Help us reduce plastic from our communities and wild places
For All of Us
Plastic Solutions is leveraging the power of Rotary to develop a global network to rethink and influence how we create, use, and dispose of plastic.
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Use Plastic Solution’s categories to help think about what type of project your Club is interested in developing.
(Watch for inspirational examples in the near future!)
Cleanup Activities – Gateway events to energize Club members, launch community collaborations, create awareness, and lead to more impactful activities.
Data Collection – Adds a layer of data gathering to cleanup projects through global data collection apps such as Literati or Clean Swell, or through research collaborations.
Landfill / Incineration Diversion – Projects that reduce plastic use, or Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot and Zero Waste
Economic Development – Plastic waste projects with job creation/humanitarian components.
Individual Behavior Change – Encourages individuals to reduce plastic use through and may use education campaigns, pledges, usage calculators.
Systemic and Global Change – Manufacturing, Regulatory, Taxation and Advocacy Programs that identify and address root causes of plastic waste.
From the Blog
Eco Friendly Bricks
It is not news to anyone that there is A LOT of plastic on Earth. Much of this plastic is dubbed “single use”, meaning it is only used once before it is thrown away.
Why recycling isn’t the answer to plastic pollution problem
While recycling is in last place of the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” mantra, it seems to get top billing in policy making, headlines and behavior change.
How to change things
Change can be difficult, and in the book “Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard”, authors Chip and Dan Heath lay out the rules of the road for creating sustainable change.
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