We are living in a plastic planet. Plastic pollution issues are growing exponentially every year as we are producing more than 300 million tons of plastic. Most of the plastics used are single-use which ends up in our oceans. This issue can be solved by educating and engaging everyone in a conversation to rethink plastic.
Drop It Youth (DIY) campaign empowers students to raise awareness around their community, encouraging their family, their school and the wider community to reduce and remove all single-use plastic from their everyday life.
I want to encourage the use of paper bags and cloth/jute bags in my community and to discard the use of plastics bags. I want to spread the message that “Plastic is not our body’s best friend”. I want to convince people to stop using single-use plastic bottles, cups, bags and straws and to switch to filtered tap water.
More and more cosmetics contain micro beads. Tiny particles of plastic have been added to thousands of personal care cosmetic products (toothpaste, make-up, facial soaps etc.…).These micro plastics are a hazard to our environment. These get washed down into our oceans and enter our food chain. Fish ingest micro plastics and then we humans also end up eating it.
Let’s take a pledge to reduce single-use plastics and put an end to plastic pollution.
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