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World Environment Day: campaign to stop plastic pollution – eSHOP24X7
Every year worldwide, 40 million tons of plastic are produced, of which around 50 percent are prepared to be used only once. Only 10 percent of the plastic returns to cycles.
1.9 to 2.3 million tons of plastic enter our lakes, rivers and oceans. If current trends continue, plastic production will double in 2040, and by 2060 can touch 1.2 billion tons per year.
Plastic pollution is corrupting every corner of our land, but it is a threat to ecosystems, wildlife and human health.
Now microplastic and fine plastic particles are found in our food, water, air, lungs, arteries, brain and mother milk. Plastic pollution is no longer the problem of the environment, it has also become an economic and health burden.
To deal with this great challenge, the ‘Tide Turners Plastic Challenge’ of the United Nations Environment Program (Tide Turners Turners is a global youth campaign that is aimed at dealing with plastic pollution, waste.
In a town in Uttar Pradesh, a female group is turning plastic waste into a jacket that saves life.
This initiative empowers young people from 11 to 35 years to lead to leadership by reducing plastic use, changing behavior and promoting continuous efforts at the local level.
This initiative started from Kenya has now extended to 61 countries, some 10 young Lakh have joined this campaign.
In India also, this campaign has progressed quickly: since 2019, more than 7.5 LAKH of young people have become part of which more than 1.5 Lakh, more than 500 villages are from the villages. The special thing is that 51 percent of women and girls have been participating in these programs.
Small steps, big changes
Rajasthan’s pilgrimage, workshops focused on zero waste and public awareness are working.
In Assam, the disciple has begun to make salvation jackets of the life of plastic waste. This initiative is now being adopted in the villages located on the shores of the Yamuna River.
In the rural areas of Madhya Pradesh, 25 tribal women are making plastic plates instead of plastic, and so far more than 100 young people have been trained.
In Kanyakumari, an institution called Sunbird Pelgus taught 22 rural women to make 40 thousand bio-disappointments from coconut garbage every week, which allowed the end of the use of 2 Lakh plastic straws and reduce 450 kg of carbon dioxide emissions.
In Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, utensils are becoming textile banks and cooperatives, improving hygiene and local media.
In schools and government institutions throughout the country, environmental awareness is included in politics, education and daily life.
From the Agra District Education Training Institute (Diet) to the Delhi schools, the training of training teachers is added.
This change is for Sarvajan. The blind Mohammad Azlan made garbage dumps on his university campus, promoted composting and advocated options without plastic.
In Tamil Nadu, 42 green workers supported by the Government were 543 schools and taught more than 18 thousand students and launched a tree planting campaign.
From these examples, it is clear that when young people, communities and institutions work together, a new story is formed: a continuous and green future.
The Chief of Education and Youth Defenders of the UNPP, Sam Barrett, says: “There are two main words of change for me: hope and humility. Without humility we stop learning. And without hope, we lose human possibilities.
The goodwill messenger of the United Nations Secretary, actress Dia Mirza, said in a UNEP program in Delhi, “when the information not only touches the intellect, but also the feelings, then the person only changes. And this change helps change the behavior.”
The United Nations Chief in India, Shombi Sharp also said: “Plastic pollution is a crisis that we can resolve. His solutions exist: we just have to change the way to do, use and reuse.”
