Permaculture Northern Beaches joins the Plastic Free July challenge - Join Us!

The plastic bottles, bags and takeaway containers that we use for just a few minutes use a material that is designed to last forever. Every bit of plastic ever made still exists!
These plastics:

• Break up, not break down – becoming permanent pollution

• Are mostly made into low-grade product for just one more use or sent to landfill

• End up in waterways and the ocean – where scientists predict there will be more tons of plastic than tons 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

Be part of the solution, by taking up these habits:

• Refusing plastic bags and packaging (choose your own alternatives)

• Reducing packaging where possible (opt for refills, remember your reusable shopping bags)

• Refusing plastics that escape as litter (e.g. straws, takeaway cups, utensils, balloons)

• Recycling what cannot be avoided by the use of alternatives.

Register to join 100,000 Australians and a million+ people worldwide stepping up in Plastic Free July www.plasticfreejuly.org