Earth Day is a global event celebrated on April 22 by more than 1 billion people in 192 countries every year. Today, Earth Day 2018 theme is ‘End Plastic Pollution’.
The exponential growth of plastics is now threatening the survival of our planet, from poisoning our oceans and land, and injuring our marine life, to disrupting human hormones and affecting our health, from littering our beaches and landscapes to clogging our waste streams and landfills.
According to Earth Day Network, this year’s Earth Day is dedicated to providing the information and inspiration needed to eventually end plastic pollution.
End Plastic Pollution campaign includes four major components:
- Leading a grassroots movement to support the adoption of a global framework to regulate plastic pollution;
- Educating, mobilizing and activating citizens across the globe to demand that governments and corporations control and clean up plastic pollution;
- Educating people worldwide to take personal responsibility for plastic pollution by choosing to reject, reduce, reuse and recycle plastics, and
- Promoting local government regulatory and other efforts to tackle plastic pollution.
Let’s join the fight to reduce plastic pollution. The Plastic Pollution Primer and Action Toolkit will help you determine actions you can take to reduce plastic pollution footprint.
What can you do?
The 5 Rs:
- Reduce
- Refuse
- Reuse
- Recycle
- Remove
On Earth Day, let us strive together to make our earth habitable. You don’t have to wait for Earth Day to show your love for Mother Earth we call home. May we treat her with more kindness, respect and love. Remember that every day is Earth Day.
Read this useful Earth Day Tips and take the Earth Day Quiz. Learn how you can make a difference.
“We must care for the earth so that it may continue as God willed, to be a source of life for the entire human family.” – Pope Francis