Sport Challenge
Information to support sport clubs to reduce plastic.
School Challenge
Education and cleanup actions for awareness.
Shop & Restaurant Challenge
Cooperate with local shops and restaurants to reduce plastic.
River, Lake, Bay & Beach Clean-up
Organize a clean-up action or adopt a river, beach etc.
Event & Meeting Challenge
Become zero-waste at Rotary events and meetings.
How many plastic bottles do we produce?
How many plastic bottles do we produce? Our planet is flooded with single use plastics such as plastic bottles. Did you know that globally, we produce about 1 million plastic bottles every minute? What does that number even look like? This Studio Birthplace production – made with CG partners Method and Madness – makes the…
Where the Western world send their plastic scrap
All over the world countries are exporting their plastic waste to other destinations. The UK exports almost 430.000 tons and the USA almost 790.000 tons (figures 2018). Source: https://www.boell.de/en/plasticatlas; Graphic: PLASTIC ATLAS | Appenzeller/Hecher/Sack, CC BY 4.0. All countries should stop exporting their waste problem to other countries. Source: https://www.boell.de/en/plasticatlas More facts and figures Heinrich Böll…
Only 0.5% of the plastic in the ocean floats on the surface of the water, the rest drifts deeper in the water
Plastic that ends up in the sea accumulates on beaches, in the water and on the seabed. Most of the plastic pollution is under water. Marine organisms such as fish absorb (micro) plastics and these end up in our food chain. Source: https://www.grida.no/resources/6904 Maphoto/Riccardo Pravettoni) https://www.grida.no/resources/6904