The World-Changing Effects on Lands and Oceans The oceans and land is getting filled with harmful plastic every day,because of the actions we are taking; That’s why we, as a grade 7 community, have came up with 10 monthly challenges to make sure that our earth isn’t a giant landfill. The month monthly challenge is a year-round goal where every month we provide a challenge that the public of North Vancouver can complete. By completing these challenges, we hope to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in our landfills and oceans. Every month we will target a different plastic group or lifestyle choice to ensure we are able to take on the plastic epidemic from as many different areas by the end of the year as we can. These areas include focusing on either using re-purposing, recycling, or reducing for an entire month. By doing these challenges we hope to change our communities mindset from unproductive and wasteful to being more aware about our plastic usage. Our short term goal for these challenges is to change the daily actions and mindset of North Vancouver residents. Instead of taking on an impossible task of trying to remove plastic completely from the world, we have come up with many many small actions one can take in their daily routine that will change the environment for the better.
We hope that your participation in each challenge will inspire you to continue making more sustainable choices in the long term, after the monthly challenge ends. Not only will these modifications fit into your lifestyle, but it will also help the planet and saves the future generations from having overflowing plastic islands. We believe that it's important to not only take action, but to also know and think about these choices that we make everyday and who they will be effecting too. We hope to see and hear about people participating in our challenges. Remember, when we change our mindset, we can change the world too. Our long term and major goal is to decrease the amount of plastic as much as possible. We hope that by the time the next generation lives, they won't be using or seeing as much plastic as we do today. We are the future and whatever we don’t do now, will get harder to fix. So the question remains: If not now, when?
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