This is a bit of a short notice, but from tomorrow, the 16th May 2022, to the 22nd May (over the week) the Big Plastic Count is taking place. It's a huge event, that has got over 150,000 participants, all of whom are schools, communities, businesses, families etc. They are striving to get to 200,000 people! It's an investigation that counts the amount of plastic we use and throw away in a week and it's the UK's biggest national investigation, brought together by Greenpeace and Everyday Plastic. The goal is to make the government reduce single use plastic by 50% by 2025.
To take part all you have to do is go onto their website and sign up. Then you get to tally (which you can download and print off or do online) of the types of plastic you use that week. After that, you will get your 'plastic footprint' and with the national results they'll try to push the government into action. Click here to get to the Big Plastic Count website.
We need to reduce plastic waste because recycling things isn't gong to do the entire job. Reducing plastic helps to reduce pollution because we're using less raw materials (which are bad because they result in biodiversity loss, soil degradation etc), saves money because, for example, you're not buying a plastic bottle everyday when you have a metal one, and, of course, reduces the amount of waste going into landfills and incinerators. Different types of plastics decompose at different speeds, but it could take from 50-600 years to do so, but we just keep buying and throwing away more and more (over 90% of it isn't recycled) because it's just a cheap and comfortable thing to use. Click here to find out more.
Thank you so much for reading this week's post. I hope I can go back to weekly posts, but for now it might just be fortnightly. See you next time!
Violet
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