Goal EndPlasticSoup

Goal EndPlasticSoup

By 2050 there is no more plastic soup in the oceans, seas, no more plastic waste in our lakes, rivers, forests, parks and streets.

Rotary, Rotaract and Interact Clubs worldwide work together to solve and prevent the plastic pollution problem.

Take action and support projects  throughout the full cycle: Refuse, Redesign, Reduce, Reuse, Recover and Recycle to establish a circular economy.

You can start today

Use less plastic every day and pick up a piece of plastic waste every day from the street, beach or waterfront. Together with 1.2 million Rotarians (and family, friends) we are about to start reducing plastic waste! Tell your family, friends and colleagues about the problem and join us.

Plastic pollution is a huge worldwide problem:

• Threatening our human health
• Killing animals and marine life
• Reducing biodiversity on land, in the air and in the sea
• Contributing to climate change: 10-13% of the CO2 emissions are due to the production and burning of plastics. This is more than the airline and shipping industry together.
• During disasters microplastics can spread diseases as bacteries can grow on plastic waste.
• Plastics never go away. Weathering, sunlight and wave action break down large pieces into small bits. This causes serious pollution. And, because plastic is non-biodegradable, the plastic soup kills marine life. The plastic is degenerating into ever smaller pieces to the point that we cannot see it anymore.
• Microplastics are entering our food chain, the fish we eat, the water we drink, the air we inhale.
• The plastics industry plans an increase of 4x – 5x more new plastics in the next 10 years.

We have to do something about it!

What is Plastic Soup?

• Plastic Soup is all plastic waste in our environment: on land, the air and in the waters.
• 80% of the plastic pollution on land floats into our oceans and seas by rivers and through the air.
• Plastic pollution comes from plastic that we throw away on the street, in rivers, parks, fishnets that are discarded, from washing synthetic clothing, brushing our teeth, etc. All these different types of plastic combined form the plastic soup in the seas.