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BE PART OF THE SOLUTION, NOT THE POLLUTION
Help clean our beautiful planet by tracking, identifying, preventing and/or cleaning the plastic waste for which we are partly responsible to end up in nature or our oceans. Let's picture a new world without plastic pollution.
PLASTIC BOTTLES
prevented, removed,
identified, tracked, and/or recycled*
(the equivalence of)
216 903
PLACES IMPACTED WITH YOUR HELP
Our lands, oceans, rivers and lakes with a team on the field in Canada, United States, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Ghana, Columbia.
THE GREAT CLEAN-UP MISSION
Give Back to Nature's Great Clean-Up Mission is to empower action against the global health crisis of plastic pollution through science, education, reducing waste, reviving lives, and restoring nature's balance.
Your contributions subsidize the ethical tracking, recovery & safe disposal of plastic waste that sadly often ends up overflowing our landfills and spilling into our rivers and oceans.
It will also improve the conditions of informal waste picker colonies by providing education subsidies, health insurance, sanitation, and formal job opportunities.
It is one thing to clean-up the problem we have created but more importantly, we need to prevent the mess from happening in the first place. As a society, we must use less plastic, to begin with in order to tackle the waste already being created.
Let's lead the movement that will define a generation, on the path to a sustainable future based on zero-waste culture and circular economies. Together, we can change the way the world uses and discards plastic. Together, we can create a new tomorrow.
GIVE BACK BY
CONTRIBUTING TO THIS CAUSE MONTHLY
Interested in contributing to Give Back to Nature on a monthly basis? Choose your preferred monthly subscription. Whether you choose to track, identify, prevent and or remove the equivalence of 10 or 25 000 plastic bottles from polluting our environment, every single one counts in making a difference.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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REDUCE YOUR PLASTIC FOOTPRINT
What is my plastic footprint?
An enormous amount of plastic makes its way into the trash. Every day, it's estimated that the average person in North America throws away approximately half of a pound of plastic, totaling approx 185 pounds a year. Let's multiply that by 360 million (an approximation of the population of the U.S. and Canada), and that’s over 6 660 000 000 (six billion, six hundred sixty million) lbs of plastic waste per year.
Given that the average person in North America waste approx 185 lbs of plastic per year and their average life expectancy is around 80 years this would mean that on average, each individual will throw away over 14 000 lbs of plastic during their lifetime. That's your plastic footprint!
If you would want to offset your lifetime plastic footprint.
Let's do the Math
If we take into account that the average weight of a single-serve PET plastic bottle (half-liter) 16.9-ounce is approximately 9.25 grams and that there are 453.5 grams in a pound that means that 1 Lb of plastic would contain the equivalence of approx 49 plastic bottles. For you to understand the magnitude of this problem, this would mean that each individual in North America would waste the equivalence of 686 000 single-serve plastic bottles in their lifetime. WOWZERS!!!
Please remember that these are estimated and will vary from one individual to another. In the end, there is nothing better than conscious living by using the Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle–as a framework for reducing plastic waste in the environment