Plastic Pollution
In the wake of perpetual natural disasters, can we keep our heads covered in the sand over contamination and environmental change issues? And even if we do lift our heads momentarily will we feel too overpowered to make a move?
The fact is that we cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
This blog post is about plastic pollution
Scientists have been telling us for years about animals around the world suffocating from plastic bags in our seas and about marine life ingesting residual microplastics that ultimately travel up the food chain into our own anatomies and that of our children. But still, people close their eyes to these facts and refuse to take the responsibility for this global problem that humans alone have created.
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By refusing disposable plastic we can reduce the amount of toxic plastic waste that slowly destroys our planet and improve the health of the oceans and the environment around us including human health and animal health. It is not too late. If we start now by doing little things, changes can happen.
But, first of all, let us educate ourselves about the overwhelming facts about plastic pollution.
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THE FACTS
We have developed a “disposable” lifestyle and estimates are that around 50% of plastic is used just once and thrown away.
- Packaging is the largest end-use market segment accounting for just over 40% of total plastic usage.
- Annually approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. More than one million bags are used every minute.
- A plastic bag has an average “working life” of 15 minutes.
- Over the last ten years, we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.
5 THINGS YOU CAN START DOING TODAY
- STOP USING PLASTIC STRAWS - in the US and UK alone 550 million plastic straws thrown away every day
- DRINK BEVERAGE FROM REUSABLE BOTTLES OR CUPS - worldwide over 500 million plastic bottles used every day
- USE REUSABLE GROCERY BAGS - worldwide up to 1 trillion plastic bags discarded every year.
- SAY NO TO PLASTIC WRAP
- USE REUSABLE CONTAINERS FOR YOUR SANDWICH AND SNACK
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Sources:
https://www.plasticoceans.org/
http://plasticchange.org/
https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/
http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/
https://myplasticfreelife.com/plasticfreeguide/
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