Hey guys! Mansha, Trinity, and I have created memes to talk about our issues that affect us surrounding plastic pollution. In doing so we hope to spread our ideas to a greater audience so that more people will learn and try to change the world we live in.
Sharing our Memes
Hey guys! Mansha, Trinity, and I have created memes to talk about our issues that affect us surrounding plastic pollution. In doing so we hope to spread our ideas to a greater audience and so that more people will learn and try to change the world we live in.
Memes
To spread awareness of our cause in an eye-catching and interesting way, we created memes about plastic pollution! Spread our hashtag #plastickills to find our posts! Check out our instagram @plasticpollutionsucks for more content! #plastickills on our instagram @plasticpollutionsucks
Join Our Petition!
One of our first steps to achieve a cleaner and brighter future was to take action to limit the amount of plastic bags used by people daily! We hope to accomplish this by creating a petition to make plastic bags at major supermarket and food chains cost an extra fee. We want to reach out … Continue reading Join Our Petition!
JOIN OUR PETITION!
Take some time out of your day to sign our petition to help put a price on plastic bags in supermarkets in order to help reduce plastic pollution, which is one of the biggest things affecting the Earth today: http://chng.it/gqkXPZgS5C -Mansha
Sign Our Petition!!!
Hey Guys, Mansha, Trinity, and I have recently created a petition on change.org to start charging customers for plastic bags at major food chains and supermarkets. We are doing this in hopes that people won't want to spend their money on bags that aren't even reusable and will begin to bring their own when they … Continue reading Sign Our Petition!!!
How Our Plastic Kills Birds
98 percent of albatross eat plastic. Plastic may fill up the stomach, then, there is no more place for food and water and the animal dies. Sometimes plastic can perforate the internal organs, and then the animal dies in agony and suffering. Finally, plastic can carry a deadly collection of toxins into the animal. And then the animal dies. 40 … Continue reading How Our Plastic Kills Birds
The Reality of The Buildup of Our Trash
Instead, we found whole piles of garbage people had left behind on purpose!We didn’t find the occasional can or bottle sitting in the sand ~ we found carefully stacked cases of empty beverage containers that people were too lazy, indolent, or ignorant to take with them when they left.We didn’t find isolated cigarette butts here and there, we … Continue reading The Reality of The Buildup of Our Trash
Why Banning Plastic Bags Is Beneficial
But such public-awareness campaigns can take on a life of their own, and blind us to the real source of the global problem. Single-use plastic-bag bans, drinking-straw bans and elaborate container-deposit schemes are all examples of policies that mix high visibility with scant global impact. Policymakers and legislators in the developed world may favour these … Continue reading Why Banning Plastic Bags Is Beneficial
A Cost-Effective Way to Reduce Plastic Use
Alternatively, a cost-effective way to improve this lack of sustainable thinking is through education. It’s not good enough that annually only 14% of plastics waste is recycled, leaving 54% to be dumped on landfill or incinerated and the remaining 32% left to pollute the ecosystem. Promoting the 3-Rs of ‘reduce-reuse-recycle’ can have a large-scale impact … Continue reading A Cost-Effective Way to Reduce Plastic Use
Plastic Pollution Sucks 