<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">Our beaches are beautiful places to enjoy your Sand Cloud all year round. The salty sea is the ultimate playground, and the sandy shore serves as a great break spot for your much needed R&amp;R.</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="/collections/towels/products/pillow-towel-coral" title="pillow towel coral"><img alt="coral sand" src="//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0819/9793/files/coral-sand_grande.jpg?14102989442363001837" style="float: none; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;">However, our oceans are in danger. There are a staggering amount of threats to our shores and seas. Sadly, while we may have the best intentions, all of us pose a risk to this environment.</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">So what can we do to help? Here at Sand Cloud, we have come up with 14 ways you can help protect marine life and save our beaches.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">1. Take care of your trash (properly)</span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">Be sure to recycle any plastics you use at home or bring to the beach. Always double check your packaging and the bin you are disposing it in to make sure you found the right match.</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">2. Change your packaging</span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">Along with recycling disposable packaging, why not switch to a more eco-friendly option? Try reusable glass, wood, or metal instead. Also, try biodegradable plastics to decrease the amount of leftover packaging littering the shores.</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">3. Feed yourself, not the animals</span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">If you do decide to bring food to the beach, make sure it’s for you, and only you! Don’t disrupt the diets of the animals, such as birds or fishes, that are sharing the shore and sea with you.</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">4. Cut the 6 pack</span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">Don’t worry, you don’t have to cut root beer out of your diet to help out! Simply grab some scissors to cut apart the plastic wrapping of your 6 pack to make sure marine animals don’t get caught in the holes.</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">5. Join a clean-up!</span></h3>
<h4><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you live near the beach, tag along to a local clean-up. Team up with an organization or plan it yourself! Check out</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the <a href="http://www.sandcloudapparel.com/pages/sd-beach-cleanup" title="San Diego Pacific Beach clean-up" style="color: #073763;">San Diego Pacific Beach clean-up</a> we hosted with <a href="http://www.sdcoastkeeper.org/" target="_blank" title="San Diego Coastkeepers" style="color: #073763;">San Diego Coastkeepers</a> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">this past June.</span></span></h4>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="/collections/towels/products/boho-mandala"><img alt="mandala beach" src="//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0819/9793/files/mandala-beach_grande.jpg?14102989442363001837" style="float: none; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">6. Adopt a beach</span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">Wanna go a step further? Take a beach under your wing! As an organization, community, or group, you and fellow beach-lovers can adopt an area to regularly maintain and clean up.</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">7. Contact your local rep</span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">Get political! Call or write your local congressman (or woman!) about important issues facing your ocean community. Be the voice for the marine life that can’t speak up for themselves.</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">8. Consume sustainably caught seafood</span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">If you eat seafood, research the fish you buy and restaurants you eat at to. Make sure you are not contributing to an unethical and unsafe practice.</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">9. Change your sunscreen</span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">Buy organic sunscreens, or look with a sun protectant with safe ingredients. Keep your skin safe from harm, while also decreasing potential threat to the ocean.</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">10. Be an ocean-friendly pet owner</span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">If you bring your pets to the beach, make sure to clean up after them. Even if you are no where near the sea, read pet food labels, never flush cat litter down the drain, and don’t mix wild-caught saltwater fish with your aquarium friends (or the other way around).</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">11. Take a safe trip</span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">When you’re planning on taking your trip off-land, be sure to travel the waters responsibly. Research eco-friendly cruise lines, and be a respectful kayaker, canoer, or boater by acknowledging the presence of marine life (don’t throw anything overboard!).</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">12. Donate to the cause</span></h3>
<h4><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Give money to charity! You can donate to one of our three partners</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or another local organization close to your ocean-loving heart. You can also contribute by supporting a marine national park in your area.</span></span></h4>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="/collections/towels/products/pillow-towel-coral" title="Pillow towel coral"><img alt="girls running" src="//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0819/9793/files/girls-running_grande.jpg?14102989442363001837" style="float: none; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">13. Spread the word</span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #073763;">Hey, why not talk to your family and friends about all you learned? Educate everyone you love so that they can help do their part to protect the oceans we all love.</span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">14. Buy a Sand Cloud!</span></h3>
<h4><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s right, even online shopping helps out! Sand Cloud donates 10% of our net profits</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to protect marine life. (Spending hours on our <a href="http://www.sandcloudapparel.com/collections/towels" title="Sand Cloud Shop" style="color: #073763;">online store</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> isn’t such a guilty pleasure anymore, huh?)</span></span></h4>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow these 14 tips to help keep our beaches safe and clean. Do your part to protect coral reefs, decrease marine litter, and save the lives of ocean animals. </span>Join us in our efforts to keep this ecosystem safe, not just for you and your friends, but for and all the marine life you share the shore with.</span></h3>
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Our beaches are great, but they are also in great danger. In order to protect our shores, the Sand Cloud team has created a list of 14 things you can do to help the cause.

14 ways you can help save our beaches