Happy World Environment Day 2018!
“On World Environment Day, the message is simple: reject single-use plastic. Refuse what you can’t re-use. Together, we can chart a path to a cleaner, greener world.” — Secretary-General, António Guterres
The United Nations, aware that the protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue, which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, designated 5 June as World Environment Day. The celebration of this day provides us with an opportunity to broaden the basis for an enlightened opinion and responsible conduct by individuals, enterprises and communities in preserving and enhancing the environment. Since it began in 1974, it has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in more than 100 countries.
“Beat Plastic Pollution”
Each World Environment Day is organized around a theme that focuses attention on a particularly pressing environmental concern. The theme for 2018, “Beat Plastic Pollution,” is a call to action for all of us to come together to combat one of the great environmental challenges of our time. The theme invites us all to consider how we can make changes in our everyday lives to reduce the heavy burden of plastic pollution on our natural places, our wildlife — and our own health. While plastic has many valuable uses, we have become over-reliant on single-use or disposable plastic — with severe environmental consequences.
This World Environment Day UN Environment is asking you, companies and civil society groups, to take a concrete action to Beat Plastic Pollution. Let’s all help to clean up our environment. You too can join the movement when you do the following on a daily basis:
- Reduce, reuse, recycle or refuse plastic.
- Avoid littering and stop others from doing it too.
- Not burning plastic; when you burn it you also pollute the air.
- Finding sustainable substitutes and using them.
Bonus: You can use your plastic for arts and crafts instead of dumping them irresponsibly.
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