The 54th Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 every year, and various grand environmental protection actions will be launched to inspire all countries to respond together. Taiwan's Earth Day website has also established "One more plastic is worse than one less plastic" to call on everyone to take practical action and participate. In particular, this year's theme hopes that before finding a solution to replace plastic materials, we hope that through continuous initiatives, plastic life can be ended as soon as possible.
The origin of Earth Day
The origin of Earth Day can be traced back to an oil well explosion off the coast of the United Nations in 1969, which resulted in the death of more than 10,000 marine creatures and caused serious pollution of 56 kilometers of beaches, which in turn attracted global attention to environmental issues. At that time, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson and Denis Hayes organized campus activities and launched Earth Day. The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970. This movement promoted the establishment of the "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency", led to the passage of many environmental protection bills in the United States, and gave birth to the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972.
2024 World Earth Day Annual Theme
「"Planet vs. Plastics | Earth and Plastics"This environmental movement is an appeal to all people on earth, asking everyone to take immediate action to end the harm caused by plastic and protect the health of all living things on the earth. "—KATHLEEN ROGERS Earth Day Chairman
The 2024 annual theme "Earth and Plastic" makes a firm call for the goal of "ending plastic for the health of humans and the planet" and requires reducing plastic production by 60% by 2040. The ultimate goal is to give the next generation a plastic-free future.
Figure 1. Main visual of World Earth Day 2024 - 60 X 40 (Picture source: EARTH.ORG)
Echoing the decision to formulate a legally binding Global Plastics Pact in December 2024
The 2024 World Earth Day is currently calling for the reduction of 60% plastic production by 2040, 60 X 40. The appeal hopes:
- Raise public awareness of the dangers plastic poses to the health of humans, animals and all biodiversity, and demand more research into the health effects of plastic, including making any and all information about its effects available to the public;
- Rapidly phase out all single-use plastics by 2030 and meet the phase-out commitments in the United Nations Global Plastics Pact by 2024;
- Call for policies to end the large amounts of plastic produced by fast fashion during its production and use to end its scourge;
- Invest in innovative technologies and materials to build a plastic-free world.
End plastic and create a PCR cycle chain
An average of 1 million plastic bags are produced every minute in the world, and plastic particles have penetrated into every corner of human life, and traces were even found in the placenta of pregnant women in 2020.
Before plastic disappears completely, Carbon Recycling Materials (CRAM) is committed to promoting recycled plastic to achieve the goal of net zero.
The reason why recycled plastic is important is that through the process of reuse, it can effectively "convert plastic life", promote resource utilization, prevent the production of new materials from continuously increasing the load on the earth, effectively create value, and avoid generating more waste. We are committed to building a more complete sustainable supply chain for our customers, maximizing the use of resources, and responding to Earth Day together!
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