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Allison Constantino Supports Rise Above Plastics Campaign

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Allison Constantino Supports Rise Above Plastics Campaign

August 26th, 2017 - Orlando, FL

Date: July 29, 2015

Contact: Allison Constantino/Fine Artist

Phone: 407-721-4784

Sebastian Inlet Chapter Surfrider Foundation

www.helpthebeach.com

Media Contact: Josh Pause

321-775-4484

Orlando, FL Artists have the ability, through their artwork, to connect with people on an emotional level.

Local artist Allison Constantino hopes her artwork will connect with people and inspire them to become involved with the new "Rise Above Plastics" campaign, dedicated to reducing the number of single-use merchant plastic bags in the Melbourne Beach area and the neighboring Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge and replacing them with re-usable bags, benefiting sea turtles.

Allison is donating 10% of anything sold on her Fine Art America website for the next 6 months to build awareness of the "Rise Above Plastics" campaign.

www.allison-constantino.artistwebsites.com/

Allison also created a group of 35 fine artists and photographers on Fine Art America called the, "Environmental Art - Specifically Ocean Conservation" group that features over 85 ocean images.

www.fineartamerica.com/groups/environmental-art--specifically-ocean-conservation.html

The "Rise Above Plastics" campaign is designed to help sea turtles and other marine animals by reducing the number of single-use plastic bags in circulation and replacing them with re-usable merchant bags. Sea turtles mistakenly ingest the plastic bags thinking they are jellyfish (their primary food source). When they eat the bags, the plastics get trapped in their stomachs, preventing them from properly swallowing food and they die.

Over 100 million marine animals are killed each year due to plastic debris in the ocean. The average American family will take home approximately 1500 single-use plastic bags every year. More than 85% of those plastic bags are disposed of improperly.

While recycling plastics, including single-use plastic bags, is better than burning them in incinerators, or burying them in landfills, even the plastics recycling process is not without harmful effects on human and environmental health. Plastics melted down during the recycling process causes it to break down and release the chemicals used to make it, including dioxins, into the environment. The best option, according to the Environmental Protection Agency is to reduce use.

Melbourne Beach to Sebastian Inlet has always been a haven for surfers. The water is clearer, the beaches wilder, because of the sparseness of development and according to surfers, the waves, snappier. Sebastian Inlet claims to be home to the best-known wave on the East Coast.

These same beaches are also the most important sea turtle nesting habitat in the northern hemisphere. While sea turtles nest on many beaches, no place comes close to the numbers of density of nesting than in South Brevard County. In 2013, there were 740 nests per kilometer. Researchers have determined that loggerhead and green turtles prefer steep, narrow, high energy, natural beaches and this area fits that description perfectly.

It turns out surfers and sea turtles love Florida's natural beaches!

If you want to help, please visit www.helpthebeach.com to find out how you can make a difference.

The "Rise Above Plastics" campaign is sponsored by the Sebastian Inlet Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation (seastianinlet.surfrider.org/), The Sea Turtle Conservancy (www.conserveturtles.org/) and CERTON (www.certon.com/)

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