Greenpeace Plastics Toolkit

We can t escape it in our schools communities and the nature that surrounds us.

Greenpeace plastics toolkit.

Toolkit for a plastic free future. This april greenpeace presented a proposal to ban plastic bags amongst all retailers to the environment select committee at parliament. Because plastic is everywhere it also offers us an incredible opportunity to act. But there is also no shortage of hope innovative solutions and inspiring success stories.

About 90 of the plastic produced to date has not been recycled creating a massive plastic waste and pollution problem. The story of plastic was produced by pale blue dot media in association with react to film. Greenpeace africa alongside numerous other organizations in the breakfreefromplastic movement is campaigning globally to stop the plastic pollution problem at its source the corporations that have created it and the governments that are failing to. A toolkit for a plastic free future.

The equivalent of a truckload worth of plastic enters our oceans every. Key facts and information growing crisis. Supermarkets are starting to talk about what they need to do. Plastic plastic and more plastic.

The flow of plastics into our environment has reached a crisis level and the devastating impact is most evident in our oceans. Because of you we now have a seat at the table. More than 90 of plastic is made from fossil fuel and a recent report by ciel estimates that in 2019 alone the pollution from global plastic production and incineration will equal the emissions of 189 coal fired power plants. The classroom is a great place to start discussing plastic pollution and how to address it.

Download the toolkit now. The same report estimates that by 2050 the greenhouse gas emissions from plastic could make up as much as 10 13 of. Greenpeace supporters have challenged coca cola to use less plastic while countries like the uk have banned certain microplastics. But we need to go much further to end the flow of plastics into the ocean.

More than one million greenpeace change agents have taken action globally over the past year calling on corporations to stop producing single use plastics. The activity aims to name the brands most responsible for the plastic pollution happening in our oceans. Plastic is literally everywhere in the depths of the oceans on mountain peaks in the stomachs of birds and mammals in the food we eat and in the air we breathe. Plastic pollution is a big problem.

A banner reads polluted by single use plastic. Start by downloading the free greenpeace million acts of blue plastic free future toolkit. We re inviting you to be part of a million acts of blue to turn the tide on plastic pollution by taking action to stop it at its source.