By the time I finish this sentence, 12 million pounds of carbon dioxide will have been released into the air. By the time I finish talking, 36,000kgs, or 6 rubbish trucks worth of rubbish, mostly plastic will be dumped into the ocean. By this time tomorrow, 5000 people will have died from drinking contaminated water.
Do you want to be remembered as part of the species that killed the earth? At this rate, that’s how it’s going to become. Over 30 billion tons of urban sewage is dumped into lakes, rivers and oceans every year! According to Food and Water Watch, approximately 3.5 billion people in 2025 will face water shortage issues. That’s almost half of today’s population!
All over the world, pollution continues to grow and get worse. Every …show more content…
It may not seem like much, that one little plastic bottle you threw into the ocean, but that bottle is never going to bio-degrade. It’ll just break down into tinier and tinier pieces that will end up in the stomachs of marine animals that mistake it for food. Every year, our plastic kills over one million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals in the ocean. The birds starve. They die. They decay. And inside, their stomachs are filled with bits of plastic trash, which still has not …show more content…
Every day, the average person produces about 2kg of waste, and nearly 70% of waste found in rubbish bins can be recycled. You can help lower this percentage by simply reusing plastic bags or not using plastic bags at all, recycling your aluminium cans, composting your food waste…There are thousands of simple - and affordable - possibilities for recycling. Imagine just how much better it would be for the environment if that plastic bottle had been recycled instead of thrown it out. When I realized what difference this could make, I stopped using disposable bottles altogether, and got a proper, reusable drink bottle instead. And you can
Do you want to be remembered as part of the species that killed the earth? At this rate, that’s how it’s going to become. Over 30 billion tons of urban sewage is dumped into lakes, rivers and oceans every year! According to Food and Water Watch, approximately 3.5 billion people in 2025 will face water shortage issues. That’s almost half of today’s population!
All over the world, pollution continues to grow and get worse. Every …show more content…
It may not seem like much, that one little plastic bottle you threw into the ocean, but that bottle is never going to bio-degrade. It’ll just break down into tinier and tinier pieces that will end up in the stomachs of marine animals that mistake it for food. Every year, our plastic kills over one million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals in the ocean. The birds starve. They die. They decay. And inside, their stomachs are filled with bits of plastic trash, which still has not …show more content…
Every day, the average person produces about 2kg of waste, and nearly 70% of waste found in rubbish bins can be recycled. You can help lower this percentage by simply reusing plastic bags or not using plastic bags at all, recycling your aluminium cans, composting your food waste…There are thousands of simple - and affordable - possibilities for recycling. Imagine just how much better it would be for the environment if that plastic bottle had been recycled instead of thrown it out. When I realized what difference this could make, I stopped using disposable bottles altogether, and got a proper, reusable drink bottle instead. And you can