Oyan Villanueva
South East Asia
Melanie Lewis
Oceania
1 kg of plastic equals 3 kg CO2-equivalents
On average 1 kg of plastic equals 3 kg CO2-equivalents for production and incineration 44% of all plastic consumption is packaging, mostly related to food. Multiply your waste by an average of 2 for the avoidance of CO2 for production or 3 when including incineration. Currently most plastic waste is still being burned (or exported)…
Live your life plastic free
Tips to use less plastic @home, while shopping & travelling.
Towards Plastic Free Clubs
Tips to reducte plastic waste at club meetings.
Plastic Free Events
Tips to use less plastic at events and have waste-free events
Fish sculpture to collect plastic waste
Place a work of art on the beach or an other busy area to make people more aware of plastic pollution and the need for waste collection.
Photo, video or Art contest
Organize a photo or video contest and exhibition, when possible an auction.
Prick-nic
Organize a ’green’ picnic and have a cleanup to ‘prick’ waste.
390 million tons of plastic production every year
Source: Plastic Atlas 2019 Plastic Soup Foundation Some figures on plastic production: The amount of plastic that is produced in the world every year has increased from 2 million tons in 1950 to 390 million tons in 2021 (figures from the plastics industry https://plasticseurope.org). 56% of the plastic is produced after 2000; The expectation is…