Plastic Pollution Coalition: campaign vs single use plastic

Key concepts:

• Plastic Pollution Coalition – building a problem-solving social network
• cause-based social networks and their impact
• documenting the cause: amount of plastic produced
• top five sources of single use plastic trash: plastic bags, bottles, to-go containers, cups & straws

The Plastic Pollution Coalition

The Plastic Pollution Coalition is a growing global alliance of organizations, businesses, and thought leaders working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans, animals, and the environment. The Coalition includes more than 500 member organizations and a growing coalition of individuals seeking to increase the understanding of the problems of plastic pollution and find sustainable solutions, while empowering more people and organizations to take action to stop plastic pollution and to live plastic-free. The Coalition produced this video to raise public awareness of the environmental impacts of single use plastic.

They want to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans, animals, and the environment through strategic planning and communication. They concentrate of facts, research, health, and culture. and have a pledge to refuse plastic straws, and request that wherever you go you request they to only serve straws upon request.

The Plastic Pollution Coalition provides Plastic Free Guides for schools, towns, and events.

Ocean Recovery Alliance

The Band U2

The band U2 has joined the Plastic Pollution Coalition and urges fans to choose reusable items over single-use plastic.

Single Use Plastic

Humans produce over 300 million tons of plastic every year, much of it designed for single use. The top five sources of single use plastic are plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic to-go containers, plastic takeaway cups, and plastic straws.

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Plastic Trash

Eight million tons of plastic end up in the worlds’ oceans. Americans alone discard more than 30 million tons of plastic a year; only 8 percent is recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, incinerated, sold to other countries to dispose of, or becomes litter. Plastic ocean debris now outweighs zooplankton by a ratio of 36-to-1. Plastic has a toxic impact on human, animal, and the environmental health. When burned it emits toxic fumes.

See the app @ earthDECKS.org
Saving Our Oceans from Plastic: articles by Zann Gill



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