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Project - Raising Awareness About Plastic Pollution |
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by Soyeon Cho | 06-02-2019 22:25
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In my previous report, I discussed the issue of plastic pollution in South Korea. To summarize, millions of plastic products produced around the world are accumulating as plastic waste, and South Korea, in particular, has seen trends of increased packaging and disposable products. After China’s announcement that it would not accept plastic imports from countries like South Korea, the South Korean government has tried to build a sustainable model of reducing plastic waste by encouraging recycling and planning to provide more support to recycling centers, given the air and water pollution caused by plastic waste and the accumulation of microplastic in the body. However, feeling that more efforts were needed to directly plastic would cut down on the amount of plastic consumed, I led the Upper School part of a school-wide “No Plastic is Fantastic” campaign, as a student representative of the school committee focused on sustainability and the leader of the Upper School eco-club. Our main objective was to raise awareness about how to reduce the consumption of plastic in our daily lives. We did so by publishing an awareness video that had characters (acted by students) learning about the topic from a Plastic Waste Detective, with the slogan “No Plastic is Fantastic.” This was especially popular among the young students and is still played on digital screens around the school, where hundreds of students view them every day. Also, after a fundraiser to raise awareness about an NGO called Bye Bye Plastic Bags, which is an organization founded by the Wijsen sisters that promotes youth action towards reducing plastic, we helped promote the installation of water fountains that kept track of how many disposable-plastic-water-bottle-equivalent amounts of water were given out and collected data from the water bottle equivalent readings for each water fountain. Once we collect enough data about water fountain use, our plan is to analyze how much water students and teachers get from the water fountains every day (that otherwise could have been coming from disposable plastic water bottles and present our findings. As the culmination of our project, we plan to present what we have learned about plastic in a youth conference later this year, in order to further share our experiences and help motivate other young people to make changes to their daily habits. Yet who knows? By sharing these ideas with the Tunza Eco-Generation community and abroad, our awareness and actions about plastic can extend beyond the project into our everyday lives. “Water Bottle Filling Stations Showing Number of Bottles Saved.” U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, 2012, www.boston.va.gov/images/BottleFillngStation.jpg. |
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8 Comments
Hello Soyeon
With China's declaration on plastic wastes and the changing trend on plastic usage, our nation also has been going through changes on this matter and I do hope that in the near future, things could get in to shape.
Thanks for running the “No Plastic is Fantastic!”
Green cheers :)
Posted 11-02-2019 00:44
Wow, lots of feedbacks with sincerity up here :)
Thanks to So Yeon, though she is really busy with school curriculum and other schedules, she is always doing best to introduce South Korea's ongoing environmental issues to us.
Concerning anti-plastic challenges of SK, it is true SK was directly 'hit' by China's abandonment on importing plastic waste and recycling them. Not expecting such strict embargo on waste management, SK struggled a lot to face tons of plastic waste piling up in many regions. However, it is also right time and opportunity for SK to develop its own skills and systematic revision upon existent plastic waste management.
Thanks a lot for your report!
Posted 11-02-2019 00:17
Hyy,
Plastic pollution is a problem of unplanned urbanization, and policy level fault(which i believe) here at nepal.
Happy that energetic youths are involved for mitigation.
Posted 07-02-2019 20:07
Hi Soyeon,
One of the best ways to inform the masses of the threat plastic pose to our environment I'd through well-organised campaigns- which you have done.
I hope you will achieve your objective in South Korea and beyond.
Thanks for the report.
Posted 07-02-2019 16:45
“No Plastic is Fantastic”, Bye Bye Plastic Bags is great fancy quote to attract other. Yeah S.Korea has adopted so good policy that the world need to know and so glad to know about your project. Nepal is also doing similar kind of Project and some of the amazing leaders are also in this eco-gen family.
Posted 07-02-2019 12:54
Hello Soyeon! I really liked your idea! And the name of the company is very creative and attractive!
I wish success to all your endeavors! Thanks for sharing the news.
Posted 07-02-2019 06:33
Plastic Pollution is a great problem and awareness to people about how to reduce, reuse and recycle definitely helps to reduce this problem to the great extent. I ham also trying to aware children about Plastic Pollution during my school campaign too.
Congratulations on your event and thank you foe writing a beautiful report about it.
We hope to see you conduct many more campaigns.
Keep up with your work.
Best Wishes from Nepal
Green Cheers :) :)
Yours,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 07-02-2019 01:01
Hello Soyeon Cho
Namaste
I am very happy with your project and thank you for your such a beautiful program
I am also running a campaign named as Environment Conservation and Pollution Awareness Campaign ECPAC 'Together We Can'
We are giving ourr best to make this environment better and healthy.
Keep working for better environment and healthy earth
Thank you for your report. :)
Posted 06-02-2019 22:37