You can organize an EndPlasticSoup presentation, a Theme evening or a Plastic Collage workshop for your club or your local community, and invite presenters to explain:
Understand the real problem: Microplastics never go away and are everywhere around us:
- In plankton the oceans worldwide – plankton is at the start of our food chain. Our oceans take care of ±60% of the carbon dioxide absorption of our planet.
- Plankton is a major contributor to this carbon absorption. The fertility and functioning of plankton has been reduced in the past 15 years due to temperature rise and also because of microplastics.
This has an impact on climate change. Plankton is also responsible for 60-70% of the oxygen production on our planet: the oceans are our lungs. - Microplastics impact fertility and hormone systems of all life on our planet, and therefore impacts biodiversity on land, soil, air, and in the oceans, killing marine live and other animals.
- Being aware of the impact on our health: Microplastics are in the air and in our bodies, threatening our health. More research is needed to understand the impact on the unborn child, our hormone system and brain diseases.
Avoiding the problem: burning waste to energy and plastic recycling are not the solution. We need to rethink our economy and our consumption behavior: start ‘upstream’ in a holistic way, reduce the use of new plastic and reduce single-use unnecessary plastics, create a new plastics circular economy, becoming ‘regenerative’ for all materials and resources.
