Ocean Hero
By Jocelynn Nguyen | Magnolia Key Club Annually, there are 18 billion pounds of plastic waste entering our oceans, threatening our marine life. Just by searching the web, you can save the ocean with every five searches made with Ocean Hero and they’ll recover one ocean bound plastic bottle to reduce the amount of pollution in the ocean. Similar to other search engines, Ocean Hero obtains revenue from ads and with every search users make. However, they use the money to pay people in need and poverty to collect plastic bottles that were bound to get to the ocean at plastic collection centers. Plastic bottles can also be exchanged for tuition or sanitation purposes. During the month of November, one of Magnolia Key Club’s service projects included using a search engine called “Ocean Hero.” Ever since I’ve heard of it, I’ve made this my search engine and I haven’t come across any problems with my browsing experience. Ocean Hero is simple to use and navigate. It also comes with a beautiful feature called ocean mode which can change your home page’s background to a marine related image.
