- Jul 1, 2018
- 2 min read

A-Z ALTERNATIVES FOR PLASTIC FREE LIVING

Featured from PlasticFreeJuly.org

JOIN THE CHALLENGE AND ‘CHOOSE TO REFUSE’ SINGLE-USE PLASTIC DURING JULY.

Imagine a world without plastic waste. That’s our mission along with Plastic Free July – to build a global movement that dramatically reduces plastic use and improves recycling, worldwide.

The plastic bottles, bags and takeaway containers that we use just for a few minutes use a material that is designed to last forever.

These plastics:

break up, not break down – becoming permanent pollution
have low rates of recycling (only 9% of all plastics ever made have been recycled) and are mostly downcycled (made into low grade product for just one more use) or sent to landfill
‘escape’ from bins, trucks, events etc. to become ‘accidental litter’
end up in waterways and the ocean – where scientists predict there will be more tonnes of plastic than tonnes of fish by 2050
transfer to the food chain – carrying pollutants with them
increase our eco-footprint – plastic manufacturing consumes 6% of the world’s fossil fuels

Every bit of plastic ever made still exists and in the first 10 years of this century the world economy produced more plastic than the entire 1900's!