Welcome to another @culturestrike editorial cartoon! Last week, @newsweek published an article title
Welcome to another @culturestrike editorial cartoon! Last week, @newsweek published an article titled “Humans Have Produced 9 Billion Tons of Plastic Throughout History” (to read article: bit.ly/9billiontons). Half of all the plastic ever produced by human kind has been produced in the last 13 years, the vast majority of which people use for a very short time or for single use! The vast majority of plastic ends up in landfills or somewhere in our environment, particularly in the ocean. One study has found that approximately 270,000 tons of plastic are floating atop the ocean surface, with millions of more tons on the ocean floor! Of the 9 billion tons of plastic produced, only 9% has ever been recycled. It takes a significant amount of energy and resources to make plastic. For instance,17 million barrels of oil are used per year to make the bottles for bottled water (enough oil to fill a million cars for one year), and it takes THREE times the water to make a bottle as it does to fill it! So how do we stop poisoning our environment with plastic so that we don’t end up in a scene like that of “Idiocracy?” Here are five easy cut-backs that you, as an individual, can make to stagnate your reliance on plastic: 1. Stop using plastic straws! 500 million are used and thrown away EACH DAY! 2. Say no to plastic bags at grocery stores! Get you some reusable cloth bags! 3. No more plastic cutlery. 4. NOOO plastic water bottles! Get yourself a reusable water bottle! 5. Ixnay on the styrofoam containers! Styrofoam is not recyclable and is terrible for the environment. Our reliance on plastic is something in our culture that we can curb. If we don’t, we can very well turn our home into a giant plastic dump, as we definitely have the ability to cover this planet with layers of plastic several times over. Artwork by @juliosalgado83. Blurb written by @eslvis. #culturestrike #art4change #climatejustice #environmentaljustice -- source link
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