It is International Plastic Free Day, introduced by Free The Ocean (FTO). The goal? Avoid using single plastic use for one day (at least). Don't buy it. Refuse it. Don't use it. As explained on the website, "If every person in the world stopped using one single-use piece of plastic for one day, we’d avoid over 7.6 BILLION items of plastic on that single day." The occurrence aims to make people aware of how much plastic they usually use and how much it is omnipresent in our lives. And hopefully, it will show them that not using plastic is doable!
This is different from International Plastic Bag Free Day which is observed every year on 3rd July or Skip the Straw Day which is held on the fourth Friday in February or Plastic Free July, all of which are days to remember the impact of single-use plastics and efforts to stem the tide of litter and waste.
At school we have Plastic Free days for lunches and students are encouraged to use lunch containers again and again, even the school canteen lunches come in non plastic containers that are returned to the canteen and washed. So the students at school are very aware of 'the concept of one-use plastic'. When they read books about ocean pollution they are horrified and come to talk to you about what they have read.
If you put the word 'plastic' in my blog Search bar, lots of entries will come up with suggestions of books to read. Here's just a selection of books you'll find in the library.
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