This yr, the worldwide statement of Earth Day goals to sort out one of many globe’s largest ongoing issues: plastics. From quick style to meals containers, the prevalence of plastic in our surroundings has grown explosively in simply ten years. Earth Day 2024 hopes to sluggish that progress, sounding the decision for a 60% discount in plastic manufacturing by the yr 2040. The theme, Planet vs Plastics, calls to “advocate for widespread consciousness on the well being danger of plastics, quickly part out all single-use plastics, urgently push for a powerful UN Treaty on Plastic Air pollution, and demand an finish to quick style.”
Throughout the globe, Earth Day 2024 campaigns and initiatives, just like the Nice World Cleanup, act as shows of collective motion for the sake of our planet. In keeping with the President of EarthDay.org, Kathleen Rogers, relating to plastic air pollution, efforts to deal with this “scourge” are missing.
The Planet vs. Plastics marketing campaign is a name to arms, a requirement that we act now to finish the scourge of plastics and safeguard the well being of each residing being upon our planet.
-Kathleen Rogers, President, EarthDay.org
“The phrase surroundings means what surrounds you. Within the case of plastics we now have turn out to be the product itself – it flows by way of our bloodstream, adheres to our inner organs, and carries with it heavy metals identified to trigger most cancers and illness,” stated Rogers. “Now this once-thought wonderful and helpful product has turn out to be one thing else, and our well being and that of all different residing creatures hangs within the stability.”
Earth Day 2024 in Belize
Picture by the Belize Audubon Society
Usually praised as a pacesetter in conservation, Belize isn’t any stranger to sustainability. This yr, and past Earth Day, loads of organizations are placing within the work wanted to see impactful modifications in our world: from Fragments of Hope tackling coral bleaching to the Belize Audubon Society’s “Greening Throughout Belize” marketing campaign.
