World Environmental Day - Thursday 5 June 2025
Today is World Environmental Day and this year they are calling for collective action to tackle plastic pollution. Please see some facts below.
For our part to support this important day, please would you find 3 – 5 minutes to complete this attached WWF Footprint calculator. I think you will find this quite interesting about how you live your life, which links into work but mainly shows your carbon footprint with tips of how to reduce it. Completing this calculator and sharing the data with colleagues, forms a good basis for a team discussion and helps towards our CSR accreditation, showing we are sharing and learning together.
Did you know that the most problematic plasters are usually the common ones, the ones we all use, sometimes on a daily basis, such as:
Plastic pollution is a big problem because:
- Plastic particles can slow the growth of a microscopic marine algae, which is the base of aquatic food webs. Also fish often mistakenly eat plastic products, filling their stomachs with indigestible shards that cause them to starve to death.
- Plastic often breaks down into tiny fragments which can build up in the human body. These microplastics have been found in livers and other organs and even breast milk.
- Plastic throughout its life cycle also contributes to climate change and was responsible for more than 3% of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions in 2020.
A global treaty is being negotiated to end plastic pollution, we can try and make a very small difference but choosing not to buy it, reusing it and recycling (in the correct bins 😉)