How to Combat Air Pollution for World Environment Day
World Environment Day is coming! June 5 is a global day to shine a spotlight on efforts to preserve our planet. Small, individual changes may seem like they don’t do much in the grand scheme of life, but each choice we make to help protect the environment is a new opportunity to make a ripple effect that can affect change on a big scale.
Reducing Plastic in the Wild
In 2018, World Environment Day focused on reducing plastic consumption, especially single use plastics, whenever possible. Some highlights from the 2018 campaign include:
The Indian government committed to ban all single use plastics by 2022.
Major news outlets including BBC News, The New York Times, The Daily Mail, Xinhua, and The Guardian, promoted the World Environment Day Organization’s plastics report, putting the news about plastics front and center in a global way.
Several companies (Woolworths), governments (Nigeria and Honduras), and organizations (the International Olympic Committee) committed to reducing plastic pollution.
Over 500,000 tweets made #WorldEnvironmentDay the number one trending tag, and the #BeatPlasticPollution tag also went viral, especially in China, where it was the top trending hashtag on Chinese social media platform Weibo.
Read more about the reach of the 2018 campaign to beat plastic pollution on the World Environment Day website here!
