Towards Plastic Free Clubs
Tips to reducte plastic waste at club meetings.
Tips to reducte plastic waste at club meetings.
Tips to use less plastic at events and have waste-free events
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.
Organize a photo or video contest and exhibition, when possible an auction.
Organize a ’green’ picnic and have a cleanup to ‘prick’ waste.
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…
More and more results from research are available showing that plastic pollution has a major impact on health. About 95 additives in plastics are poisonous however still little is known about the dangers. We now do know additives impact our hormone system (‘Endocrine Disruption’), impact the unborn child and reduce fertility among males and females.…
Scientists detected nanoplastics of different types in the snow at a remote high-altitude site in the Alps. Air transport modelling indicates regional and long-range transport of nanoplastics, originating preferentially from European urban areas. These urban areas are important sources of nanoplastics at this site, however the research showed that nanoplastics also travelled from across the…