Campaign Plan

Juhu Beach in the Monsoons

1020 Truckloads of plastic bagswere lifted off the beachlast year - 2007. This yearwe’re still counting !

How do these bags get here?

In Mumbai60% who live in slums tie their wastein plastic shopping bags and tossit into the nullah every day.

40% middle-class use them as bin liners or just throw them into the garbage can.One bag per family means:14/5 m x 365 = 1 billion bags pa

Bags find their way into the sea via drain

and sewage pipes

Journey tothe Dump

(via the Beach!)

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How the nullahs carry their cargo to the sea

Plastic bags account for over 10 percent of the debris washed up on the

U.S. coastline

- National Marine Debris Monitoring Program

which eventually contaminate soils and waterways

- CNN.com/tecnhology November 16, 2007

Nearly 200 different species of sea life including whales, dolphins, seals and

turtles die due to plastic bags

- World Wildlife Fund Report 2005

So…

What do we do?

If we use a cloth bag, we can save 6 bags a week

That's 24 bags a month

That's 288 bags a year

That's 22,176 bags in ONE person’s average life time

Mumbai generates 300 crore plastic bags every

year

Bangladesh has banned plastic bags

- MSNBC.com March 8, 2007

In 2005 Rwanda banned plastic bags

- Associated Press

Israel, Canada, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Taiwan, and Singapore  have also banned or are moving toward banning the plastic bag

- PlanetSave.com February 16, 2008

China has banned free plastic bags

- CNN.com/asia January 9, 2008

Plastic shopping bags are made from polyethylene: a thermoplastic made from oil

- CNN.com/tecnhology November 16, 2007

China will save 37 million barrels of oil per year with their ban of free plastic bagsthat’s US $4.6 billion at today’s rates !

- Reuters, June 2, 2008

Our immediate gain ?Freedom from Garbage and a

Clean Environment

So what do we do?

Action•Carry this message to•Housing Societies•Schools•Colleges•Rotary Clubs•Promote canvas/jute shopping bags•Shop to shop campaign to stop giving plastic bags

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Posters

Resolution

Resolved that:

The Mumbai Municipal Corporation amend the BMC Act to prohibit all shops and establishments in Mumbai from distributing or selling carry/shopping bags made from any plastic polymer or non-biodegradable material