COSTA PROJECTS & INITIATIVES
partners to eliminate single-use plastic water bottles from their operations. To date, participants in 14 countries have eliminated more than 3.25 million single-use plastic water bottles—and counting. Learn more at costadelmar.com/kickplastic
KICK PLASTIC®
We’ve seen an increasing amount of marine plastic pollution on our adventures. Plastic is not only building up our landfills, but is finding its way into our waterways and oceans at an unprecedented rate. Kick Plastic® is an initiative launched by Costa in 2015 to help reduce the amount of plastic we use as a brand and to mobilize a movement to encourage others to cut back on the amount of single-use plastic they use as well. We launched the Kick Plastic Guide & Outfitter program in 2016 to challenge our fishing communities and
LENS RECYCLING In 2018, we started a program to inspire our eyecare professional partners across the country to Kick Plastic as well. More than 750 optical retailers have joined the movement, sending in more than 4 tons of polycarbonate demo lenses to our recycling partner, Piedmont Plastics. We also work to reduce and eliminate single-use plastic at all events, including trade shows, activations and corporate functions. Our largest
KICK PLASTIC GUIDE AND OUTFITTER SPOTLIGHT Casa Vieja Lodge is a Kick Plastic campus, eliminating all single-use plastic bottles both at the lodge, and aboard the 9-boat fleet. All anglers receive a YETI Rambler upon arrival at Casa Vieja Lodge. Two Elkay water fountain and bottle filling stations are installed at the Lodge, where clients can refill their YETI Ramblers during their stay. This water goes through a 4-stage filtration system, including a UV purification process and providing pure, clean drinking water at Casa Vieja Lodge.
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