Today is World Recycling Day.
We as humans consume way, way too much, and the worse part is how we discard the items, and what happens to it all.
As per the UN Sustainable Development Group:
♻ only 9% of all the plastic waste generated globally is recycled
🌱 79% ends up in landfills or in nature
🔥 12% is incinerated
Even if amazing organizations like the The Ocean Cleanup keep cleaning our oceans, with our consumption, and with the global #populationgrowth, we are not doing any progress, and it will probably just get worse with time.
I follow The Ocean Cleanup on Instagram and see their awesome work... just to have those rivers they clean accumulate #plasticpollution and other junk all over again in a matter of months, sometimes weeks. It's just endless!!
I once shared this post (in 2019), now, the population is 8+ billion!...:
"I'm one person in 7.7 Billion [now, 8+Billion!] people in the world.
I am not be able to make a huge difference on my own.
But every bag, straw, or single-use plastic I choose NOT to use, won't end in landfills, the oceans, or in the stomach of a whale, because of me."
We're already talking about #spacedebris, my goodness, can we take care of the #earth !!
#singleuseplastics #overconsumption #WorldRecyclingDay #bethechange #sustainablegoals #sustainablefuture
The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organization on a mission to rid the world's oceans of plastic.
As a non-profit, we are funded solely through individual and commercial donations. So, every piece of plastic we've cleaned up, every Interceptor deployment, and all our published open-sourced research is thanks to individuals like you.
Everyone can contribute to cleaner oceans. Now you can also easily fundraise - as an individual, as a team, or as a company - through bake sales, physical activity, your own cleanup initiatives, and more: https://lnkd.in/eaJhRYCQ.
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