You can do much more than just carrying your own bag when shopping for groceries. We need a change in our consumer behaviour: We need to ditch the disposable, single-use items.
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Sources:
- Huge plastic waste footprint revealed | March 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39279392 - Plastic Pollution in the World’s Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea | December 2014
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0111913 - ‘Extraordinary’ levels of pollutants found in 10km deep Mariana trench | February 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/13/extraordinary-levels-of-toxic-pollution-found-in-10km-deep-mariana-trench
Read more:
💚 Ending plastic waste with big promises? by Irene Banos Ruiz | DW News October 2018
💚 How Ocean Pollution affects humans [Infographic]
💚 How much of the Plastic is actually Recycled? [Infographic]
Go Zero Waste! 💚
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