A growing Crisis

Why should I be curious or interested in this campaign and movement?

Plastic doesn't stay in the ocean. It comes back. Microplastics are now in human blood, in the placentas of unborn children, in breast milk. Scientists are linking this to inflammation and hormone disruption.

What we called an environmental problem is now a health crisis.

That's why End Plastic Soup Portugal — with EndPlasticSoup.org and Rotary clubs in over
70+ countries — won't let 2026 be a repeat.

Week of the Sea Without Plastic (WSWP) \ Semana do Mar Sem Plástico enters year two with one goal: turn a successful campaign into a lasting movement, reaching every school, coastline, and dinner table in Portugal — before the next generation inherits a problem we could have stopped.