Permaculture Northern Beaches is a part of 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 products for just one more use or sent to a 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 over 100,000 Australians and a million+ people worldwide stepping up in Plastic Free July www.plasticfreejuly.org