Ryan's Recycling

I’m excited to be featured by Canvas Rebel Magazine this week. Read the interview here.

This post is about a trip I took with OceanX last Fall. I couldn’t post about it until OceanX officially posted it up but it was so amazing. My last time on the Ellen Degeneres show, the show gave me a trip with OceanX. We flew from LAX to Mallorca, Spain and then after a few days, off to Nice, France and Monaco. Once we were in Monaco, we took a small boat out to OceanX’s big OceanXplorer ship and I got a tour of the ship and met the entire crew. We jumped in a mini-sub and went underwater for 2 hours checking out a sunken ship and I actually recycled a glass bottle I found at the bottom of the ocean. The mini-sub has a controller arm on the front that I was able to use to pick up the bottle. There was only three people in each sub so my dad and I went in one with our sub captain and my mom went in the other sub with the film crew.

I saw so many fish and jellyfish and learned all about OceanX’s mission. After the mini-sub adventure, we stayed in Monaco for another night and then back to Mallorca for a few days and then back home. I met so many amazing people on this trip, Ocean X gave me a new GoPro to use on my adventures and OceanX’s founder, Ray Dalio wrote me a nice note in his book that he signed for me. Thanks Ray!

If you’re not already following OceanX on YouTube, do yourself a favor and check out their Youtube Channel!

Here’s a fun video of my trip

Thank you OceanX!

My friends at KTLA had me in to promote Earth Day, talk about what I do and my upcoming speaking event at OutSchool this month. Aside from the 2 hours of traffic from Orange County to Los Angeles, I had a great time. If you didn’t catch the segment, you can see it here. Happy Earth Day everyone!

This was the second year we did this beach clean up at Rosie’s Dog Beach in Long Beach. It was a lot of fun! The LA Kings and the Anaheim Ducks teamed up and we all cleaned up the beach together. Last year, we picked up 500 lbs of trash and this year we beat that amount with 565 lbs. Thank you Project Love Drop for the awesome burritos and thank you to EVERYONE who came and volunteered at the event. See you all again next year!

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I had a great time partnering with the Anaheim Ducks again this year for the annual GREEN NIGHT. We had my Ryan’s Recycling and Project3R canopies up at each entrance to the Honda Center and we gave raffle tickets to everyone who recycled a can or a bottle with me before the game. One of the lucky winners won an autographed team jersey! Thank you to my helpers from Project3R and everyone with the Ducks organization for making this happen. I got to go down on the ice prior to the game and meet Mason McTavish and I met Adam Henrique and Lukas Dontal while filming promos the previous week. How cool is that?! #GoDucks

Thank you to the Anaheim Ducks Foundation for supporting Project3R.

Today we decided to take a photo of all the beach toys I’ve found over the past 18 months of cleaning up my local beach. They were left behind on the beach at the end of the day or washed up on shore. I’m estimating this is from approx. 200 hours at 75 beach clean ups. The broken toys get recycled and all the good toys are being donated to kids in Ghana in a few months. Beach toys are more fun than other plastic pollution but they still hurt the environment when left behind to break down. Please pack out what you packed in when going to the beach, mountains or any other nature spot.

Thank you GRIMM PRESS 格林文化 for featuring me in your new book: 366 Century Today. (366 Real Stories of Inspiration)