One day a week no plastic consumption and no plastic waste!

Plastic Tuesday is not an evolutionary worldwide movement. On plastic free Tuesday, we skipped plastic to reduce plastic footprints. This means that we do not buy plastic or plastic ones. No plastic ones are used. After use it must be thrown away. Therefore, plastic packaging does not have bananas, plastic bags, or take-out coffee on vinyl cups.

Plastics can damage our health and the environment. In many cases, plastics are thrown away once they are used. Carrots, bananas and other fruits and vegetables are wrapped in plastic and they already have a perfect (edible) package! Please participate in no plastic on Tuesday to reduce plastic consumption. Please click "About" to read more

We talk about marine pollution caused by plastic products; the main sources of our sea plastic waste are plastic bags and plastic packaging materials. These particles are large in size and are decomposed into plastic particles of 5 mm size called microplastic, causing oceanic microplastic contamination. There are various recommended methods for recycling plastic waste, but not all waste can be recycled, and not all countries can adjust these technologies. Because of the durability of the plastic it continues to take a very long time to deteriorate resulting in plastic dumping as part of the landfill and as the end of the river and eventually reaching the ocean

Most plastic waste comes from developing countries. Rapid population growth and expansion of the middle class mean that plastic consumption is growing faster than the ability to handle plastic waste, so most of the excess will disappear in the ocean. The largest producer of plastic waste is China and Indonesia. As part of the solution, we need to establish an international support program to develop waste management and recycling infrastructure. In December 2017, the United Nations Environment Conference adopted a global goal to stop the discharge of plastic to the ocean. Establish an international agreement implementation framework with reliable goals and time as a follow-up to ensure mapping of marine waste sources and to increase market responsibility to prevent new diffusion and strengthening of global waste management Should be.

Due to economic growth and changes in consumption patterns, worldwide plastic waste is rapidly increasing. According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) (2009), today's worldwide plastic consumption has increased from 5 million tons in the 1950s to 100 million tons. According to the Natural Resource Protection Council (NRDC) (2008), Americans use 100 billion plastic shopping bags each year to process and generate a large amount of waste. - Millions of plastic bags deliver goods to consumer supermarkets and shops, they are also cheap, light, strong, easy to carry, and in many cases free. The most commonly used shopping bag is made of high density polyethylene (HDPE). This type is used in most supermarkets and shops. After using these bags, they are usually landfilled finally or stacked up as garbage and only about 3% of plastic bags are recycled annually (Planet Ark, 2011)