to deploy cigarette butt collection units at each street end in Wildwood Crest. These receptacles will provide beachgoers with a convenient and responsible means of disposing of their cigarette butts, thereby curbing littering and safeguarding the marine environment. The textile industry represents a significant yet often overlooked contributor to environmental degradation. Helpsy, renowned for its innovative approaches to textile waste management, offers a sustainable solution to this burgeoning problem. Love Blue Inc. plans to integrate Helpsy's textile recycling bins into the community infrastructure, facilitating the responsible disposal and recycling of textiles. Incentivizing Environmental Stewardship Both initiatives implemented by Love Blue Inc. carry a unique giveback incentive, rewarding the community for their collective efforts towards sustainability. Through active participation in cigarette butt collection and textile recycling, residents and visitors alike can contribute to a cleaner, healthier environment while simultaneously supporting Love Blue Inc.'s mission.
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Surfrider's Ocean Friendly Program: How Restaurants Are Reducing Single-Use Plastic
The Surfrider Foundation’s Ocean Friendly Restaurants program works to increase awareness, drive change, and reduce our single-use plastic footprint.
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Plastic Art Inspires and Educates
Looking for a good activity to celebrate Earth Day? Try using plastic trash to create plastic art. Art is a great way to give plastic another life.
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