This presentation has 2 goals: explaining the disastrous environmental impact of single use plastics; showing what any individual and business can do everyday to stop plastic pollution.
www.fillgood.co
Fillgood provides environmentally friendly home and body products through a distribution model that takes plastics packaging out of the mix.
13. Turning off the tap
Changing our habits, step by step
Simple things we can do everyday
14. Recycling is not a long term solution
COMPLICATED AND CONFUSING
Too many materials
Different rules from one city to another
Complex packaging
WE THROW AWAY TOO MUCH
A very low demand for recycled plastic
AN INDUSTRY IN CRISIS
Higher costs for recycling
Cheap oil prices = cheap new plastic
EXPORTED PLASTIC WASTE TO ASIA
No control over what happens over there
15. Throw Away vs. Reuse: energy, materials and water consumption
Oil production
Transport
Refinery
Transport
Plastic manufacturing
Transport
Plastic fork manufacturing
Transport
Distribution
Transport
Retail Store
Transport
Use
Trash
Transport
Landfill
Ore mining
Transport
Stainless steel
production
Transport
Fork manufacturing
Transport
Distribution
Transport
Retail Store
Transport
Use
Wash
16. 35 billions / y 40 billions / y 500 millions / d
100 billions / y 180 billions / y
IN THE US ONLY….
19. Learn more
Bea Johnson : www.zerowastehome.com
Beth Terry : https://myplasticfreelife.com/
Kathryn Kellogg: www.goingzerowaste.com
The Story of Stuff Project : http://storyofstuff.org/
Facebook groups : Zero Waste San Francisco, Journey to Zero Waste, Zero Waste Heroes, Zero
Waste Home
www.fillgood.co
20. We do not inherit the
Earth from our
ancestors;
We borrow it from
our children.
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